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Meral Ugur-Cinar @meralugurcinar.bsky.social Associate Prof. Bilkent University POLS, editor @Gender, Place & Culture, UPENN PhD, New School postdoc
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç @guldembaykal.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Anthropology @ Istanbul University, PhD in Anthropology @ Columbia University, BA in Psychology, BA & MA in Sociology @ Bogazici University
Yeliz Çavuş @yelizcavus.bsky.social Time traveler, historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, alumni @OhioState, rektor @UniBogazici, PhD in procrastination, Random Midwest expert, certified Middle East pro!
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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
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.
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
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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.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social Historian. Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.
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JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
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Yusuf Can @yusufcan.bsky.social Research Associate @ Stimson Center. Formerly @ Wilson Center. All things MENA & Turkey. Alum @ Georgetown Uni. Views my own. ycan@stimson.org
Raziye Akkoç @razakkoc.bsky.social EU tech, trade & competition correspondent for AFP news agency via London, Ankara and Paris. Have I mentioned Turkey yet?
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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.
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 🎶
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...- A Ayla Jean Yackley @aylajean.bsky.social
Humeyra Pamuk @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
Ali Yaycıoğlu @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social Professor of History - Stanford University. Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mideast & Turkey. Columnist Gazete Oksijen. Draws imaginary cities and landscapes 👉🏽 instagram.com/aliyaycioglu
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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
Vanessa Larson @vanessahlarson.bsky.social Journalist in D.C. after Istanbul. Bylines/copy editor at The Washington Post. Write on M.E. arts+culture. Formerly at Foreign Policy; Fodor's Travel Turkey guidebook writer. Türkçe.
Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social Journalist, Turkey correspondent (Dutch Public Broadcaster NOS), Feminist
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Sosyoloji MA | Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
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Emre Selcuk @emreselcuk.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology at Sabanci University, Istanbul | Studies interpersonal relations | Cornell alum | http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/emreselcuk
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phd @ the new school for social research, ba @ bogazici university.
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Killian Cogan @killian-cogan.bsky.social Turkey correspondent for the French & Swiss press @ Libération, Les Echos, La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan magazine.
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Jannes Tessmann @jannes-t.bsky.social Head of Istanbul Office, Stiftung Mercator | Alumnus of Istanbul Policy Center, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, University of Cologne, Sabancı University
Åse Marit Befring @asembefring.bsky.social Middle East correspondent for Norwegian TV&Radio (NRK), based in Istanbul. Let’s fight polarization and base the news on facts instead of rumors
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Halk TV (dış haberler md.)
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Ezgi Basaran @ezgibasaran.bsky.social Journalist + social scientist. Interested in the politics of the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. From Istanbul, based in Oxford. MPhil, DPhil, Oxon. 
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
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Akin Unver @akinunver.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of International Relations at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Data Science, Emerging Tech, War, TechnoPolitics. P.I. of DE-CONSPIRATOR (HorizonEU). Associate Editor; @gsqjournal.bsky.social Fellow; Carnegie Endowment Fellow. (akinunver.org)
Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering enviro, social, urban issues + art/culture/food/travel: https://www.jenniferhattam.com
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Nesi Altaras @nesialtaras.bsky.social Stanford phd in ottoman jewish history. diaspora montrealer. istanbul jew. Me karisheo en meseles. Eskriviendo bazen en djudio and eng, ve turkce
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Cansu Çamlıbel @cansucamlibel.bsky.social Journo based in Istanbul.
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
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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/
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Salwan Georges @salwangeorges.bsky.social 📸 Pulitzer Prize-winning Visual Journalist
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social Senior EU climate reporter at POLITICO.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
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