This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and theMiddle East: From Theory to Practice, is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation.

Olgun Akbulut is a constitutional and human rights scholar at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law. His research interests address human rights, minority rights and comparative constitutional law. He has published in various academic journals both in Turkey and abroad.

Elçin Aktoprak (PhD) was a scholar at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, before she was dismissed because of signing a peace petition. Her research interests are theories of nationalism, minority issues in Europe, the Kurdish question and peace studies.