Turkish Politics and 'The People'

Spyros A. Sofos is a political scientist based at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science and is founder and lead editor of openDemocracy's #rethinkingpopulism. He has a PhD in Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) of Lund University, Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Kingston University and Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Politics at Portsmouth University. His other books include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (1996, Routledge), Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (2008, Hurst and Oxford University Press), Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013, Palgrave). He was also co-editor of the 'Islam and Nationalism' Palgrave Macmillan book series (2013-18).