Turkey Book Talk

Turkey Book Talk #194 – Demet Aslı Çaltekin, assistant professor at Durham University’s Durham Law School, on “Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service” (Edinburgh University Press).

The conversation addresses the ubiquity of militarism and nationalism in Turkey, and the impact on people who refuse to do their compulsory military service.

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