Bosphorus Global

The Center is dedicated to bringing different groups of society together to address national and international political, social, cultural and economic issues and come up with sustainable solutions.

Thus, BG aims to establish effective cooperation and coordination among academics, the representatives of leading media and non-governmental organizations, politicians, bureaucrats, artists and businesspeople.

BG is primarily dedicated to generate public(ity) for political and social actors where each one of them can express their opinions and negotiate issues with one another under equal conditions.

The Center aims to restore political institutions through providing publicity that is going to strengthen democracy via creating plurality and diversity.

We believe that the current political landscape of Turkey makes sense in the light of a historical-sociological perspective that can uncover the primary tensions: a polarity emerged between the center and the periphery, and both politics (state institutions) and the people have been divided based on this polarity since the beginning of the transition process from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.

The center has been occupied by the military-bureaucratic authority and capital owners subsidized by the state, while the Sunni religious majority, Kurds, non-Muslims, Alevis and local craftsmen were alienated and abandoned in the periphery.