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Substack bum (see below). Author of "New Turkey and the Far Right" (I.B. Tauris) Analyst @TEPAV Words: @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @ForeignPolicy, etc.

London/İzmir
Joined September 2010
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Michael was right
After October 7, the Israeli election shouldn’t be close, yet the likeliest scenario is deadlock. Bibi’s staying power is partially because of splits in the opposition, but also because many Israelis think he’s delivering what he long promised nytimes.com/2026/10/26/opini…
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excited about this
New episode 📚📚 Kenan Orhan on “The Renovation” (Penguin) The novel tells the story of a Turkish woman in Italy, who discovers one day that her bathroom has been re-modelled as a cell in Istanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison. Listen below 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/10/2…
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There was a time when people debated whether Erdoğan was a democratic leader. Nobody does anymore — not even his supporters. That doesn't mean he's illegitimate, but the form of his legitimacy has changed.
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Here again, Erdoğan warning people not to engage in "street politics." He is now firmly anti-populist. teapaw.org/RTErdogan/status/21147…
Avrupa’nın kimi ülkelerinde yaşanan olaylardan cesaret alarak benzer bir teşebbüsün hayalini kuranlar varsa şunu bilsinler ki Türkiye sokakta bulunmamıştır, sokağa teslim edilecek bir ülke de değildir. Basın özgürlüğü bahanesiyle hükûmetimize saldıranlar, nümayişle suç bastırmaya çalışmadan önce, eğer yapabiliyorlarsa çıksınlar, çarpık ve kirli ilişkilerini açıklasınlar. Daha düne kadar meydanlarda basın kuruluşlarını, gazetecileri, televizyon kanallarını alenen tehdit edenler bize basın özgürlüğü dersi veremez. Bizim ne basın özgürlüğüyle ne de eleştirel seslerle bir sorunumuz vardır. Hakaret, yalan ve dezenformasyon içermediği sürece isteyen istediğini söylüyor, yazıyor, konuşuyor. Ama dünyanın bütün demokratik ülkeleri gibi Türkiye de alengirli ilişkiler üzerinden kendisine operasyon çekilmesine müsaade etmez, edemez.
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TC. Anayasası Madde-34: Herkes, önceden izin almadan, silahsız ve saldırısız toplantı ve gösteri yürüyüşü düzenleme hakkına sahiptir.” Madde-11: Anayasa, yasama, yürütme ve yargı organlarını, idare makamlarını ve diğer kuruluş ve kişileri bağlayan temel hukuk kurallarıdır. anayasa.gov.tr/tr/bireysel-ba…
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funny how a few years ago, "populism" was synonymous with far-right politics. I'm glad that didn't stick.
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Find someone who looks at you like Mike Rogers looks at Donald Trump.
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It's one of the healthiest things there is right now.
Earnest take: I think it’s probably not healthy for the practice of democratic self-government that so many people have developed strong rooting interests in elections in countries they don’t live in.
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Islamist symbolism ceasing to be a component of Syria’s identity and becoming the filter through which all other components are judged isn't the way to "strengthen national identity" - my argument in the case of school names for @SelimKoru's Kültürkapf substack.com/home/post/p-213…
Syria’s Education Ministry has altered textbook images, adding veils and niqabs on women, erasing girls from some sections and removing photos of men dancing. The changes have sparked consternation and concern among Syrians who, after 15 years of war and decades of dictatorship, want and deserve an inclusive future and not one where half the population is slowly erased in schools and universities.
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Bu adamlar bir ömür boyu, alimlerin siyasetçiye mesafeli durması gerektiğini anlattılar, sultanın sofrasına oturan alimden uzak durmalı dediler.Sonra kendilerine biraz ilgi gösteren ilk siyasetçinin eline ayağına kapaniyorlar. Yazık, boşa geçmiş bir hayat. nefes.com.tr/bir-kare-topkap…
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There was a time when people debated whether Erdoğan was a democratic leader. Nobody does anymore — not even his supporters. That doesn't mean he's illegitimate, but the form of his legitimacy has changed.
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Selim Koru retweeted
It also means that he's no longer populist. Indeed, Erdoğan has been attacking his opponents as populists. Click link below for more:
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American Muslims are very different from European Muslims
As a man of faith, I pray every day. Faith is a thing there’s just too little of in Washington.
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Verimliliği yükseltmemiz gerekiyordu (kendi merdivenini kurmak, vs)
Kıyamet alametleri belirdi! Yapay zekâ dünya ekonomisini borç krizinden kurtaracak derken, kendisi yeni bir borç sorunu yaratıyor. Amerikan devletinin de borç yükü ağırlaşıyor. Çin ise aşırı kapasite, zayıf tüketim ve yaşlanmayla sıkışıyor. Yapay zekâ balonundan faydalanmadığımız halde, balonun patlamasının maliyetleri üzerimize kalabilir. Detayları @ekonomim yazımda tartıştım. (1/2)
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historians train to move antique globes around offices?
Replying to @DanLamothe
Discussion of this has been circulating the Pentagon for some time. Some were mortified. Others made jokes. One source suggested that an "lack of patience" appeared at play when it comes to why Hegseth’s team didn't just wait for historians trained to make the move.
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Maybe the professionals should be dragged into the fight this way. Don't think it's happening though.
Wake up. Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.
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Well, the real takeaway from this clip is that Hitchens points out that Israel never defined exactly where it has a right to exist, and now no major Israeli party says that's limited to 67 borders. The right to exist comes to mean "right to expand" in exactly the way he says.
Christopher Hitchens was a big critic of Israel but he had no problem saying he believes in its right to exist
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my thought exactly
The more realistic answer is probably allied scale. Not easy, but much more plausible than quadrupling the US population.
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