Kübra Aktaş
Kübra Aktaş is a Researcher at TRT World Research Centre. She completed her master's degree in Cultural and Critical Studies at the University of Westminster. Her areas of interest can be listed as cultural studies, discourse analysis, refugees and immigration studies.
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Author's Articles
Starved Twice: How Gaza’s Food Crisis Became a Weapon of War
Gaza’s worsening food crisis cannot be explained by shortage alone. This analysis argues that access restrictions, supply disruption, price inflation and infrastructure collapse have turned hunger into a broader crisis of survival, deepened by the wider regional escalation following the US/Israel War on Iran.
Containment Without Capacity: Sudan’s Displacement and the Limits of Border Politics
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
The fundamental contradiction of the regional crisis stemming from Sudan is that neighbouring states rely on strict border securitisation...
Sudan’s Hunger War: Access, Markets, and the Displacement Multiplier
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate
Sudan's crisis is not merely a byproduct of warfare, but a fundamental collapse of access infrastructure where severe hunger...
Gaza’s Hunger Crisis: Israel’s War on Access and Survival
Welcome to a new episode of the Tipping Point from the TRT World Research Centre.
In this episode, we examine how Israel has turned food,...
War Beyond War: How Conflict Transmits Crisis
A prolonged war in the Middle East does not only raise the human cost on the battlefield. It also drives energy, transport and import costs higher, placing additional pressure on fragile economies and deepening humanitarian vulnerability across the region.
When Liberation Bombs: Minab, Feminist Rhetoric, and the Moral Contradictions of Modern War
The bombing of a primary school in southern Iran has once again exposed one of the most troubling contradictions of modern warfare: the language...
Türkiye in Focus
In this week’s Türkiye in Focus:
As the war on Iran unfolds, Türkiye persists in its calls for dialogue.
Researcher Kübra Aktaş has analysed the impact...
