Özgür Tomakin

Özgür Tomakin currently works at TRT World Research Centre. He has worked as a producer at Al-Jazeera Turk and received his BA from the Political Science and International Relations Department of Boğaziçi University.

At the moment, he is a graduate student in the same department of İstanbul Şehir University. His research area is the democratic transition and political movements in North Africa. He lives in Tunisia.

Items by Özgür Tomakin

- April 17, 2017 Özgür Tomakin
Tunisia is localising its democratic transition to further the aims of the revolution

Following the legislative and presidential polls in 2014, Tunisia has eventually announced that its municipal elections will be held on 17 December. The date is highly symbolic, as the intention is to strengthen the democratic transition on the anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazzi, which sparked the Tunisian...
- March 24, 2017 Özgür Tomakin
Tunisia’s democratic transition has some achievements but still faces obstacles

Despite the intoxicating excitement of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it turned to winter very quickly in many countries. Today, only Tunisia seems to be a success story in terms of maintaining its democratic transition, even if there are many obstacles in the...

Özgür Tomakin

Items by Özgür Tomakin

Tunisia is localising its democratic transition to further the aims of the revolution

Tunisia’s democratic transition has some achievements but still faces obstacles

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