Özgür Özvatan

Özgür Özvatan currently works as a lecturer in Social and Political Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin and is a research fellow at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research

Is Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?

The German party though internally divided about the measures, is united on anti-EU ideology to gain electoral support.

By Özgür Özvatan and Bernhard Forchtner

/ 17 Dec 2020

Is Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?

Merkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returns

To prevent such developments, mainstream parties need to shape political discourse, instead of being shaped by it.

By Özgür Özvatan

/ 29 Jul 2019

Merkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returns

Radical-right backlash against Games of Belonging: the case of Mesut Özil

Özil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if international football regulations made it possible.

By Özgür Özvatan

/ 19 Feb 2019

Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in Germany

What kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors and certain anti-Muslim German feminists?

By Gökce Yurdakul, Özgür Özvatan and Anna Korteweg

/ 3 Oct 2018