My latest piece for @foreignpolicy.com Erdogan’s visit to Washington showed that the United States and Turkey just don’t need each other as much as they used to. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/30/t...

New episode 💯💯 Perin Gurel on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, America’s Concubine” (@universitypress.cambridge.org) The book explores the political and cultural history of Turkey–Iran comparisons from the Cold War era to today 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/30/p...

Looking fwd to reading this new book on Turkey, Iran and the US. As always, thank you @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social for keeping us all updated!

A great article by Amberin Zaman detailing the main issues surrounding the KAAN project, Turkey's fifth-generation fighter jet. In summary: Ankara could complete the project if it reaches an agreement with Washington that includes the purchase of F110 engines and F16 aircraft.

My latest from @foreignpolicy.com "Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

New episode 🚨🚨 Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme. The conversation examines the government's Citizenship By Investment scheme, its economic and social consequences, and the way it has been discussed in the national political debate. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/16/g...

An image that speaks volumes about the political situation in Turkey: during the first hearing of the trial on allegations of ‘fake diplomas’, Mehmet Pehlivan, Ekrem İmamoğlu's lawyer, was forced to speak via videoconference, as he is currently in detention.

Some thoughts on the most recent assault on the CHP: 1) As the regime's loyalty test with the CHP fails to achieve the desired outcomes, the CHP leadership is exposed to accelerated and aggrevated forms of domination test.

Turkey's opposition MPs pile tables and chairs to block police besieging its headquarters in Istanbul www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Journos and CHP activists tweeting as they are detained by police this morning at the Istanbul CHP HQ

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters

Snapshot of narrow interests terrorising popular will with the support of the iron fist.

New episode 📢📢 Amy Marie Spangler on the late, great author Leyla Erbil's novel "What Remains", published soon by @deepvellum.bsky.social The book is a sophisticated, dark vision of Istanbul's history, sweeping from the Byzantine era to 20th century Turkey 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/02/a...

Very much enjoyed this book and this conversation, I definitely recommend both 👇👇

Very much enjoyed this book and this conversation, I definitely recommend both 👇👇

Financial Times: Removal of Istanbul opposition leadership by courts may presage removal of national leadership in two weeks' time

Key to an authoritarian regime‘s durability - despite all its fragilities - is the willingness of outsiders and of those who sit at the periphery to collaborate with the regime.

New episode 📢📢 Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid. The conversation addresses the domestic and regional implications of Ankara's push for the Kurdish militant group's dissolution. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/08/19/o...

Urban planning under arrest in Istanbul - my latest for @bloomberg.com on how a city of 16 million is operating with its leadership behind bars.

Latest @TurkeyBookTalk.bsky.social episode on the social/psychological impact of deadly earthquakes and their aftermath 👇👇

New episode 🚨🚨 Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey His book examines the psychiatric response to the deadly 1999 Marmara earthquake, as well as its legacy among survivors and Turkish mental health professionals who responded to it. 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/08/05/c...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... informative episode.

"The Syrian businesses leaving Turkey" by @emilywither.bsky.social. [3/5]

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it: foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters Temperatures up to 12°C higher than seasonal averages, country's meteorological service said www.dw.com/en/turkey-se...

Very pleased to chat with @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social about middle powers in an uncertain world, viewed through the lens of Turkish foreign policy. Based on my recent Foreign Affairs piece. Podcast link: turkeybooktalk.com/2025/07/22/m...

New episode 🚨🚨 Mustafa Kutlay (@mustafakutlay.bsky.social) on the successes and failures of Turkey's foreign policy transactionalism 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/07/22/m...

Turkey's minister of foreign affairs: "Any attempt to divide Syria would constitute a national security threat for Turkey and Ankara would intervene directly in such a scenario." www.karar.com/guncel-haber...

“Continuing this process is the most profitable investment for everyone today. Disrupting it will not bring more benefits,” @ruhaavi.bsky.social said, referring to the PKK disarmament process.

This week's issue, featuring some thoughts on the stalled Gov't-SDF negotiations and more akmckeever.substack.com/p/this-week-...

Pride marches in Turkey resulted in about 60 detentions last week, but that's just the surface. Beneath the symbolic protest images are lives marked by social exclusion, economic difficulties, unemployment and, at times, death. Sibel Hürtaş reports:

New episode 🎧🎧 Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain The conversation is based on his recent lecture at Istanbul Policy Center on neo-Ottomanism in Turkey and the view of empire in Brexit Britain. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.substack.com/p/erik-jan-z...

Turkey detains five mayors in latest crackdown on opposition https://www.ft.com/content/95874694-e83a-4ac0-bbd4-12258e0726a2

New episode 📯📯 David Tonge on “The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan” (‪@hurstpublishers.bsky.social‬) 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/27/d...

New episode 🚨🚨 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 📌📌 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...

”The PKK’s 12th Congress was successfully held in the Medya Defense Zones between 5 and 7 May. Detailed information and documents concerning the results and decisions of the 12th Congress will be shared with the public in the near future, the PKK said.” anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pk...

The Coming Clash Over Syria – Israel and Turkey Are on a Collision Course, by @washinstitute.bsky.social’s David Makovsky and Simone Saidmehr in @foreignaffairs.com. reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/05/06/t...

The move to turn Atatürk Airport into a technopark will likely increase the polarization in this area. But disinterest and criticism does not cut it. Turkish opposition needs a well-grounded technology policy, asap. It may not be an urgent matter in domestic politics but in global terms, it is.

The discourse on cutting-edge technologies in Turkey, particularly drones but also AI, quantum computing, EVs, has long been dominated by the ruling AKP. Turkish opposition left this discursive space open, which is often filled by the dislikes and ridicules of the social media crowd. +

Some thoughts here about Turkey's political landscape after the arrest of Imamoglu. Many things are ambivalent. What is clear, however, is that instability is a defining feature rather than a passing phase. www.cats-network.eu/assets/cats/...

Listen to a 30-min crash course on where we are at with the #Cyprus problem and why it is so intractable with our Director Fiona Mullen talking to Turkey Book Talk. #cyprob turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/29/f...

New episode 📢📢 Fiona Mullen (@fionamullency.social) on uncertainty around the future of the decades-long Cyprus divide amid geopolitical uncertainty, regional competition, and fragile Turkey-Greece rapprochement 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/29/f...

One of Turkey's top media specialists was on the mic for Turkey Book Talk. I highly recommend it, especially as the operation against Istanbul mayor Ekrem #Imamoglu is a kind of laboratory for the practices and narrative of Turkey's pro-government media. turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/15/b...

Happening in Turkey: Saturday morning wave of police operations against politicians and officials, tens of people have been detained in Istanbul, Ankara and Tekirdağ in Western Turkey tr.euronews.com/2025/04/26/i...

Scientists have long been predicting a powerful earthquake could strike Istanbul. Last year we made a documentary about how hundreds of thousands of the buildings in the city are unsafe and the complexities of trying to replace them: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Talked about the recent protests in Turkey, media coverage and social media 👇

New episode 🚨🚨 Bilge Yesil (@bilgeyesil.bsky.social) on Turkey’s narrowing media landscape and internet crackdown amid political turbulence, protests and mounting pressure on critics. 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/15/b...

Trump: I said that to [Erdogan]. I said 'Congratulations, you've been able to do what nobody has been able to in 2,000 years. You've taken over Syria' ... you gotta hand it to him.

Turkey's putting measures in place to clamp down on messaging software like WhatsApp and Signal in the same way as it does social media. via Aposto Gündem