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Murat Ergin

Associate Professor of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul

Murat Ergin is associate professor of sociology at Koç University in Istanbul. He is the author of ‘Is the Turk a White Man?’: Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity (2016).

Written by Murat Ergin

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essayNations and empires

Turkey’s hard white turn

In 20th-century Turkey, modernisers turned to eugenics and claims of an ancient Asian past to argue that Turks were white

Murat Ergin