Bilge Yesil
Biographic Data
| ID | 640229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilge Yesil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilge |
| FAMILY NAME | Yesil |
| SIGNATURE | YESIL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Srirupa Roy (2024) The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
InterAsian digitalities: Rethinking the digital and the global
This reflection piece highlights how the InterAsian digitalities framework advances an epistemology grounded in interconnectedness, with an emphasis on shared histories, infrastructures, and cultural practices across Asia. Methodologically, it promotes transregional, historically situated, and interdisciplinary approaches. Its key contribution lies in positioning Asia not as a peripheral case but as a dynamic site of theoretical innovation in med…
The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
International audience
Performing nationalist populism in Turkey: An exploration of anti-Western, anti-elite and Muslim conservative undercurrents
The growing body of research on populism has recently turned its attention towards global populisms, populist leaders and their political communication strategies. This article introduces a non-western perspective to the literature which has generally been dominated by European, Latin American and more recently North American contexts. The article analyses nationalist populism in Turkey as performed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan – the country’s ruling …
TurkeyIsNotAChicken: How Pro-government Netizens Explain the Coup Attempt to Western Audiences
In this article, I analyze pro- AKP actors’ grassroots communications in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt. I explore the Twitter participation of non-state actors in this momentous political event, with the specific aim of shaping western audiences’ understanding of the failed coup and countering western criticism of post-coup security measures. I do not evaluate pro- AKP netizens’ Twitter communications in terms of their effectiv…
Authoritarian Turn or Continuity? Governance of Media through Capture and Discipline in the AKP Era
Since coming to power in 2002, AKP has exerted a range of legal and financial pressures on critical media organisations and professionals, including acts of direct intervention. While the growing literature on Turkey's media system has explored the influence of political and economic pressures on media freedoms, recent developments necessitate a re-examination that tackles the upsurge of direct government intervention in the country's commercial …
Online Surveillance in Turkey: Legislation, Technology and Citizen Involvement
The AKP government has constructed an online surveillance regime (not to mention censorship) via various legal and technical means. This article analyzes the emergence and expansion of online surveillance within the context of the AKP’s authoritarian practices that are interwoven with its nationalist and populist politics. It begins with an overview of legal and technical initiatives aimed at enhancing online surveillance, data collection and ret…
Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
Investment and expansion have made Turkish media a transnational powerhouse in the Middle East and Central Asia. Yet tensions continue to grow between media outlets and the Islamist AKP party that has governed the country for over a decade. This book unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. The book focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's i…
Transnationalization of Turkish dramas: Exploring the convergence of local and global market imperatives
Since the mid-2000s, an ever-increasing number of Turkish dramas have been exported to several markets and commanded high prices and ratings. To explain the transnationalization of Turkish dramas, this article explores the political economic imperatives as opposed to the commonly cited cultural proximity thesis. Based on in-depth interviews with television producers, distributors and executives, it analyses the burgeoning of the Turkish productio…
Watching Ourselves: Video surveillance, urban space and self-responsibilization
Who said this is a Man's War?’: Propaganda, advertising discourse and the representation of war worker women during the Second World War
The Second World War required the employment of millions of new female workers and reallocation of those who already had been working to major war industries. As labour shortages reached critical p
Internet Café as Battlefield: State Control over Internet Cafés in Turkey and the Lack of Popular Resistance
Authoritarian Turn or Continuity? Governance of Media through Capture and Discipline in the AKP Era
Since coming to power in 2002, AKP has exerted a range of legal and financial pressures on critical media organisations and professionals, including acts of direct intervention. While the growing literature on Turkey's media system has explored the influence of political and economic pressures on media freedoms, recent developments necessitate a re-examination that tackles the upsurge of direct government intervention in the country's commercial …
Transnationalization of Turkish dramas: Exploring the convergence of local and global market imperatives
Since the mid-2000s, an ever-increasing number of Turkish dramas have been exported to several markets and commanded high prices and ratings. To explain the transnationalization of Turkish dramas, this article explores the political economic imperatives as opposed to the commonly cited cultural proximity thesis. Based on in-depth interviews with television producers, distributors and executives, it analyses the burgeoning of the Turkish productio…
Online Surveillance in Turkey: Legislation, Technology and Citizen Involvement
The AKP government has constructed an online surveillance regime (not to mention censorship) via various legal and technical means. This article analyzes the emergence and expansion of online surveillance within the context of the AKP’s authoritarian practices that are interwoven with its nationalist and populist politics. It begins with an overview of legal and technical initiatives aimed at enhancing online surveillance, data collection and ret…
Performing nationalist populism in Turkey: An exploration of anti-Western, anti-elite and Muslim conservative undercurrents
The growing body of research on populism has recently turned its attention towards global populisms, populist leaders and their political communication strategies. This article introduces a non-western perspective to the literature which has generally been dominated by European, Latin American and more recently North American contexts. The article analyses nationalist populism in Turkey as performed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan – the country’s ruling …
Who said this is a Man's War?’: Propaganda, advertising discourse and the representation of war worker women during the Second World War
The Second World War required the employment of millions of new female workers and reallocation of those who already had been working to major war industries. As labour shortages reached critical p
Internet Café as Battlefield: State Control over Internet Cafés in Turkey and the Lack of Popular Resistance
Internet Café as Battlefield: State Control over Internet Cafés in Turkey and the Lack of Popular Resistance
Who said this is a Man's War?’: Propaganda, advertising discourse and the representation of war worker women during the Second World War
The Second World War required the employment of millions of new female workers and reallocation of those who already had been working to major war industries. As labour shortages reached critical p
Watching Ourselves: Video surveillance, urban space and self-responsibilization
Transnationalization of Turkish dramas: Exploring the convergence of local and global market imperatives
Since the mid-2000s, an ever-increasing number of Turkish dramas have been exported to several markets and commanded high prices and ratings. To explain the transnationalization of Turkish dramas, this article explores the political economic imperatives as opposed to the commonly cited cultural proximity thesis. Based on in-depth interviews with television producers, distributors and executives, it analyses the burgeoning of the Turkish productio…
Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
Investment and expansion have made Turkish media a transnational powerhouse in the Middle East and Central Asia. Yet tensions continue to grow between media outlets and the Islamist AKP party that has governed the country for over a decade. This book unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. The book focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's i…
Online Surveillance in Turkey: Legislation, Technology and Citizen Involvement
The AKP government has constructed an online surveillance regime (not to mention censorship) via various legal and technical means. This article analyzes the emergence and expansion of online surveillance within the context of the AKP’s authoritarian practices that are interwoven with its nationalist and populist politics. It begins with an overview of legal and technical initiatives aimed at enhancing online surveillance, data collection and ret…
Authoritarian Turn or Continuity? Governance of Media through Capture and Discipline in the AKP Era
Since coming to power in 2002, AKP has exerted a range of legal and financial pressures on critical media organisations and professionals, including acts of direct intervention. While the growing literature on Turkey's media system has explored the influence of political and economic pressures on media freedoms, recent developments necessitate a re-examination that tackles the upsurge of direct government intervention in the country's commercial …
TurkeyIsNotAChicken: How Pro-government Netizens Explain the Coup Attempt to Western Audiences
In this article, I analyze pro- AKP actors’ grassroots communications in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt. I explore the Twitter participation of non-state actors in this momentous political event, with the specific aim of shaping western audiences’ understanding of the failed coup and countering western criticism of post-coup security measures. I do not evaluate pro- AKP netizens’ Twitter communications in terms of their effectiv…
Performing nationalist populism in Turkey: An exploration of anti-Western, anti-elite and Muslim conservative undercurrents
The growing body of research on populism has recently turned its attention towards global populisms, populist leaders and their political communication strategies. This article introduces a non-western perspective to the literature which has generally been dominated by European, Latin American and more recently North American contexts. The article analyses nationalist populism in Turkey as performed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan – the country’s ruling …
The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
International audience
InterAsian digitalities: Rethinking the digital and the global
This reflection piece highlights how the InterAsian digitalities framework advances an epistemology grounded in interconnectedness, with an emphasis on shared histories, infrastructures, and cultural practices across Asia. Methodologically, it promotes transregional, historically situated, and interdisciplinary approaches. Its key contribution lies in positioning Asia not as a peripheral case but as a dynamic site of theoretical innovation in med…
Srirupa Roy (2024) The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works)