Andy Aydın-Aitchison

@andy8chi.bsky.social

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Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him) Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302

With the sun lowering in the background the fronds of a palm blow in thr wind by a seafront promenade
A grey white cat stretched out by a blue wall with white fish painted on it. A seating element above carries the Bursa municipality name.
Beige cat on a beige bench under an olive tree
Make up counter displaying ball blusher
Cover of The National (newspaper), 4 folk, a puffin and a goose follow a piper. Above them between two stylised plant heads it reads, refugees are woven into Scotland
The 8 or 9 floor vertical distillery of port of leith, a black, branded tower with few windows; and two 80 metre foundations for maritime wind turbines. In the foreground, a pedestrian.
Behind a police officer (maybe outside US Embassy in Ankara), a hand holds a small Turkish flag and a round sign with the words, "Turks are not scared of treats"
Headline: whisky harnessed to power machines Start of article on microscopic machines in compounds linked to whisky production
Transcript extract from Prlic et al hearing at ICTY from page 51039, lines 12 to 15, on 17 March 2010. MR. KHAN: Mr. President, Your Honour, perhaps at this point I can alert my friend, for hopefully her assistance, that care be exercised in intermingling a comment with questions. It doesn't really assist.
A brown bull looks over the top of a hedge. His shoulders are built up, his back curved.
Light pink and lilac coloured bluebells among grass and trees.
Under photo of relief of University logo, text: 'Potential closures' warning as uni shake-up enters new phase John Pizzuto-Pomaco Quotation, Peter Mathieson and his mates are gutting the university in the name of profit Article text begins: A second college at Edinburgh University is set to undergo restructuring, staff have been told.
Press reader clip headed with photo of Student Union building and notes that university bosses are bypassing academic decisions
Newspaper page, most prominent headline reads, Devine delivers scathing verdict on 'inept' university bosses, over picture of Tom Devine, man in shirt against dark background
Two young lambs in a green field. Other sheep to rear. Trees in leaf on a slope at back. A grey, cloudy sky.
The mangled inners of an aubergine on a grill tray. To the righy is a part of curved skin, shiny black on the outside and browned on the inside.
News with Headline saying Labour-left MPs want Ed Milliband to bid for leadership. Above the headlune an image of him talking to a crowd in an art gallery. He may be standing on a platform, behind the seated audience, but it gives the impression he may be levitating.
Picture of the former Prince Andrew Headline UK, man arrested near home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Screenshot from dataset listing documents related to peace agreements concerning Yugoslavia in early 1990s
Transcript text (line numbers excluded) JUDGE ANTONETTI: [Interpretation] Just a minute. General Praljak, the Prosecutor has emphasised the issue of religion, the influence that the Catholic Church exercised, and we can see in the list, at page 18 in the English version, the role of someone called Alojzije Stepinac. As you are well aware, he was a cardinal in Zagreb, he was declared a martyr by the Pope, but in 1946 the Yugoslav authorities convicted him for having collaborated with the Ustasha. This is a well-known public fact. So having referred to him in a document intended for use by soldiers who, a priori, have no particular confession, even if most of them were Catholic, well, the fact that this [Page Break: Page 43668] was done, doesn't it mean that a signal is being given? Why is this reference made to the cardinal?
Information board from IASH concerning Rebecca West
View up through pink cherry blossom to blue sky
Me, on an Edinburgh street, posting my vote for the Scottish parliamentary elections. Another hand extends from the durection of the camera, also posting a voting envelop. I am wearing a scarf in the Robertson tartan.
Red and green bud opening up on a tree
Street scene. Two way traffic either side of tramlines. A line of tenement flats with ground floor shops receding into distance, right to left, under a grey sky with a bright and shallow rainbow.
Cathartic storytelling: The use of letter-writing in a study on prisoner isolation in Scotland Deborah Russo Abstract The aim of this article is to demonstrate the strengths of letter-writing as a qualitative method of inquiry in prison research. It aims to do so by drawing on the author’s research on experiences of isolation in Scottish prisons, carried out through letter exchanges with prisoners over the course of over a year. The positive elements of letter-writing were significant not solely from a researcher prospective, but also from that of correspondents. Through a process of catharsis and storytelling, participants were able to reflect on and recount stories of their trauma in isolation. However, a number of emotional and ethical challenges were encountered in the process, which researchers need to be mindful of prior to embarking on correspondence-based prison research.
Transcript text: 22 I wanted to tell Mr. Registrar that he should ask the technicians 23 to fix the screen because I have some squares on my screen. It is 24 because of Judge Prandler who dropped a file on the computer, and it no 25 longer works because of that, and since there's a hearing this afternoon Page 35699 1 it needs to be fixed.
Album cover, Duško Jaramaz, April ima gorke suze | igrala bi koza Duško in pale blazer with black rollneck. Brown hair and mustache. Backgrou d of external greenery.
Football results for Bosnia and Herzegovina v Italy, a 1-1 draw, settled by penalties in favour of the former, 4-1.
Abstract This article examines how civilian detention was weaponized during Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territories after the 2022 invasion. It focuses civilian prisoners—detained or incarcerated under Ukrainian law for non-combat-­related offences—who became subject to Russian control when prisons were seized, repurposed and, in some cases, integrated into the Russian penal system. Drawing on over 300 testimonies from five occupied facilities, the article documents patterned abuses including torture, forced labour, coerced naturalization and ideological indoctrination, alongside the military use of prison infrastructure. It advances the concept of carceral warfare to capture how prisons operate as spaces where legal authority, coercion and violence are reconfigured for military ends, erasing the distinction between penal governance and war-making. By centring prisons as arenas of wartime governance, the article contributes to scholarship on penal sovereignty and occupation regimes, while highlighting the need for stronger legal protections for prison populations ­during armed conflict.
Extract from The Guardian Website with an image of 'smart' electricity and gas meter, and headline, Energy Bills - UK Energy: about 14m households getting 'below-average' service
Mail text: Dear Andy. Thank you for your interest in the archives of the ICTY, and for bringing to our attention the public transcripts that weren't visible for those specific Prlic dates. They are now available online. Our team very much appreciates your query.
Black and white still. In a bar with bare lighting, a young man stands gesturing and talking. He is describing the universe. At either side behind him men look on with interest.
Doge meme of hand reaching out to Shiba Inu dog giving slight side-eye. Text reads So McGonagall, Such Rhyme
Text taken from herling in Prlic et al case on 7 June 2007 in which defence counsel questions Bo Pellnas, a Swedish Brigadier General who served as part of the UN Monitoring mission: 7 Q. All right. I need to move on very quickly. 8 In 2003, General, did you give an interview to a Swedish newspaper 9 called Aftonbladet? 10 A. Perhaps. 11 Q. Perhaps? 12 A. Perhaps. 13 Q. Let me remind you. Did you at any time make a comment to a [text ends]
Reconstructed carnyx head, a stylised bore's head with pink tongue, red eye, pointy ears and mane as ridge on stem
Book cover image, terracota background with 2 strands white vertical barbed wire running the length of it. Text: Legal Plunder The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice Joshua Page and Joe Sloss
Worktop with bowls, scales, ingredients and implements, including knife, peeler, oat milk, cinnamon, flour...
Text Research article Understanding Bosnian Komšiluk: A Study of Neighbourhood Dynamics and Violence Sandra Grudić Received 14 May 2025, Accepted 20 Nov 2025 Published online: 03 Dec 2025
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Robed academics and graduands in rows on steps before stone arches
Picketers with placards before a stone archway
Headline, Glasgow Refugee: Reforms will do nothing but harm Sub: Home Secretary punishing people coming here in search of safety
UCU Edinburgh picket line outside a university building. Picketers are dressed for the cold weather, holding signs against cuts.
A black and white image of six uniformed WWI soldiers, posed inside. Four men stand at the rear, only one (left) smiles. Two are seated at the front. The man at the centre holds the hand of an especially young soldier seated at the front, and rests his other hand on the shoulder of the other seated man. The picture has a sombre air to it, seen in the expressions of most men - men look uncertain or hesitant in some cases and generally serious.
Mamdani campaign branding, yellow writing, red shadow, blue/purple background. Reads,anyone for another pint?
Mamdani branding text stating East Fife 4 For far 5
Two illuminated carved lanterns, one from a Swede looking a bit angry, the other from a pumpkin in a kind of loopy jolly look. Two little pumpkins stand by with faces drawn on in marker pen.
Black and white photo of Scotrail sign at Gorebridge, edited in photoshop to make the Gore text red and running, as if written in blood
Slide - heading Freedom ratings, score from 100 Three colums of states and two info boxes Column 1: Not free (4); *Kazakhstan – 23; *Russia – 12; *Azerbaijan – 7; *Belarus – 7. Column 2: Partly Free (11); *Montenegro – 69; Albania – 68; *N Macedonia – 67; Hungary – 65; *Kosovo – 60; *Moldova – 60; *Serbia – 56; *Georgia – 55; *Armenia – 54; *Bosnia & Herzegovina – 52; *Ukraine – 51 Column 3: Free (10); *Estonia – 96; *Slovenia – 96; *Czechia – 95; *Latvia – 89; *Lithuania – 89; *Slovakia – 89; *Croatia – 82; Poland – 82; Romania – 82; Bulgaria – 77. Box 1: * ‘New’ states formed from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, or USSR Box 2: German Democratic Republic (DDR) reintegrated into Federal Republic of Germany (BRD). Not included in study. Free, 95/100.
Forth Bridge with large colums in foreground and red-painted iron structure in distance
Ruined walls in shadow and light
Bright red leaf with raindrops catching sunlight.
Moist brown mushrooms growing among moss
Single arch bridge among rocks and trees. Down the middle white water cuts through the rock.
Colour. View over still, reflective loch to autumn trees and hills. Sky is blue with some grey clouds.
Half a dozen highland cattle lolling around in a field. Closest to the viewer is a red brown cow with long horns resting its heads towards the camera.
Seated speakers in front of screen
Man at presenter's desk gesturing at slide in front of audience in banked lecture theatre.
View of transit van. Over the headrest of the passenger seat is a smiling face mask.