Cihan Eroglu
Cihan Eroglu is from Istanbul, Turkey, and is a final year Politics and International Relations student at the University of Manchester but is taking a gap year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He has been interested in politics, history and economics from his early years and has worked on various platforms to further enrich his understanding of these subjects.
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Erdonomics: The inside story of Turkey’s strange economic system
(5 minute read) Ever more Turks are suffering serious poverty due to the economic policy of President Erdogan, argues Cihan Eroglu.
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Coffee’s seditious past and other curious facts from Turkey’s history of drink
(5 minute read) If you visit Turkey, be ready to drink a lot, Cihan Eroglu explains. Read on to learn about coffee's seditious past.
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Mosque, church or secular space? Hagia Sophia and the battle for modern Turkey
(6 minute read) When is a museum not a museum? When it was once a cathedral and then a mosque and is now a mosque again as a politician’s attempted ace card to revive his flagging fortunes. Cihan Eroglu reports.
