Conversations with Peter Boghossian

How the Left Can Make Its Way Back | Peter Boghossian & Umut Özkırımlı

12.07.2023 - By Peter BoghossianPlay

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In 2018, Turkish-Swedish political scientist and author Umut Özkırımlı became the target of a state-supported cancelation campaign in Turkey and at Lund University in Sweden. He was finally vindicated after five years of harassment. He lost his young son to cancer during that time. Umut describes himself as a left-wing progressive, a democratic socialist, and a critic of right-wing censorship. But the ordeal he went through gave him a new perspective on left-wing extremism. The result is Umut...

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