Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Efe Kerem Sözeri @efekerem.bsky.social former academic, former journalist. part-time musician, full-time father 🐣🐥 https://about.me/efekerem
[p.s. I migrated my Twitter archive into bsky at the beginning of Jan 2025. beware of the missing context for posts with that date]
Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @lahoare.bsky.social Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing. Subscribe: viennabriefing.substack.com. You can reach me at: linktr.ee/liamhoare.
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
Bradley Secker @bradleysecker.bsky.social Photojournalist & portrait photographer in Istanbul. Brit. Covering migration & LGBT rights, politics, culture, news & features. Nat Geo Explorer. Rep by Panos Pictures. bradleysecker.substack.com / bradleysecker.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.
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Reuters @reuters.com 
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Did I mention I wrote a book...?
Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist 
Can Okar @canokar.bsky.social Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
Alex Barker @alexebarker.bsky.social World News Editor at Financial Times, ex Brussels bureau chief and media writer. Podcast: Hot Money. Sometimes dreams in Turkish. alex.barker@ft.com
Ceren İskit @ceren-iskit.bsky.social Journalist/producer
Shares stories from Turkey.
Featured in Fayn, bianet, Turkey Recap & more.
Mostly on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cereniskit
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
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.
Peray Ahmet @perayahmet.bsky.social Leader of Haringey Council. Councillor for Noel Park. Trade unionist. Casework enquiries to: peray.ahmet@haringey.gov.uk
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
Can Dündar @candundar.bsky.social I Can
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
Rosie Whitehouse @rosiewhitehouse.bsky.social Journalist and author. Two Sisters: Love, Betrayal and Resistance in Wartime France is out in January 2025 https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/two-sisters/ I also write travel guides and am the Historical Advisor to the ‘45 Aid Society w 45aid.org
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently. Finance stuff, opinions and Bottlejob FC.
Jacob Judah @jacobjudah.bsky.social West Africa Correspondent, The Financial Times. Soon to be based in Lagos.
James Ker-Lindsay @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social Academic and analyst | Former LSE and RUSI |
Now trying my best to make sense of International Relations, conflict and security on YouTube:
http://www.YouTube.com/JamesKerLindsay
JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
District of Summerland @vircadesproject.bsky.social Old science fiction novels, chaotic TTRPGs, werewolf hair
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.
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/
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/
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
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.
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
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are 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/
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
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. 
Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Ingrid Woudwijk @ingridwoudwijk.bsky.social 📰📻📸 freelance journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl and others
Diego Cupolo @diegocupolo.bsky.social Co-founder, editor-in-chief, pun-runner @turkeyrecap.bsky.social. Pitch me.
Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.