Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe @sinemacikmese.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University; #securitystudies #europe #transatlantic #turkishforeignpolicy
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social International Relations | Diplomacy | Turkey-Syria | Et un peu d'@OL. Personal views here
FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de Mit Recherchen, Klagen & Anfragen bringen wir Infos ans Licht. Wir bauen Demokratie-Tools und beraten bei Druck von Rechts. fragdenstaat.de
Jake Benford @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social Europe in a geopolitical world @Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin. Interested in EU external partnerships, Germany’s Europe & foreign policy, UK politics and society, EU-UK relations
Devrim Yaylalı @devrimyaylali.bsky.social 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) @swp-berlin.org SWP is a Berlin-based research institute advising political decision-makers on foreign and security policy. http://bit.ly/SWP_PrivPol / Netiquette: http://bit.ly/SWP_Net_en
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social Recent emigrant from the Other Place. 
Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social MENA energy analyst | American abroad | author of The Algerian Dream, translator of Inside the Battle of Algiers
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social YPG veteran. Interested in animal rights, antifascism, land rights, and intersectionality. I also have extremely fluffy cheeks.
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Cangül Örnek @cangulornek.bsky.social Prof. Dr.
Writes politics and history
Book and film lover
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
markhleonard.bsky.social @markhleonard.bsky.social Director of @ecfr.eu; Presenter 'Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes' apple.co/2ACObcj; Columnist; Speaker; Author 'The Age of Unpeace', 'What Does China Think?", "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (forthcoming in April)
Olesya Vartanyan @olesyavart.bsky.social Conflicts and security issues in the South Caucasus. Former senior analyst at Crisis Group and journalist at the New York Times & Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. King's College London/War Studies alumna. Contact me at olesya.vartanyan@gmail.com
Dr. Gudrun Wacker @gudrun-wacker.bsky.social Research Division Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
trying to make sense of China and the Indo-Pacific or life, the universe and everything
Roj Girasun @rojgirasun.bsky.social Rawest Araştırma Direktörü||Araştırmacı
Chris Knight @nords41.bsky.social Here but not happy about it.
Erik Meyersson @meyersson.bsky.social Chief Emerging Markets Strategist at SEB. Macro, markets, and geopolitics. Personal account, views are my own.
Jonathan Spicer @jonathanspicer.bsky.social Journalist and Reuters bureau chief in Turkey. Native of Canada. Views my own 
Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social 
Abdelrhman Zayid Ali @abdelrhmanzayid.bsky.social Post-Conflict Practitioner & Researcher.
https://carnegieendowment.org/videos/2024/09/internal-shadows-the-unseen-plights-of-libyas-idps?lang
René Engel @reneengel.bsky.social Populismus und Pointen.
Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de Wir verteidigen Menschenrechte auf der ganzen Welt.
https://amnesty.de/
Pia Fuhrhop @pfuhrhop.bsky.social Head International Security @SWP, ex @IFSHHamburg & Bundestag staffer, @KoerberIP myl_2019, all things defence policy| usual caveats, Foto Credit @european Commission
Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social Executive editor INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY @ipq.bsky.social / Editor-at-Large @internationalepolitik.de, published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); International Fellow @congeostrategy.bsky.social; lapsed Londoner.
Institut für Europäische Politik e.V. @iep-berlin.de Seit 1959 steht das IEP für europapolitische Wissenschaft und Praxis.
#EU #thinktank #Europa #Europapolitik #EUsky
http://iep-berlin.de
Halil İbrahim Yenigün @yenigun.me 
Sevil Çakır @sevilcakir.bsky.social Feminist sociologist, PhD@Leiden, Post-Doc@Goettingen, works on intersectionality, gender, social movements, diasporas, political violence, radicalization, migration, transnationalism, peace & conflict, and intersectional justice.
Aljoscha Albrecht @aljoscha-albrecht.bsky.social Political scientist | Director Ramallah Office – Palestine and Jordan @boellmena.bsky.social / @boell.de | formerly @swp-mea.bsky.social / @swp-berlin.org
Maya Dähne @mayadaehne.bsky.social journalist - author - podcaster - @swp-berlin.org „We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
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.
@s-henkel.bsky.social @s-henkel.bsky.social 
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Joost Lagendijk @joostlagendijk.bsky.social 
Alberto Bueno @albertobueno.bsky.social Asst Prof U. Granada (ES) #Defence #CivMilSky #MilSky #natsec #militarES | Fellow UTSYN (NOR) | Adj Prof U. Leipzig (DE) #CSDP | Contributor @agendapublica.es | Liberalism of fear
Gabriel Mitchell @gabiamitchell.bsky.social Eastern Mediterranean Energy & Geopolitics | Maker of Soup | PhD, VTSPIA | Husband, Father, Jerusalemite, Veteran (not exclusively in that order) | Substack: https://gabimitchell.substack.com/
Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, here in personal capacity, views strictly my own.
Melanie Müller @fraumuellerbln.bsky.social Political Scientist | South Africa and Southern Africa, Geopolitics and Mineral Supply Chains | Deputy Head @swp-mea.bsky.social | teaches @hertieschool.bsky.social & FU Berlin
Ali Yalçın Göymen @goymenyalcin.bsky.social Political Philosophy; Postdoctoral research fellow at International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (irgac.org), Uni Potsdam
Marx | Alienation | Commune Form
Neoliberalism | Authoritarianism
Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
Cengiz Günay @cengizgunay.bsky.social Director Austrian Institute for International Affairs - oiip. Teaching at the University of Vienna. Interested in Turkey, MENA Region, ENP, International and Transatlantic Relations
@nesrinnas.bsky.social @nesrinnas.bsky.social 
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Sinan Erensü @erensu.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Sociology @Bogazici 🏫
Center for Spatial Justice @mekandaadalet.bsky.social 🔬
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Cihan Tekay Liu @ctekayliu.bsky.social @socialists.nyc 🌹 @groundworkdsa.com🪴
union proud @psc-cuny.org
learner & teacher @cuny.edu
co-editor @jadaliyya.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/ctekayliu
Ali Rıza Güngen @argungen.bsky.social Research Associate at McMaster. Comments on the political economy of the global South, public banking, politics of debt, and politics in Turkey and Canada / McMaster Üni.'de araştırmacı. Küresel güney, devlet bankaları, borç siyaseti, Türkiye, Kanada.
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💛💙
Akın Olgun @akinolgun.bsky.social Gazeteci / Yazar
Evrim Kepenek @evrimkepenek.bsky.social Gazeteci @bianet.org 
Esra Elmas @elmesra.bsky.social PhD @EHESS_fr (Sociology) | @ugent (P.S. Conflict &Development)
Ankara & London
“There is peace without democracy, there is no democracy without peace”
Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network @swemena.bsky.social Network of Sweden based scholars and experts working on MENA
halegonultas @halegonultas.bsky.social 
vesaire @vesaire.press ziyadesiyle kültür neşriyatı. https://vesaire.press/
Melis Behlil @melisbehlil.bsky.social Film scholar / critic based in Istanbul. Açık Radyo, Kadir Has University, NECS, etc. 
Osman Tok @osmantok.bsky.social Berlin
Ayşe Yürekli @yuerekliayse.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇹🇷 Views my own
Semuhi Sinanoglu, PhD @semuhi.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social
Ph.D., University of Toronto.
German Marshall Fund MMF
I study propaganda, polarization, and state-business relations. Previously, forecasting work at Maidan Analytics.
https://semuhi.github.io
Mehmet İlhanlı @mehmetilhanli.bsky.social Director at Diyarbakır Siyasal ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Enstitüsü | Research Consultant at European Partnership for Democracy
Nagehan Tokdogan @nagehan7.bsky.social Mevsimlik araştırma görevlisi
Ayşe Gül Altınay @aysegul23.bsky.social YerGök Dayanışma 🌳 EarthSky Solidarity
ersoy tan @ersoytan.bsky.social 
Menekşe Tokyay @meneksetokyay.bsky.social Gazeteci, yazar, çevirmen, siyaset bilimi doktoru, çocuk hakları uzmanı
İrem Tuncer Ebeturk @iremtuncereb.bsky.social 
Pinar Dinc @pinardinch.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden | Mainly working on the conflict-environment nexus in the Middle East | The personal is political
Özlem Albayrak @ozlemalbayrak.bsky.social Dataanalyst/Data Scientist/PhD in Economics 
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Books on liberalism, democracy, human rights, Iran, and US-Iran relations. Working on a book on enmity in politics. Co-Editor, Int'l Studies Review.
hussbanai.info
Isabelle Ioannides @isabelleioannides.bsky.social EU affairs and international relations geek - all things peace and security, crisis management, EU enlargement, impact evaluation/policy learning. Balkans & Med aficionado. Strictly my views.
Elmira Bayrasli @elmirab.bsky.social CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Interruptrr, a weekly newsletter. https://interruptrr.substack.com
Rouzbeh Parsi @rparsi.bsky.social Historian. Affiliated researcher, Lund University
For my publications etc visit www.rouzbehparsi.net
Elif Andac-Jones @elifandac.bsky.social Sociologist | UW PhD | Boğaziçi alum | Georgetown U #MixedMethods, healthcare, equity, cancer, politics, social justice
Angela Ziccardi @angelaziccardi.bsky.social @ecfr.eu / @ecfrrome.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇪🇺 | Foreign policy / MENA region & Med / Migration / Energy
Based in Rome, before in 🇹🇷&🇹🇳
Yaşar Aydın @aydin2025.bsky.social Sozial- und Politikwissenschaftler; Geopolitik, Internationale Politik, Türkei und Migration
Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social Solidarity, freedom, and democracy—proud social democrat! 🌹
Former political scientist, current information security consultant guy. Bit of a gamer, too.
Turkish-Canadian, particularly proud of the latter.
Paweł Tokarski @tokarski.bsky.social Head of EU/Europe Division @SWPBerlin
At the intersection of #Eurozone, EU politics, and the digital economy
PhD in economics
Personal views
Asli Aydintasbas @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social Visiting fellow at Brookings. Former journalist. Lots to talk about.
Dr. Ilke Toygür @ilketoygur.bsky.social Political Scientist | European Union & EU in the World | Director, Global Policy Center & Professor of (Geo)Politics of Europe, SPEGA, IE University | Senior Associate, CSIS Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program
David Kipp @davidjkipp.bsky.social Associate at German Institute for International and Security Affairs @SWPBerlin. Writing on #refugees #migration #eu #development
Toygar Sinan Baykan @toygarsinanbaykan.bsky.social 
Falk Steiner @fsteiner.bsky.social Journalist. Berlin.
Bylines: DLF | Stern | c't | heise | Tagesspiegel | others
German/English.
http://steiner.berlin
Newsletter (DE): https://steady.page/de/guten-morgen-berlin/ (€)
Threema: C66VWYCB
Signal: gutenmorgen.86
Franck Düvell @franck-duvell.bsky.social Scientist, PhD, migration researcher, Senior Researcher, IMIS, Osnabruck University, previously Associate Professor, COMPAS, Oxford University, also chair of IMISCOE SCFMR, co-editor of CEEMR, TJDS and ZfM, advisor of Picum and MiReKoç etc
Gerald Knaus @geraldknaus.bsky.social Chairman esiweb.org. Europe, human rights. European from the Austrian Alps. Books: welcheseuropa.eu. grenzen.eu. caninterventionwork.org.
Ayşegül K. Kaynar @aysegulkkaynar.bsky.social https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1208117/prof-d
Patrick WIntour @patrickwintour.bsky.social currently diplomatic editor at guardian 
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Umut Yıldırım @umutyildirim.bsky.social Anthropologist at the Geneva Graduate Institute I Editor, War-torn Ecologies, ICI Berlin Press 23; Author, Resistant Breathing, Current Anthro 24 I War, Forced Migration, Extraction, Development, Decolonial resistance, Political organizing and subjectivity
Eser @eserkarakas.bsky.social Retired professor
Emekli Öğretim üyesi Kamu Maliyesi
İstanbul, Kadıköy, Strasbourg
Fenerbahçe
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Galip Dalay @galipdalay.bsky.social Oxford University, Senior Consulting Fellow @ChathamHouse & NR Senior Fellow @ME_Council
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Gerrit Kurtz @gerritkurtz.bsky.social Researcher at German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin). Focus on conflict prevention, peacebuilding and diplomacy in the Horn of Africa (Sudan and Ethiopia). Own views. Retweets not endorsement.
https://gerritkurtz.net
Will Todman @willtodman.bsky.social Chief of Staff @geopolitics.csis.org and senior fellow @mideast.csis.org. Host of State of Play pod. Conflict, governance, and displacement in the MENA region. Views my own. https://www.csis.org/people/will-todman
@gulcinbc.bsky.social @gulcinbc.bsky.social