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  1. Selective Humanitarianism in Asylum Policies: Yezidi Refugees in Germany and France

    Article • Nationalities Papers, November 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  2. They are Hiding the Truth and Plotting: Conspiracy Beliefs Among Latinos

    Article • The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics, April 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  3. Symbolic Megaprojects: Atatürk’s Mausoleum in Turkey and the Construction of Hegemony

    Article • Middle East Critique, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  4. Vineeta Yadav, Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 384p. $86.00 cloth.

    Article • Politics and Religion, February 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  5. All the Sultan’s Men: Regime Type, Insecurity, and the Shuffling of Governors

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  6. Beyond Collateral Damage: The Politics of Civilian Victimization in a Civil War

    Article • Global Studies Quarterly, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  7. The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities. By Isabel Käser. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288p. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, March 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  8. Mosul under ISIS: Eyewitness accounts of life in the Caliphate

    Article • Politics Religion & Ideology, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  9. Understanding insurgency: popular support for the PKK in Turkey

    Article • Turkish Studies, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  10. The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey

    Article • Development and Change, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  11. Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World. By Avital Livny. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $99.99 cloth.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  12. Overcoming “intimate hatreds”

    Article • May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  13. A conditional norm: chemical warfare from colonialism to contemporary civil wars

    Article • Third World Quarterly, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  14. Kurdish politics in post-2011 Syria: From fragmentation to hegemony

    Article • Mediterranean Politics, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  15. Revisiting the Religious Violence Thesis: Minorities in the Middle East

    Article • September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  16. Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. By Elhum Haghighat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 276p. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  17. A Path out of Patriarchy? Political Agency and Social Identity of Women Fighters

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  18. A Century of the Kurdish Question: Organizational Rivalries, Diplomacy, and Cross-Ethnic Coalitions

    Article • Ethnopolitics, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  19. A systematic comparison of several generations of jihadist foreign fighters.

    Article • Conflict Management and Peace Science, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  20. Ethnic Exclusion and Mobilization: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

    Article • Comparative Politics, January 2017, Comparative Politics

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  21. Why do people join a violent movement?

    Article • American Political Science Review, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  22. Electoral Behavior in Civil Wars: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

    Article • Civil Wars, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  23. Soft Power, Religion, and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East

    Article • Foreign Policy Analysis, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  24. Catholic and Muslim Human Rights Activism in Violent Internal Conflicts

    Article • Politics and Religion, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  25. Violence and nationalist mobilization: the onset of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey

    Article • Nationalities Papers, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  26. Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

    Article • Nationalities Papers, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sener Akturk, Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  27. Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy: Balancing European and Regional Interests

    Article • International Studies Perspectives, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexandru Grigorescu, Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  28. Democratic Struggles and Authoritarian Responses in Iran in Comparative Perspective

    Article • January 2013, Stanford University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  29. Trends and Characteristics of the Turkish Party System in Light of the 2011 Elections

    Article • Turkish Studies, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  30. Democracy promotion, authoritarian resiliency, and political unrest in Iran

    Article • Democratization, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  31. Women as Candidates: An Experimental Study in Turkey

    Article • Politics and Gender, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  32. Support for Democracy in Iran

    Article • Political Research Quarterly, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  33. When democratization radicalizes: The Kurdish nationalist movement in Turkey

    Article • Journal of Peace Research, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  34. The Moderation Theory Revisited

    Article • Party Politics, August 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  35. Judicial Activism in Perilous Times: The Turkish Case

    Article • Law & Society Review, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  36. Religiosity and Islamic Rule in Iran

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2008, Wiley

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  37. Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies*

    Article • Polity, September 2007, Nature

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur

  38. Religious Participation among Muslims: Iranian Exceptionalism

    Article • Critique Critical Middle Eastern Studies, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gunes Murat Tezcur