Ömer Turan is an Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. He received his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in 2012, with his dissertation, “Facing Eurocentrism, Facing Modernity: Questions of Modernization and Global Hierarchies in Turkish Intellectual History.” He co-edited the volume The Dubious Case of a Failed Coup: Militarism, Masculinities and 15 July in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He edited the volume 1968: İsyan, Devrim, Özgürlük [1968: Revolt, Revolution, Freedom] (Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2019).