Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social Senior resident fellow, the Renew Democracy Initiative. Music critic, The New Criterion. Substack: Onward and Upward.
Ariz Kader @kaderariz.bsky.social Yes, that Ariz Kader.
Işıl Arıcan @isilarican.com Healthcare IT Exec • Former MD • Critical Thinking • Founder of
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Katie Halper @kthalps.bsky.social 
Aisha Sultan @aishas.bsky.social columnist @stltoday.com, indie filmmaker, writer, mom
@sspin.bsky.social @sspin.bsky.social 
Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social Junior Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg.
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Scout Tufankjian 🧿 @stufankjian.bsky.social Photojournalist. Journalist safety fanatic.
Lover of mountains, հոնի չիր, ռեժան, կոթեմ, and karalyok. 🇦🇲
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social The events of exactly 250 years ago today (1776). A project in conjunction with America’s semiquincentennial. By Jon Blackwell, an editor at the Wall Street Journal. Also follow me @100yearsagonews.bsky.social
Carlos Ortega Sánchez @cortegaist.bsky.social Ph.D. | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
📍İstanbul, Türkiye
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Efe Tokdemir @efetokdemir.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @bilkentuniv.bsky.social, PI @counster.bsky.social, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social
Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye
www.efetokdemir.com
From Anatolia @fromanatolia.bsky.social ➥ Human Stories from Anatolia
Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social Researching authoritarian politics| Freelance writer| Focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries | Previously PhD at Coventry| Views my own.
@06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social 
Hans Herkel @newatlantis.bsky.social Ekonomi, finans, tarih, trollük vs. 
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
@sso617.bsky.social @sso617.bsky.social 
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently. Finance stuff, opinions and Bottlejob FC.
Lisa Morrow @goreme1990.bsky.social Sociologist, author and travel writer living in Istanbul. Bylines: NYT Travel, BBC Travel, Fodors, The Revealer, CNN Travel. Books: Longing for IstanbuI, Inside Out In Istanbul, Istanbul Dreams, Exploring Turkish Landscapes, Istanbul 50 Unsung Places.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social sir/ma'am they/them, mütemâdiyen seyyâl, prone to awe, yoghurt purist. 
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Omar Kadkoy @omarkadkoy.bsky.social Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Erdal Yalcin @erdalyalcin.bsky.social Professor of International Economics
TradePolicy, EU, MNEs, WTO, Sanctions, FTA
https://sites.google.com/view/erdalyalcin/home
Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social Columnist at the Washington Post. Research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Co-host of Wisdom of Crowds.
Pre-order my new book THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER: https://amzn.to/3U73wu0
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
quirkglobalstrategies.com
linkedin.com/in/christinequirk
Quirkglobalstrategies: Substack
Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social Battered but unbowed. "The truth will stand when the world won’t.”
American democracy/politics; IR (E-W, Turkey/ MENA, CEE/FSU); Energy Transition; global economics. @UniofOxford @HarvGSAS @HarvLawSchool (Ed., @HarvLRev)
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
JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.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.
Dimitar Bechev @dimitarbechev.bsky.social Director of the Dahrendorf Programme
St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
Author: Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe and Turkey under Erdoğan (Yale)
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.
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/
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
Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
Julia Dahl @juliadahl.bsky.social Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley.
www.juliadahl.com
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
Faisal Al Yafai @faisalalyafai.bsky.social 
Elmira Bayrasli @elmirab.bsky.social CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Interruptrr, a weekly newsletter. https://interruptrr.substack.com
Capulcu Tonella @capulcutonella.bsky.social I love humanity. I hate people. Fuck the patriarchy.
Gonca Tokyol @goncatokyol.bsky.social Freelance journalist based in İstanbul, editor-at-barge
@turkeyrecap | overlok makinesi g.tokyol@gmail.com
Elizabete Aunina @eaunina.bsky.social About Turkey, random musing and my readings. Latvian previously in Turkey, now trotting around Brussels. Working on EU enlargement. ASU, LSE, St Andrews alumna. Views strictly mine!
Claire Berlinski @claireberlinski.bsky.social Elite creds. Interesting jobs. Writes books. Good-looking. If you like my feed, you'll love the Cosmopolitan Globalist: http://claireberlinski.substack.com
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
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Tulika Bose @tulikabose.bsky.social All-formats journalist
Currently: The Juggernaut
Prior: Scientific American / NowThis / Mashable
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Umar Farooq @farooqumar.bsky.social Senior journalist at Al Jazeera English. Recovering Foreign Correspondent. Formerly with Bloomberg, ProPublica, Reuters, LA Times.
umar-farooq.com
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.
AYDIN SELCEN @aydinselcen.bsky.social kitabım: "Gözden Irakta" -İletişim Yayınları - Anı/Anlatı
Asli Aydintasbas @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social Visiting fellow at Brookings. Former journalist. Lots to talk about.
edc @edwardcrabbe.bsky.social My parents went to a planet with no bilateral symmetry and all I got was this lousy F shirt.
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.
Graeme Smith @graemesmithauthor.bsky.social Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group
David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
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D’Maris Coffman @ddcoffman.bsky.social Executive Dean, ASB, University of Wollongong; UCL, The Bartlett: Prof of Infrastructure Economics and Finance (part-time) @johnprowle.bsky.social
uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social Quasi-mythical pointy-headed being who makes comics, like “Phoebe and Her Unicorn" and "Ozy and Millie." Bestselling, award-winning, all that. PNW. She/her.
Oh, and 5-time Reuben Award nominee, now.
Account just for book/art stuff: @danasimpson.com
Kadri Tastan @kadritastan.bsky.social Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social Brussels | Former @CATS_Network - @SWPBerlin | Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Climate and Energy (EU, Turkey, Mediterranean, Middle East and beyond).
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.
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Fatih Aygün @cyco130.com Developer, musician, and occasionally other things. Building Rakkas, Hattip, and vavite.
https://github.com/cyco130
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
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Duvar English @duvarenglish.bsky.social Turkey's own independent gazette
https://www.duvarenglish.com/
Gazete Duvar @gazeteduvar.com.tr İlkeli, bağımsız, objektif haber...
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net
Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS.
Maintained by @danni.id
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
Ekrem İmamoğlu @ekremimamoglu.com İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı | Cumhurbaşkanı Adayı
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social Art, architecture, and history from Byzantium and beyond.
All photos are original (copyrighted/no AI) or historical/referenced images.
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social The name says it all really 
Güven Sak @guvsak.bsky.social It’s the economy, stupid (Boş tencerenin yıkamayacağı iktidar yoktur) derdi rahmetli Demirel
Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social Writer
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social Not my circus, not my monkeys.
🇺🇦 Ï
In Nice, FR
carpetblogger.substack.com
Fréderike Geerdink @fgeerdink.bsky.social Independent journalist writing about power structures and those who want to tear them down. Journalism critic. Kurdistan and beyond. Based in the Netherlands. Active for PEN Netherlands and Dutch journalism union NVJ.
www.frederikegeerdink.com
Claire Sadar @clairesadar.bsky.social Reading/Writing
Boston/Turkey
Religion/Society
Science/Journalism
ClaireSadar.com / ksj.mit.edu
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.