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Turkuler Isiksel was born in Turkey but left to attend university in Edinburgh, later receiving her Ph.D. from Yale. Trained as a political theorist, she now teaches in the Department of Political Science and is the James P. Shenton assistant professor of the Core Curriculum. She is also a member of the Committee on Global Thought. Columbia News asked her to explain the situation after the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left the country in disarray. Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency, which would allow him and his cabinet to draft new laws and…
