Ben buraya hala pek ısınamadım galiba.

If you read one thing about Iran and Israel today, have it be this @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay on propaganda by Nahid Siamdoust. newlinesmag.com/argument/bom...

"Siyaset bilimci Karabekir Akkoyunlu, İsrail - İran savaşını "Netanyahu'nun kan kumarı" olarak niteledi. Akkoyunlu'ya göre yaşananlar post-Amerika hegemonyası dönemin ürünü..." kisadalga.net/kisadalgatv/...

Same bloody script for every country in the Middle East!

According to US intelligence sources, "not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing." Israel chose to strike anyway. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

Waging an endless war is Netanyahu's "blood gambit". He'll gladly watch the world burn if that's what it takes to stay in power. @yusufsarfati.bsky.social and I wrote about it recently for @democratization.bsky.social. Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... DM for full text.

I can almost hear the cartoonish evil laughter. Remember this is the president of the US. What a nightmare.

Türkiye Küçük Amerika idi, Amerika Büyük Türkiye oldu.

Autocratisation at lightening speed in the US.

"“Demirtaş serbest kalırsa İmamoğlu da bırakılır” türü hukuki tutarlılık gerektiren beklentiler gerçekçi değil. İktidar, hukuku, kendi bekasını korumak, rakiplerini tasfiye etmek ve dilediğini ödüllendirmek üzere yeniden inşa etti. Bu yapıdan geriye dönmesi mümkün değil." Kısa Dalga yazım...

@karabekir.bsky.social hoca her seyi tane tane anlatmis. Mutlaka okunmali. Erdoğan'ın planı, muhalefetin sınavı kisadalga.net/haber/konuk-...

"“Demirtaş serbest kalırsa İmamoğlu da bırakılır” türü hukuki tutarlılık gerektiren beklentiler gerçekçi değil. İktidar, hukuku, kendi bekasını korumak, rakiplerini tasfiye etmek ve dilediğini ödüllendirmek üzere yeniden inşa etti. Bu yapıdan geriye dönmesi mümkün değil." Kısa Dalga yazım...

A generous review of my book, "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey", by Soli Özel in the Mediterranean Politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sami Zubaida. www.brismes.ac.uk/news/obituar... @karabekir.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @merip.bsky.social

Let the new Pope Leo follow the late Pope Francis like Arne Slot followed Jurgen Klopp!

The US is bypassing autocratisation to jump straight to fascism like an Indian village skipping landlines for cell phones.

İstanbul Etiler'de afet sonrası toplanma alanı olarak belirlenmiş eski Polis Koleji arazisine dikilmekte olan rant kuleleri. Müstakil evler ve 4-5 katlı apartmanlardan oluşan mahalleye dikilen bu heyulaların hikayesi de Türkiye yakın siyasi tarihinin bir özeti 👇

#Şişli İstanbul’da yaşanan 6.2 şiddetindeki #deprem sonrası Şişli’nin Kanal İstanbul’u olarak adlandırılan inşaat alanına(aynı zamanda deprem toplanma alanı olan yer)giremeyen insanlar,sokak aralarında ve inşaatın yanındaki küçücük parkta bekliyor İnsanlar beklerken inşaat tüm hızıyla devam ediyor

A 6.2 earthquake hit Istanbul this afternoon, thankfully no casualties reported so far. But: 1. Scenes of packed crowds in narrow streets all over the city highlight the lack of adequate assembly areas. 60% of assembly areas listed in the city's disaster plan no longer exist. Many were built upon.

For Greek readers, here is an interview I recently gave to TA NEA on the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, and the subsequent protests in Turkey. www.tanea.gr/2025/04/21/i...

As an agnostic person, I tend to feel little sympathy for religious leaders. The late Pope was an exception. An advocate of compassion in a world that is normalising plain cruelty, he will be sorely missed.

Didn't you rename 🇫🇷🍟 to "Freedom Fries" precisely because the French stood up against your disastrous war?

Well, that's disappointing. @bsky.app started banning accounts complying with Turkish government demands. Not the safe haven those who migrated from X was seeking, it seems.

I've condemned Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and I've written extensively about autocratisation, inc. in the US. Safe to say, I have ZERO intention of travelling to the US in the foreseeable future, despite the numerous academic events I had lined up. Just doesn't feel safe at all.

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The kidnapping and extortion tactics the Trump administration uses against US universities and international students are mafia-like and fascistic---reminiscent of Erdogan govt's attacks on higher education in Turkey, only much more sudden and unabashed. 1/2

Yarın. Tam da #genellboykot varken.

Veri Enstitüsü'nün araştırmasına göre, halkın %69'u Ekrem İmamoğlu'nun tutuklanmasını ve ardından yaşanan olayların "keyfi" ve "adaletsiz" olduğunu düşünüyor.

Only in Brazil!! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

📰 Sunday extras: "The Protests and Political Crisis Shaping Turkey's Democratic Future" with @karabekir.bsky.social, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social and @gonultol.bsky.social. [1/5]

X users in Turkey migrate to Bluesky amid censorship bianet.org/haber/x-user...

Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar. With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Türkiye ahalisi sonunda Bluesky'a göç etmeye başlamış. Hoş geldiniz sefa getirdiniz. Memleketin toksikliğinden uzaklaşmak zor, en azından X toksikliğinden arındırılmış bir tecrübe diliyorum size.

Third World Quarterly's #SpecialIssue explores how political parties and #socialmovements resist autocratisation in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and #SoutheastEurope, with insights from Guest Editors @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social, @karabekir.bsky.social, and @keremoxford.bsky.social 🔽

“Democracy may be in retreat, but resistance to autocratisation is vibrant and evolving." Our TWQ special issue on the "Limits of Autocratisation" featured on @globalsouthshub.bsky.social 👇

Take out the pitchforks. fortune.com/2025/04/02/w...

There's a countrywide boycott of government-aligned businesses in 🇹🇷 -- and it's working! Intense social media campaign for Muse to postpone its Istanbul concert, organised by an AKP-linked entertainment company, has just born fruit.

Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Erdoğan... all cut from the same cloth, ushering in a brutal new age of "might makes right".

We discussed Turkey's critical juncture on the Rethinking Democracy podcast with @gonultol.bsky.social and @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social. Listen here: www.mei.edu/multimedia/p...

BYDs are all over Brasília, while I don't recall seeing a single Tesla in the Brazilian capital. www.ft.com/content/c97b...?

Palestine has become the ultimate litmus test of the West’s commitment to civil liberties—and many, led by the US and Germany, are failing it spectacularly.

A must-read article by Evren Balta. Her thesis: the unprecedented crisis facing #Turkey illustrates the #Erdogan regime's challenges in five key areas: legitimacy, leadership, narrative, economics and social mobilization.👇⬇️ www.t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...

It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.

My daughter (11) is subscribed to Week Junior, which is a weekly magazine that covers news for young people. The way the protests in Turkey were covered in this week's issue is much more accurate than they are covered in Turkish mainstream papers.

The Erdoğan regime is also silent about the arrest and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a citizen of Turkey. Is it a "quid pro quo" for the Trump administration's silence on the opposition leader İmamoğlu's imprisonment?

Reading about this latest purge at Harvard University, I realize it's time to reread Thomas Mann's Mephisto, about how self-declared liberals abandon their consciences to ingratiate themselves with new regimes, and keep their jobs & social position www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

This is such an outdated title for 2025.