Dr. Ahmet Murat Ayta? (Assistant Professor)

Assistant Professor

Email:	aytac@uni-bremen.de
Raum:	GW 2 / A 2.310

Ahmet Murat Ayta? is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He received his PhD in Political Science from Ankara University in 2009. His research interests deal with issues of human rights theory, contemporary political theory and electoral studies. Besides this, he was an Administrative Board member at the Center of Human Rights in Ankara University for some time. After the very destructive earthquake in Van at the end of 2011, he decided to teach temporarily in Van Yuzuncu Yil University to be in solidarity with the academicians who decided to stay . He taught there between January 2013 and December 2015. During the time he stayed in Van, he had the chance to collaborate with the CSOs operating in the Southeastern Region of Anatolia where intense human rights violations were observable. He worked as a trainer of human rights activists and an observer in the cities in the region in collaboration with bar associations, the Human Rights Association of Turkey, the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, and the Human Rights Joint Program of Turkey.

Hence, he was not only an academician who is interested in the theory of human rights as a research interest, but he also made an effort to merge his theoretic studies with an endeavor to be a part of human rights activism. He returned back to Ankara University in 2015 and continued to carry out his studies with this spirit. In 2016, he signed a public petition declared for stopping military operations conducted by Turkish army in the southeast region of the country. To point out to the gross human rights violations committed during those operations, the title of the text was deliberately selected as “We will not be a party to this crime!” Like most of the other signatories, he faced many formal and informal sanctions, and finally he was expelled from the department that he had been working for nearly 20 years by a government decree in 2017, and banned from doing academic jobs. During 2017-2020 process, he gave online courses, wrote scholarly articles, and opinion pieces for various journals. And in February 2020 he started to study at Bremen University as a grant holder of the Fellowship Program for at-risk Scholars of the State of Bremen.

A. Books

G??ebe Dü?ünmek: Deleuze Dü?üncesinin K?y?s?nda (Nomadic Thinking: On the Shores of Philosophy of Deleuze), ?stanbul: Metis Yay?nlar?, 2014
Kitlelerin Ruhu: Siyasal ve Sosyal Tahayyülde Kalabal?klar (The Spirit of Masses: Crowds in Political and Social Imagination), Ankara: Dipnot Yay?nlar?, 2011
Ailenin Serencam?: Türkiye’de Aile Fikrinin Olu?umu (The Adventure of Family: Making of the Idea of the Modern Family in Turkey), Ankara: Dipnot Yay?nlar?, 2007

B. Book Chapters:

“In Search of an Alternative Perspective on Minority Rights and Minority Group Formation: Re-politicizing Non-territorial Autonomy”, Kurds in Turkey, ed. E. Nimni, E. Aktoprak, London: Palgrave, (To be published in December, 2018)
“Dünya G?rü?ü ve ?deoloji”, (Worldview and Ideology), Siyaset: Kavramlar, Kurumlar, Süre?ler, (Politics, Concepts, Processes), ed. Yüksel Ta?k?n, ?stanbul: ?leti?im, 2014, pp. 105-137
“Türkiye’de Ailenin Tarihsel D?nü?ümü: 1925-2010”, (Historical Transformation of Family in Turkey: 1925-2010), Günümüzde Türkiye’de Toplumsal Yap? ve De?i?im, (Social Structure and Change in Contemporary Turkey), eds: Faruk Alpkaya, Bülent Duru, Ankara: Phoenix Yay?nevi, 2012, pp. 299-323
“Hakikat ve Siyaset ya da Hakikati Savunma”, (Truth and Politics or the Defence of the Turth) Hakikat ve ?nsan Haklar?, (Truth and Human Rights), ed. ?zkan A?ta?, Bi?eng ?zdin?, Ankara: Dipnot Yay?nlar?, 2012, pp. 299-323

C. Articles:

“Lifestyle and Rights: A Neo-secular Conception of Human Dignity”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Forthcoming in 2017,
DOI: 10.1177/0191453716682373
“Akademik ?zgürlüklerin ?znesi Kimdir?”, (Who is the Subject of the Academic Freedoms?),MülkiyeDergisi, 2016, Volume 40, Issue 3
“Temsil, Adalet ve ?stikrar”, (Representation, Justice and Stability) MülkiyeDergisi, 2014, Volume 38, Issue 1
“Bilge K?yü Katliam?: Güncel Siyasal Tart??malarda Toplumsa Sorunlar?n Temsil Edilme Bi?imleri Hakk?nda Bir De?erlendirme”, (The Massacre of Bilge Village: A Short Evaluation on the Forms of Social Problems’ Representations in the Current Political Debates), Ankara Universitesi SBF Dergisi, 2010, 65/1
“Türkiye’de ?ans?n Terbiye Edi?ine Ge?i?: Mehmed Cavid Bey’in ?hsaiyat Kitab?”, (Transition to ‘Taming of Chance’ in Turkey: Mehmed Cavid’s Book of Statistics ), Ankara ?niversitesi SBF Dergisi, 2007, 62/3
“1960 Sonras? Dü?ünü?te Siyaset ve Toplum ?li?kileri: Berkes, Kü?ük?mer ve Mardin ?zerine Bir Deneme”, (State and Society Relations in Sociological Thinking after ‘60s: An Essay on Berkes, Kü?ük?mer and Mardin), 2006, Toplum ve Bilim, Number: 106.

A complete publication list can be found here

Ongoing project:

Gross Human Rights Violations During the State of Emergency Period (2016-2018) in Turkey (Supported by Frederick Ebert Stiftung Foundation)

Project Manager (2015-2017):

Social Impact Analysis of the Activities of the CSOs in Turkey, (Supported by Civil Society Development Center of Turkey)

Academic Advisor and the Project Manager (2012-2014):

Monitoring of the Implementation of the Judgments of the ECtHR, with Assis. Prof. Kerem Alt?parmak (Supported by European Union)

Survey Assistant (2008):

Civil Society Dialogue Project: Bringing Workers together from Turkey and European Union, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Theo Nichols & Prof. Dr. Nadir Su?ur (Supported by European Union).

Graduate Courses:

Radical Ideas in Pedagogy (Winter Termn 2020/21, Universit?t Bremen, with Prof. Dr. Betül Yarar)
Right and Violation: A Critique of Violence (Frei Universit?t Berlin, 2019-2020, Winter Semester).
Theory of Human Rights (2012-2017)
Contemporary Debates in Post-Structuralist Political Thought (2012-2017)
Masses and Politics (2010-1015)
Difference and Becoming in the Political Thought (2015-2016)
History of the Political Thought: From Plato to Derrida (2015-2017)