Samim Akgönül is an historian and political scientist. He teaches at the University of Strasbourg at the International Relations Institute and the Department of Turkish Studies, and conducts his research at the Research Centre dres of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs). His latest publication is La Turquie nouvelle: du rêve d’Europe au cauchemar du Proche Orient (Paris: Lignes de Repères, 2017).

Elmira Akhmetova holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (iium), and is currently Assistant Professor in H…