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

A black-and-white portrait on a worn wall next to a closed door and partially covered object draped in a white cloth.

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