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Nazlican Kanmaz

Strategic Research Director

Students For Liberty

Nazlican is the Director of Strategic Research at Students For Liberty. She is from Izmir, Turkey, and finished her undergraduate studies in philosophy at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She also studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Later she finished her graduate degree in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at London School of Economics and Political Science where she studied the effects of markets and society on each other. She has been active in Turkish civil society since 2014—where she has served as International Officer of 3H Movement, the only grassroots liberty-minded youth organization in Turkey. And she is active in academic and political circles as a proud classical liberal since then.

Favorite Figures in Liberty: Friedrich August von Hayek, Robert Nozick, J. S. Mill, Christina Bicchieri

Blog Posts

The U.S. Constitution and the right to privacy

May 17, 2022
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Civil Liberties

Americans care deeply about their Constitution.  If you’ve seen enough American movies, you have heard about the amendments. Movies about free speech mention the first, guns for the second, and law dramas for the fifth. If you have been following Ross Ulbricht’s case, you probably know that he was pleading the fourth to protect him from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Amendments are at the core of the American legal system. It is an excellent invention of Americans; it makes the social contract with the government very explicit and straightforward. Unfortunately,

Five myths about healthcare

April 1, 2022
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Health Care

Healthcare in the United States is Pandora’s Box: even the mere thought of it releases physical and emotional curses upon policymakers. We shed some light on one of the aspects of healthcare in the US in our video in Learn Liberty, which is employee benefits and various government policies likening a public option (meaning that creating a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the United States). In this post, I will address 5 other issues that make healthcare a nightmare in the US–for everyone.  1. Physicians are