Evren Öztürk

I am an independent researcher working on the structural mechanics of power. My method is observational and chronological: tracking power actors and governing classes through systematic recording over decades, then identifying the patterns that repeat across geographies and eras.

I graduated from the Business Administration program at Dokuz Eylül University. I served for many years in senior management at our family textile company — production organization, customer relations, financial and market analysis, department setup, directorship. I experienced power dynamics, class structures, and decision-making processes from the manager's perspective. In every structure I worked in, I systematically observed and recorded organizational decisions, manager-employee interactions, and the effect of corporate structure on the individual.

I then trained as a chef and moved into the international culinary sector. I was part of the opening team at Eric Ripert's Westend Bistro within the Ritz-Carlton in Washington DC. I later transferred to Ripert's Blue by Eric Ripert restaurant in the Cayman Islands. During this period I observed multinational corporate structure from the other side — as the managed. The corporate workings of Ritz-Carlton offered me the opportunity to directly experience how power dynamics manifest in large-scale corporate entities. The raw observational ground for the corporate-entity chapter of Physis came from being a corporate-entity owner for most of my life and an employee for part of it.

After returning to Turkey, the Arab Spring and domestic developments triggered my systematic research into power dynamics. My first work was a two-volume analysis covering the 2002–2014 period. During this work I observed that power conflicts and managerial classes repeated the same structural patterns regardless of geography or time.

This observation led me to read world history through the same framework. When I saw that the same perspective applied to world history, I began writing chronological history books on the phenomenon of power and governing classes: The Reign of the Aristocracy (completed), The Rise of the Bourgeoisie (paused), The Reign of the Bourgeoisie (in research). The patterns and substructure that began earlier and accumulated through these historical studies made the formulation and deepening of the theoretical framework — Physis — possible.

In November 2024 I had my first contact with AI. After a few months of trial, in February 2025 I actively incorporated AI into the theoretical work. The theory book, which I had planned to leave until after the three history programs, was brought forward. I paused work on the second history program and focused on Physis. The result is Physis: A Theory of Power — ten texts in four parts: nine numbered chapters and the unnumbered On Equality.

After the book, Triade Engine was begun as the applied extension of the theory, designed to test it against real data; it remains under proprietary development. The chronological recording method that had settled intuitively since my earliest work was systematized into an independent recording system under the name Almanak.

For the details of these four strands, see The Project. For the method and AI use, see Method & Transparency.

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