If you’re in Istanbul, come join us! I’ll be giving the keynote lecture, “Between Mobility and Control: Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire,” on Monday. @thebiaankara.bsky.social @aytekalpan.bsky.social @petercherry.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to giving the keynote at the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium and to the discussions it will open up!

🔔 Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium 🗣 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED! Dr İlkay Yılmaz (Freie Universität Berlin) will give the keynote lecture at the upcoming OM&I Symposium (13-14 April, Istanbul), focused on "Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire."

Looking forward to read Owen Miller’s new book! #ottomanempire #mountains @universitypress.cambridge.org

I’m grateful for this thoughtful note, @alanlester.bsky.social It’s encouraging to see the article engaging readers across different fields. @journalgenocide.bsky.social

My new open access article: “Security Memory, Knowledge Production, and State Formation: The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire (1876–1908),” Journal of Genocide Research. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This time in Napoli! www.unior.it/it/eventi/ot...

Loved moderating Prof. Berberian & Prof. Grigor on their inspiring book “Armenian Women, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity“(@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025) at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. A fascinating mix of political, gender, and art history. Don’t miss their Europe tour!

Join us at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social on 20 Oct 2025 for the book talk: 📘 The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 @stanfordpress.bsky.social by Houri Berberian & Talinn Grigor. www.zmo.de/en/events/th...

Excited to join Napoli L’Orientale as a guest professor to teach on Ottoman migrations! Looking forward to this new adventure. Thanks to Lea Nocera to for this opportunity!

Not surprising: “German Academia after October 7: Self-Censorship and Restrictions of Academic Freedom among MENA Scholars” www.interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

Pleasure to be part of this great conference! Many thanks to Jordi Tejel Gorgas for the kind invitation.

Gaza famine: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-famine-killed-air-strike-easier-watching-your-children-starve

Toplumsal Tarih’in yeni sayısına “Göç, Evraklar ve Şiddet (1876-1908)” başlıklı yazımla bu sefer ben de küçük bir katkıda bulundum👇

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk titled “The Armenian Question in the Ottoman East: Security, Violence, and Knowledge Production” as part of the Dynamics of Security Collaborative Research Center’s Fellow Talks series at Marburg University. Looking forward to the discussion! @sfb138.bsky.social

A third wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

70 per cent of the world’s population now live in dictatorships, according to this year’s report on democracy from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg. v-dem.net/media/public...

OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/

Excellence in Middle East Studies — something Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer personify— is being sacrificed at the altar because the boards of these schools wager not many people will care and it will satisfy the barbarians at the gates. They’re wrong on both counts.

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who came to Turkey to follow the protests, was arrested and sent to Maltepe Prison.

BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another packed house for another @hiddencostaction.bsky.social member @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social speaking about her fascinating work on Ottoman passports @esshc.bsky.social at another great conference session

The Education and Science Workers’ Union backed students’ boycott with a one-day strike. Now, the government is investigating the union, and this morning, my dear colleague Dr.Levent Dölek was taken into custody. @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social

The Education and Science Workers’ Union decided to go on strike at universities in solidarity with the students in Turkey. www.evrensel.net/haber/547754...

Lawyers in Gaziantep organised a march to protest the court's decision to remove the president of the Istanbul Bar Association and its board members from their duties. Police barricaded the area and are not allowing the Gaziantep lawyers to march.

1,133 people were detained during the protests between March 19 and 23. www.birgun.net/haber/19-23-...

CHP Istanbul Chair Özgür Çelik was injured during the police intervention.

Chp PM is in the hospital because of the brutal police attack

Interesting piece, echoes what both critical and pro-government pundits have said since Imamoglu's detention. They see Erdogan as emboldened by Trump's return and believe reaction from Nato/EU will be muted due to Turkey's possible role in new security structures. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mahir Polat'ın tutuklanması, en az İmamoğlu'nun tutuklanması kadar manidar. Alçıpan sevmiyordu çünkü adam, şehrin tarihine sermaye gözüyle bakmıyordu, sahiden önemsiyor, sahiden dert ediyordu. Cezalandırılmasının sebebi de bu. Bir şehrin tarihi nasıl sevilir onu gösteriyordu.

Beyond its immediate effects on politics, the decision on the corruption investigation will also have long-standing implications for history writing in TR. Starky irreconcilable media representations of the same event sharpen an already contested landscape of competing histories.

Buğra Gökçe, the head of the Istanbul Planning Agency, has been arrested. His “crime” was revealing the cost of living in Istanbul every month—showing the truth instead of the government’s altered statistics. #imamoğluyalnızdeğildir #istanbul

The Istanbul Governor’s Office has imposed restrictions on entering and leaving the city. The movement of “individuals likely to protest” – whoever they are?! – has been banned. All demonstrations and events have been prohibited until March 27! #istanbul #imamogluyalnizdegildir

Thousands of university students protesting the government in Istanbul!

The Istanbul Bar Association administration has been unlawfully dismissed! Lawyers protesting the decision were attacked by the police! www.birgun.net/haber/istanb...

What a day for Türkiye! I’ve compiled 10 key observations on the economic dimensions of the authoritarian consolidation process in Türkiye: open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...

In these difficult days, let’s take a moment to appreciate the beauty of Islamic art. Wishing I could see this stunning exhibition -curated by Dr. Ladan Akbarnia- at the San Diego Museum of Art. www.facebook.com/share/r/19aJ...

I’m deeply sorry to hear about the passing of Feroz Ahmad. He was a pioneering scholar of CUP and made invaluable contributions to the field. I had the privilege of meeting him in person when he joined one of our classes as a guest professor at İstanbul University.RIP www.ntv.com.tr/n-life/sagli...

3 year funded PhD positions👇

Are you still confused? The question is what will be the consequences of this? Nothing? “Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß” www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

What’s going on, dear BVG? New bus announcement: “Berlin is tough, but sincere.” Then, in English: “Please show respect and be kind to one another.”🤣

Sevgili Timur Çelik’i kaybetmişiz… Berlin’den Türkiye’ye tanıklık ettiklerini çizdiği resimleri bu dönemin adalet arayışı için hafıza deposunda hepimize selam çakıyor… artigercek.com/guncel/ressa...

The 1890 massacre at #WoundedKnee was never a "battle," although it's called that by some settler sites & books. This massacre is the last mention of Indigenous people in some US history books, as though Native people had all been conveniently disposed of and disappeared. /2

Dear Nagehan’s brilliant work👇

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By the end of my first year at university, I had already finished reading all of Shakespeare’s works translated into Turkish. Since then, I’ve sought out his plays wherever I’ve traveled—experiencing them on stages across the world, time and time again.