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🚨 Call for Contributions! 🚨 The ‪Political Studies Association‬’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop. 📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025 ‪@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬ psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c... #AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers

With great sadness we announce the passing of our colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following her extended illness. Fulya was internationally recognised for her scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and Islamic movements, and will be dearly missed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/condolences/...

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Clear-eyed look at food devastation in Turkish life, including lack of access to nutritious food, including not only meat, but also fruits and vegetables, and pesticide contamination. Particularly damming, given Turkey’s great agricultural potential.

📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣 We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics! Deadline: 3 October 2025 Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: [email protected] Details? Read the call &🧵

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Our Kurdish Studies Conference (11-13 June) will close with a screening of All The Mountains Give, followed by a Q&A with Director Arash Rakhsha. The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...

Very much looking forward to my virtual book launch tomorrow! Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week. 1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation 2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary... Keeping busy during #eid @lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI 🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux 📅7 June, Saturday 🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement 🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

Otuz yıllık onurlu direniş! #CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl

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here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs? Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy. My piece on the real dangers of AI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis" (ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social (We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.) www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...

I’m off to Istanbul today - my first ever visit to Turkey. Looking forward to sharing some killjoy solidarity & meeting in defiance! I shared a few thoughts on my newsletter, which includes a link to the livestream for the lecture on Wed with the title, No! open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

Lecturer Chris Hogg of @royalholloway.bsky.social found the question of using #AI to create #art troubled his students so deeply, they walked out of the class. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-... #GenAI #artificialintelligence

I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars! #BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky @cambridgeup.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social Details are here👇

Such a great initiative — highly recommend this workshop 👇🏼

Wild stuff. The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review. It does not require court approval for anything.

Plans to break with a 40-year tradition and allow dual-use and defence-related projects to be funded under Horizon Europe have been branded “unacceptable” by leading research universities #AcademicSky #HorizonEurope

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

@evreki.bsky.social'dan Turkiye'nin siyasal gecmisi ve gelecegine dair harika bir yazi: "Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı" t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...

Started the conference with the presentation of the paper: “Are Exclusionary Attitudes on the Rise Among Political Science Students? The Turkish Case” from Prof. Funda Gençoğlu, Dr. Asuman Özgür Keysan, and Dr. Zelal Ozdemir. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @psaturkish.bsky.social #Psa2025

Dün Afganlı maden işçisi Nourtani’yi yakanlara ödül gibi ceza verildi. Kısa zamanda özgür de kalacakları kesin Yoksuldu üstelik mülteciydi. Davasını takip eden güzel insanlar vardı. Biz de buradan sesi vermeliyiz. #NourtaniSuçlularıYenidenYargılansın

*Uzun zincir uyarisi*-> Siyaset bilimciler defaatle yazdilar ama hatirlatma olsun: Turkiye'de Venezuela, Rusya, Belarus, vb tipte bir rejim kurulabilmesi, sandiktan toptan vazgecilebilmesi cok zor. Bunun yapisal sebepleri oldugu kadar tarihsel ve kulturel sebepleri mevcut. Yapisal sebepler belli:+

We’ve brought all our coverage of job cuts in UK higher education together in one place. Track the latest updates here #AcademicSky #EduSky

Bluesky hareketlenmeye başladı. Bu hareketlenme yakında bu platform ile ilgili yaptırım kararlarına dönüşebilir. @engelliweb.com hesabımızı duyurular ve iletişim için mutlaka takip edin.

This week, Esra Özyürek and I have an article out in print with Men and Masculinities! 🎉 1/ We critically analyse the booming field of state-funded gender pedagogy targeting Muslim men in Germany. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social We also discuss what may come next: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Son bir hafta içerisinde birçok kadın hakları savunucusu platformun ve feminist örgütün X hesapları millî güvenlik ve kamu düzeninin korunması gerekçesiyle erişime engellendi. ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/k...

I gave an interview on recent developments in Turkey Begins at 28 min: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de....

Reporters Without Borders (RSF): “Attacks against journalists show no sign of slowing. Journalists' safety and rights are being trampled. We call on the Interior Minister to put an end to these violations.” - Bianet #PressFreedom 👇 bianet.org/haber/turkey...

İmamoğlu’nun gözaltına alınmasından sonra, öğrenci eylemlerine dair bilgi ve içerik paylaşan 20’den fazla gençlik örgütünün X hesabı erişime engellendi. Talebin kim tarafından ve hangi gerekçeyle yapıldığı bilinmiyor. Gençlerden korkan iktidarın yanında artık X de bu işin maşası

🎙️ Our podcast “The authoritarian grip on HE tightens” is now published on the LSE Higher Education Blog! Huge thanks to Lee-Ann Sequera, Tamas Dezso Ziegler, and David Swartz for their great insights. #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #Authoritarianism @lse-ei.bsky.social Listen here 👇

What can stop full autocratisation now? We know from our research that you need mobilisation across the full spectrum of the socio-political opposition + transnational support on media, civil society and governmental levels. Is there space for such a united front?

Huge news from Turkey: Ekrem İ̇mamoğlu, Istanbul’s popular mayor and Erdogan opponent has been detained alongside a long list of his political allies. This comes hours after his decades long university diploma was revoked; today long list of alleged crimes, claiming he leads a criminal organization.

Happy to be listening to dear @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social present her new book, investigating the logics of authoritarian securitisation in Turkey. @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social she explores multiple dynamics including forms of punishment, self-regulation & its relationship with state survival.

Bir şey demeyim diyorum da devletin terörö söylemini bari sahiplenmeyi bırakın, şu ortamda terörö damgası yemeyen kendini sorgulasın zaten.

I made a meme. Americans unhappy with Trump need to accept there is not a normal to go back to.

Looking forward to discussing key themes from my book with fantastic colleagues Zerrin Özlem Biner, Esra Özyürek, and Katerina Dalacoura. Here are the event details 👇

8 Turkish news organizations protest Google's algorithm change that resulted in one major news website shutting down yesterday. www.birgun.net/haber/kamuoy...

@gazeteduvar.com.tr'in kapatilacak olmasina cok uzuldum... tum calisanlarina cok gecmis olsun...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Sad to hear that Kingston University is closing the CRMEP. In solidarity... For other redundancies at UK universities: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...