Dr. Salim Aykut Ozturk

S. Aykut Ozturk is a political and visual anthropologist with a PhD from UCL Anthropology Department. He has extensive research experience in various displacement contexts around the world, including Jerusalem, London and Istanbul. His first book "Mobility and Armenian Belonging in Contemporary Turkey: Migratory Routes and the Meaning of the Local" (London: IB Tauris) is forthcoming in 2022. He is currently working on a second book, "An Island that is No More: Everyday Politics and Armenian Placemaking in Istanbul." He is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A New Center of Gravity for Armenians in Turkey?

There is a particular appeal of the extent of Armenian mobility and dispersion to non-Armenian audiences – including someone like…

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Patronizing Patterns

It seems we have two scenarios in making sense of life—at least there is the constant imposition of them. For…

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