Ed Schatz @edwardschatz.bsky.social Political Scientist, Central Asianist, University of Toronto
Posting about politics, authoritarianism, and Central Asia.
Josh Beauchamp @jlbeauchamp.bsky.social I like trying to solve challenging problems about important issues. Focus on education, maps and #rstats. I want to listen more than I talk.
Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
Lawrence Markowitz @lawrencemarkowitz.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @ Rowan University. Interested in state building, political violence, global security, Central Asia / Eurasia.
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social Animal social behaviour and cognition.
https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Pelin Kesebir @pelinkesebir.bsky.social Sosyal psikolog
Capulcu Tonella @capulcutonella.bsky.social I love humanity. I hate people. Fuck the patriarchy.
Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering enviro, social, urban issues + art/culture/food/travel: https://www.jenniferhattam.com
(You may know me as TheTurkishLife on Twitter)
Subscribe to my arts+culture newsletter: https://istanbuletcetera.substack.com
Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social Professor of Government at UT-Austin. Research on European politics, parties, elections, and voters. Close follower of everything Turkish, European and American.
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
Check out my Substack FLANÖR
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Defne Över @defneo.bsky.social 
@06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social 
Peter @basicph.bsky.social Aspirational internet arguer. Bike commuter who yells at cars. Philly YIMBY.- T Tikirt @tikirt.bsky.social
Tuğba Tekerek @tugbatekerek.bsky.social gazeteci, journalist, rojnamevan
Karabekir Akkoyunlu @karabekir.bsky.social Researcher at SOAS • Autocratisation and Militarisation • Turkey • Iran • Brazil • Author of "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey" (EUP 2024) • https://www.karabekir.net/ 
Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social @keymanmts.bsky.social / Assistant Professor at Sabancı University 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist 📝 / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 🎶
William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
https://turkeybooktalk.com
https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/
Elif @kedi.bsky.social sovyetova & satine
Legal wordsmith, domestic goddess, better half of a fisherman, feline servant, once a wanderer of the commi world
Sibel Oktay @sibeloktay.bsky.social Faculty Fellow at American University SIS.
Nonres. Sr. Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Award-winning author of Governing Abroad (University of Michigan Press, 2022)
www.sibeloktay.net
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Jenny @hoedeman.bsky.social Former teacher and community builder, current bureaucrat trying to make things not worse. In my native plants era.
Diego Cupolo @diegocupolo.bsky.social Co-founder, editor-in-chief, pun-runner @turkeyrecap.bsky.social. Pitch me.
Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev coder · author: @streetcoder.org · founder: @eksisozluk.com · ex-microsoft windows engineer · oldschool demoscener · guitar hobbyist · wannabe illustrator · relentless gamer · https://github.com/ssg · https://ssg.dev
📍SF bay area
Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing about Turkey and Europe. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Kapital Fiyasko 🇵🇸🪬 『Ayça/aɪtʃɑ/』 @ayca-d.bsky.social Hyperdiegesis on Twitch. Hostile Thembo. Hegelian Hell Hound #HasTwt Freelance Spotify Curator, TheoryTok Andy, Reddit Mod, and CompEng 『Philosophy STS Politics Science Policy & music brainrot』