Zappa Zamanlar IPC Special Series

In this series, which is published once a month on Aposto, we present the selected works of IPC and our reflections on them. The third bulletin in the series started with the question of how much the 2024 election year served democracy. First, with the participation of Tuğçe Erçetin and Cana Tülüş Türk, the program “Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?” was discussed, followed by a brief evaluation of the first days of Trump 2.0. Afterwards, possible developments in U.S.-Turkey relations were questioned. This section draws on Mercator-IPC Fellow Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami’s IPC-Mercator Analysis “Between International Turmoil and Trump 2.0, What’s Happening in U.S.-Turkey Relations?” and Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Mustafa Kutlay, and Fuat Keyman’s articles discussing the concept of strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in the multipolar era. The fourth bulletin, prepared with current research and evaluations from IPC, focuses on the limits of the multipolar international order and the election results in Germany. How will the increasingly pronounced multipolar world order and the early general elections in Germany affect the political balances of the coming period? What do the rise of the far right, the ruptures in global governance mechanisms, and the crisis of democracy tell us? In the fifth issue of Zappa Zamanlar IPC Special, we asked the question “Why did young people take to the streets?” and wrote about the loneliness and the uncertainty of the future, especially among young people, based on IPC’s program “Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?” with the participation of Emre Erdoğan and Nebi Sümer on April 17, 2025.