Ihsan Yilmaz
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Biography
Publications
Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Chair in Islamic Studies at Deakin University's Intercultural Faculty of Arts and Education.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Istanbul's Bogaziçi Üniversitesi and a Doctor of Philosophy, University of London,
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How Erdogan makes EU opprobrium work in his favour
Turkey's president Recep Erdogan wants to position the EU as the new (imagined) enemy of the nation
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EU-Turkey relations: A decade of reversals
The EU’s prestige, normative standards and soft power have been relentlessly eroded by the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.