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INTERVIEW. Historian Hamit Bozarslan warns of the consequences of Erdogan’s victory in the Turkish elections on May 14.
By Guillaume Perrier
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Hamit Bozarslan is a historian and political scientist, director of studies at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), in Paris. His research has mainly focused, for more than 30 years, on contemporary Turkey, violence in the Middle East and on the Kurdish question, he who comes from the Kurdish region of Diyarbakir, in eastern Turkey.
He defended his doctoral thesis in 1992, on currents of ideas in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1918) under the supervision of François Furet. A prolific author, he has since published numerous books: The time of the monsters (La Découverte, 2021), where he dissects the decade of violence that followed the Arab Spring, or even Anti-Democracy in the 21st Century (CNRS editions, 2021), in which he draws a parallel between diets with…