Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com Lawyer.
Transit (@2avesag.as), baseball, politics, Yogi photos. Be loud for America.
Jose Martinez @jmartineznyc.bsky.social Reporting on transportation at The City Reporter (https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/) Previously at NY1, The New York Post, New York Daily News, The Journal News
Message or email me: JMartinez(at)TheCityReporter.NYC
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social Michigan State Senate Majority Whip | Notre Dame ☘️ | Ray Wert’s ginger half | Noa's mom
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.
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Diego Cupolo @diegocupolo.bsky.social Co-founder, editor-in-chief, pun-runner @turkeyrecap.bsky.social. Pitch me.
Raziye Akkoç @razakkoc.bsky.social EU tech, trade & competition correspondent for AFP news agency via London, Ankara and Paris. Have I mentioned Turkey yet?
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
he/him/ijiko
Diken Gazetesi @diken.com.tr Yaramazlara biraz batar!
Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com He/him
Photojournalist, biker, reader, writer: street photography, heritage, rights and struggle for them. Food&wine and their history. Italy, Mediterranean, Europe. 🧿
https://linktr.ee/PieroCastellano
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.
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
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 🎶
Özgür Öğret @ozgurogret.bsky.social Individual. Freelance journalist. Turkey Representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists/CPJ.
Alexander Christie-Miller @achristiemiller.bsky.social Journalist/writer, formerly in Istanbul, now Norfolk. ‘To the City’ (William Collins/Pegasus). All posts have grammar/spelling errors. Retweets usually = endorsements. Opinions not my own unless stated otherwise, and even then probably still not my own.
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/
Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Managing Director Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. Docent (Assoc. Prof.) of and pontificator on international relations. Opinionated. Painter.
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
Selim Koru @selimkoru.bsky.social Scholar of political ideas, Nietzsche, Turkey.
@TEPAV
Tweets in English & Turkish.
Words: @nytimes, @WarOnTheRocks, etc.
Substack: https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/
Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com Radio journalist @ BBC News/BBC Sounds. Formerly: Sky News, Euronews, Jewish News, TRT | 🇹🇷🇬🇧 | DMs open, all views mine, Türkçemiz de var az çok.
Zeyno Ustun @zeynoustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Sociology and Digital Media& Film @StLawrenceUniversity
Sibel Sebüktekin @sibelsebuktekin.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Founder RB&W || Public Safety & Security ||Openbare Orde & Veiligheid|| Defending Social Democracy & Justice
RTs & Likes are not endorsement
Gallia Lindenstrauss @glindenstrauss.bsky.social Following #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Kurds #Greece #Cyprus and their relations with #Israel
posts are my own and represent only my opinion
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
Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social #Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
Evren Balta @evreki.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Özyeğin University, Turkey; specializing in global order, citizenship, populism and conflict. Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center.
Capulcu Tonella @capulcutonella.bsky.social I love humanity. I hate people. Fuck the patriarchy.
Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc.bsky.social Kurdish Affairs Analyst | Tracking #SDF #Afrin #Kobane #Rojava #Yazidi #KRG #Turkey #Syria #Iran | #PressFreedom | Your Gateway to the Kurds 🌍
JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
Evrensel Gazetesi @evrensel.net 7 Haziran 1995'ten beri emeğin sesi, gerçeğin habercisi
#EvrenselSeninleGüçlü...
Oku okut, e-gazeteye abone ol!
https://abone.evrensel.net/
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Begum Zorlu @begumzorlu.bsky.social Interested in contentious politics, gender and the dynamics of solidarity. Based at the Department of International Politics at City, St. George's University of London.
Axel Bertamini-Corluyan @axelcorlu.bsky.social Scholar, historian, analyst, editor.
Many things to many people.
audentes fortuna iuvat
Çağdaş Üngör @cagdasungor.bsky.social Professor@Marmara University, Istanbul. Interested in China, Cold War, Sino-Turkish relations, media and propaganda
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own. 
Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
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
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.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Ziya Meral @ziyameral.bsky.social Lecturer @SOAS, Senior Associate Fellow @RUSI & the European Leadership Network.. Middle East/Turkey, international security, defence, diplomacy, climate security.. Belfast resident.. Posts likely to include poetry, baking and pics of Rathlin Island. 
Gürkan Özturan @obefintlig.bsky.social ⭕ Digital Democratic Transformation
Digital Rights
📰 @ecpmf.bsky.social Media Freedom Monitoring Officer
✒️ @freedomhouse.bsky.social Freedom on the Net rapporteur
🇹🇷 🇪🇺 Turkey-Europe Foundation board member
✍ Opinions are personal...
🇩🇪Leipzig�
Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press
Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science
Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
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/ 
Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University
Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social Sociologist. Political Sociology/ Social Movements. 
Dr. Elif Sari Genc @elifsarigenc.bsky.social Visiting Scholar at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University—Studies Elections, Parties, Representation, Identities & Autocratization in Turkey, Europe & MENA.
Femicide is political.
#istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır
Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social Historian. Boğaziçi University.
Hetav Rojan @hetavrojan.bsky.social Lecturer of Int’nat’l Security at University College Copenhagen. Guest analyst @diis.dk.
• Tracking how armed groups govern & manage political violence.
• Training practitioners in the security sector.
Priors: @ECFR.eu, Deloitte
Avlaremoz @avlaremoz.bsky.social Temelde antisemitizme ve her türlü ayrımcılığa karşı, Türkiye'de azınlıklar ve tüm dünyada Yahudilerle ilgili çoksesli haber ve fikir platformu
https://www.avlaremoz.com/
@nebahattanriverdi.bsky.social @nebahattanriverdi.bsky.social Research Analyst Africa and North Africa, Middle East, Turkish Foreign Policy 
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Amberin Zaman @amberinzaman.bsky.social Chief Correspondent Al Monitor
bianet @bianet.org Bağımsız İletişim Ağı resmi hesabıdır.
bianet English: @bianet-eng.bsky.social
bianet Kurdî: @bianet-kurdi.bsky.social
bianet.org
Devrim Yavuz @devrimyavuz.bsky.social Sociologist @CUNY @
Lehman College, author of Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey, currently spending savings from quitting smoking on records, films and olive oil
Gonca Tokyol @goncatokyol.bsky.social Freelance journalist based in İstanbul, editor-at-barge
@turkeyrecap | overlok makinesi g.tokyol@gmail.com
Can Dündar @candundar.bsky.social I Can
Yaman Akdeniz @cyber-rights.org Academic, cyber-rights activist, and trouble-maker :) AYM tescilli "kamu gözcüsü" 
Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
https://aozturk.net
Ingrid Woudwijk @ingridwoudwijk.bsky.social 📰📻📸 freelance journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl and others
Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social Political science, education research, Turkish politics and cats. 
Berk Esen @berkesen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science & Doçent @ Sabancı University, PhD @Cornell'15 #Turkish politics #populism #democratic backsliding
Beril Eski @berileski.bsky.social Journalist from Istanbul, currently Goren fellow at NYU. Words in @washingtonpost @nytimes and others.
PGP: 33F8 FC29 D6AA 984C 03F5 FA26 6473 1BD4 5401 8332
Ayse Cavdar @aysecavdar.bsky.social “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
Medya News @medyanews.bsky.social Medya News offers stories, columns, and podcasts on struggles of the Kurdish people and MENA region.
https://medyanews.net/
S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social sciences po (ba'18), leiden (ma'20), now sfu. ottoman history, religion, material culture, archery, istanbul (şevketlü/mehabetlü/kerametlü) △☽☼
https://www.sfu.ca/history/graduate/grad-students/phd/berk-metin.html
Mustafa Aydın @mustafaaydin.bsky.social Reader; Thinker; Writer; Talker
President @uikonseyi; Coordinator @TRGlobalAcademy & #GreekTurkishForum; Professor @khasedutr; Editor @uidergisi, @uikpanorama, @guvenlikportali; #Mülkiye
Yasemin Çongar @yasemincongar.bsky.social Past: Journalist for three decades.
Recent past: Directed P24 (Platform for Independent Journalism). Founded K24 & Istanbul Literature House.
Present: Writing & translating.
Cities: Istanbul, DC-NYC, Buenos Aires.
Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social Historian. Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.
https://www.samueljhirst.com
Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social PhD. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia-UK. Interested in the investigation of different political forms, political theory of authoritarianism, democratic political theory, rhetoric and political speech.
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Hatice Yıldız @hyildizhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Riccardo Gasco @riccardogasco.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in #IR at Unibo 🇮🇹 | Visiting Research Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center 🇹🇷 | SOAS Alumni 🇬🇧 | FP Program Coordinator at IstanPol | Turkey, FP, Security | gasco66@gmail.com | https://riccardogasco.phd.sh/
Bitte Hammargren @bitteham.bsky.social Partly retired - but part time still Middle East & Turkey analyst. Writer & journo. Senior Associate at the Swedish Institute of Int’l Affairs, UI.se. Ex FOI.se analyst and ex SvD.se correspondent. Likes and RTs not always endorsements. bittehammargren.com
Ilayda B. Onder @ilaydaonder.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, studying political violence, civil conflict, and rebel organizations.
https://www.ilaydaonder.com/
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Alexander Thatcher @alexthat.bsky.social American working on the Caucasus and Turkey, focusing on Armenian and Circassian issues. Yaratılışta bilgim olmadan var olan ne varsa rızam olmaksızın var.
Digdem Soyaltin Colella @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social Politics @Uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
Global Strategy Reference Group
@anticorruption.bsky.social
I work on politics of corruption and anti-corruption, authoritarian regime survival and illiberal bureaucracies
Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social Conversations with authors on Turkey and its region. Episodes every two weeks with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social + guests
Latest episodes: https://turkeybooktalk.com
Subtack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com
Patreon: http://patreon.com/user?u=2998854
Gazete Duvar @gazeteduvar.com.tr İlkeli, bağımsız, objektif haber...
➤ https://www.youtube.com/@GazeteDuvar
➤ https://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/
➤ https://www.tiktok.com/@gazeteduvar.com.tr
Yücel Yanıkdağ @yanikdag.bsky.social Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
Karel Valansi, PhD @karelvalansi.bsky.social PhD in International Relations | Researcher | Lecturer | New to Podcasting | Middle East | Security Studies | OSS | Author of “The Crescent Moon and the Magen David”
Ezgi Elci @ezgielci.bsky.social Associate Professor at Ozyegin University. Research on populism, autocratization, nativism, collective nostalgia. ezgielci.github.io
TARIK TOROS @tariktoros.bsky.social Journalist | UK | Exploring media freedom, human rights & democracy worldwide. Focus: Europe, Middle East. Advocating for diverse voices & moral accountability.
Zeynep Ertugrul @zepertug.bsky.social SSC Postdoctoral Fellow - Columbia University
Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey
Carlos Ortega Sánchez @cortegaist.bsky.social Ph.D. | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
📍İstanbul, Türkiye
Sebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social Political scientist, studies democratic basksliding, Islamist parties, Turkish politics
Ümit Kıvanç @umitk.bsky.social documentary filmmaker, author
belgesel sinemacı, yazar
Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social İstanbul via London, Cambridge, Bristol & Göreme. Author: Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell & assorted guidebooks. Cat lover. Painted trafo fan. 
hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social the jankier the pants, the player you get
birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home
type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
İstibdat ve Terakki Cemiyeti (ژين باجلان) @djenebajalan.bsky.social Zaal'ın babası; İştirakçi; Küçük Burjuva Aydını; Bacalan aşiretinin Zügürt ağası, Mid-East History
Mert Kartal @mertkartal.bsky.social * Associate Prof. of Political Science, St. Lawrence University
* Transparency International Consultant
* International organization; the European Union; good governance & corruption (control) in Europe, and a bit of Turkey
* 💛💙Fenerbahçe💛💙