Archive - Kültürkampf

2025 in review, 2026 ahead

it's that time of year again

Jan 2 • Selim Koru

December 2025

Istanbul 34.4 x Kültürkampf

A live recording with Hannah Lucinda Smith

Dec 23, 2025 • Selim Koru and Hannah Lucinda Smith

1:17:41

Livecast on Monday; my thoughts on succession; the great restructuring; word of the year; Ankara moves 55km westward; other links

Dec 20, 2025 • Selim Koru

Turkey, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison

Why do we keep comparing these two countries?

Dec 16, 2025 • Selim Koru and Nick Danforth

48:53

Remembering the Shah of Iran; the fall of an Islamist princeling; other things

Dec 14, 2025 • Selim Koru

On Cultural Muslims

How Muslim identity in the West is becoming more like Judaism

Dec 11, 2025 • Selim Koru

European defense; gambling in Turkey; how Turkey's EU accession might end soon; House of Dynamite; Erdoğan's rhetoric on Israel; other links

Dec 7, 2025 • Selim Koru and Ata Armağan

A Fictional Character Died 15 Years Ago. Millions Still Mourn Her

Forbidden Love remains Turkey's best TV show—and it's not even close

Dec 5, 2025 • Selim Koru and Müjge Küçükkeleş

November 2025

The CHP's choice; the regime perspective; the state of journalism; a talk at Boğaziçi University; other links

Nov 28, 2025 • Selim Koru and Ata Armağan

The Demographic Argument Erdoğan Won't Make

On demographic decline, Muslim Zion, and the dangers of policy by stealth

Nov 26, 2025 • Selim Koru

The CHP's shallowness; broken Turkey; the split in MAGA; thoughts of a British spymaster; the sound of Ottoman patriotism

Nov 21, 2025 • Selim Koru

What we talk about when we talk about Turkey

How English-language commentary shifted from 'Is Erdoğan democratic?' to 'Is Erdoğan necessary?'

Nov 18, 2025 • Selim Koru

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