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My research focuses on the symbolic, ideological, and affective dimensions of political life. I work especially on nationalism, political thought, populism, the transformation of the Turkish right, migration governance, and digital politics. I am interested in how political meanings are produced, circulated, and contested in both institutional and mediated settings, and how Turkey-based research can contribute to broader international debates in political theory and contemporary political analysis.

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A selected and updated list of publications, research projects, and academic service. A full academic CV is available upon request.

Research projects↑ Top

1. 2023–24

   Researcher. Migration Preferences and Access to Public Services among the Displaced after the Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes: A Qualitative Study in Gaziantep and Sakarya. TÜBİTAK 1002.

Journal articles↑ Top

1. 2025

   Bulut, Yakup, and Onur Türkolmez. 2025. "An Evaluation of the Relationship between Postgraduate Education and Academic Quality in Turkey." Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Research 9(22): 616–626.

2. 2023

   Coşkun Tuna, Pınar, and Onur Türkolmez. 2023. "New Social Movements and Digital Activism." Journal of Public Administration and Policies 4(2): 211–240.

3. 2021

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2021. "Toward a Bourdieusian Theory of Nationalism: Nationalism as Symbolic Capital in the Conflict of Habitus and Symbolic Violence." Journal of Nationalism Studies 3(1).

4. 2020

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2020. "The Place of Religion in the Construction of National Identity: Early Islamist Approaches to Turkish Nationalism." Gaziantep University Journal of FEAS 2(2): 156–166.

5. 2020

   Aksoy, Abdulkadir, and Onur Türkolmez. 2020. "Inviting Democracy into the Digital Age: The Cambridge Analytica Scandal." Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies 3(1): 41–59.

6. 2020

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2020. "When Hegemonic Ideology Transforms: Turkish Nationalism and Kemalism as Popular Ideology." PESA International Journal of Social Research 6(1): 22–31.

7. 2017

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2017. "Did Putin Save Russia, or Did Russia Create Putin? A Reassessment of the Last Century." PESA International Journal of Social Research 3(2): 17–29.

8. 2014

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2014. "The Concept of Religious Nationalism and Religious Nationalism in Turkey." Bilgi 14(28): 35–56.

Books and edited volumes↑ Top

1. 2022

   Aksoy, Abdulkadir, and Onur Türkolmez, eds. 2022. Democracy: Theoretical and Contemporary. Çizgi Kitabevi.

2. 2021

   Şahin, Köksal, and Onur Türkolmez. 2021. State and Administration in Political Thought. Siyasal Kitabevi.

3. 2020

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2020. Nationalism against Nationalism: The Place of Nationalism in the Power Strategies of the Yön-Devrim Movement and Aydınlar Ocağı. Çizgi Kitabevi.

Book chapters↑ Top

1. 2025

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2025. "Political Unity in Post-Civil War Syria: An Evaluation through the State Theories of Ibn Khaldun and Carl Schmitt." In Migration, History and Society, edited by Zeynel Özlü. Paradigma Akademi.

2. 2025

   Bulut, Yakup, and Onur Türkolmez. 2025. "The Changing Role of Civil Society Organizations and Their Impact on Public Administration." In Post-Bureaucratic Transformation in Turkish Public Administration, edited by Abdullah Yılmaz and Duru Şahyar Akdemir. Sayda Yayınları.

3. 2023

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2023. "From Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism to Middle-Class Unease: A Reassessment of Kemalism in the Centenary." In 50th Anniversary Volume of Gaziantep University, edited by Mehmet Soğukömeroğulları, Yavuz Sinan Ulu, and İsmail Yılmaz. Gaziantep University Press.

4. 2023

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2023. "From Popular-Will Parliamentarism to Exceptional Authoritarianism: The Construction of a Schmittian Political Universe in the Turkish Right and Aydınlar Ocağı." In Political Representations in Turkish Political Life, Vol. 2, edited by İlhan Bilici. Tezkire Yayınları.

5. 2023

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2023. "A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Nationalism in Syria and Turkey." In Turkey-Syria: Shared Culture, Shared History, and Migration, edited by Zeynel Özlü, Yücel Karadaş, and İbrahim Özhazar. Gaziantep University Press.

6. 2022

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2022. "Hegel," "Leninism," and "Rousseau." In Encyclopedia of Political Science. Nobel.

7. 2022

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2022. "Debates on the Effects of New Populist Regimes on Democracy and Strategies for Exiting Populism." In Democracy: Theoretical and Contemporary. Çizgi Kitabevi.

8. 2017

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2017. "An Essay on the Changing Forms of Religiosity in the National Turkish Student Union." In The National Turkish Student Union in Its 100th Year, edited by Mahmut Hakkı Akın and Serkan Yorgancılar. Çizgi Kitabevi.

Selected conference papers↑ Top

1. 2018

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2018. "Is It Possible to Derive a Theory of Nationalism from Pierre Bourdieu? Beyond the Struggles of Nation-Formation." International Symposium on Strategic and Social Research, Istanbul.

2. 2017

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2017. "Transformations and Continuities from Neo-Marxism to Post-Marxism: A Comparison between Nicos Poulantzas and Pierre Bourdieu." International Congress on Political, Economic and Social Studies, Ankara.

3. 2016

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2016. "Nationalism as the Social Mediator of the Institutionalization of the Modern State in Turkey." 14th International Congress of Social Sciences in the Turkish World, Gostivar.

4. 2013

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2013. "The Transfer Superiority of the Deputy and the Crisis of Democracy." Kocaeli University Social Sciences Congress, Kocaeli.

5. 2012

   Türkolmez, Onur. 2012. "Freedom of Expression in Turkey and Changing Periodic Perceptions." 10th Graduate Conference of the Turkish Association of Political Sciences, Ankara.

Editorial roles↑ Top

1. 2025–

   Area Editor, Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

2. 2025–

   Area Editor, Gaziantep University Journal of FEAS

3. 2022–24

   Editor-in-Chief, Gaziantep University Journal of FEAS

4. 2022–24

   Area Editor, Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies

5. 2020–21

   Assistant Editor, Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies

6. 2015–18

   Assistant Editor, PESA International Journal of Social Research

Current projects↑ Top

• Contemporary Turkish nationalism and its symbolic transformation
• Populism and the ideological reconfiguration of the Turkish right
• Secular opposition nationalism and anti-refugee discourse in Türkiye
• Migration governance and public service access after the February 6 earthquakes
• Digital politics, conspiracy narratives, and political communication

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