Arife Kose
@arifekose.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of East Anglia - UK. Interested in the political theory of authoritarianism and rhetoric. I analyse authoritarianism through political speeches - currently analysing Erdogan's (president of Turkey) speeches.
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Arife Kose
@arifekose.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Hi.. Just to give you an idea about my work, I'm sharing this piece that I wrote a while ago:
(Re)inventing the nation on the centenary of the Turkish Republic: A Rhetorical Political Analysis of Erdogan’s ‘Vision for a Century of Türkiye’
www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/reinven...
(Re)inventing the nation on the centenary of the Turkish Republic: A Rhetorical Political Analysis of Erdogan’s ‘Vision for a Century of Türkiye’
www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/reinven...
This is how it's done..
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections.
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections, a move that many in the South American nation doubted would ever take place.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is how it's done..
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international day against violence against women in istanbul
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
international day against violence against women in istanbul
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On the other hand, it is a win for white nationalists when @nytimes.com cravenly launders white nationalist tropes and injects them into the broader discourse in easily digestible form
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On the other hand, it is a win for white nationalists when @nytimes.com cravenly launders white nationalist tropes and injects them into the broader discourse in easily digestible form
If you watch the entire half an hour video not just clips you'll see that even if there wasn't a war in a sense that was expected, there was a war of words, at least certainly for Trump. He kept trying to replace Mamdani's vocabulary with his own vocabulary. The most striking example was when he+
Zohran Mamdani has improbably charmed Donald Trump and given himself some political breathing room. But nobody should get too comfortable, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social—there's still a very bumpy ride ahead.
https://bit.ly/4od81Q4
https://bit.ly/4od81Q4
Zohran Mamdani's Pragmatic Socialism Is Paying Off--for Now
The incoming mayor has improbably charmed Donald Trump and given himself some political breathing room. But nobody should get too comfortable.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you watch the entire half an hour video not just clips you'll see that even if there wasn't a war in a sense that was expected, there was a war of words, at least certainly for Trump. He kept trying to replace Mamdani's vocabulary with his own vocabulary. The most striking example was when he+
Is this part of Trumpification of politics? Probably.. if you remember his dance.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Is this part of Trumpification of politics? Probably.. if you remember his dance.
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Rowan and Ackman are among the leading advocates of cancel culture in the Ivy League since 2023. Both now actively collaborate with an authoritarian government.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Rowan and Ackman are among the leading advocates of cancel culture in the Ivy League since 2023. Both now actively collaborate with an authoritarian government.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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I understand the anti-Islam explanation. But I think that this is something they get from the US far right. This shouldn't be surprising considering the close ties between them.
Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I understand the anti-Islam explanation. But I think that this is something they get from the US far right. This shouldn't be surprising considering the close ties between them.
I understand the anti-Islam explanation. But I think that this is something they get from the US far right. This shouldn't be surprising considering the close ties between them.
Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I understand the anti-Islam explanation. But I think that this is something they get from the US far right. This shouldn't be surprising considering the close ties between them.
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I loved their facial expressions. I'm not sure Plato would look like that, though.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I loved their facial expressions. I'm not sure Plato would look like that, though.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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A fascinating scene to understand how personalistic regimes work. First, there is an in-or-out decision by the leader. This is always in flux, deliberately uncertain and essential to extract rents and exert power. When you are on the inside the substance of what you say and do becomes secondary.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A fascinating scene to understand how personalistic regimes work. First, there is an in-or-out decision by the leader. This is always in flux, deliberately uncertain and essential to extract rents and exert power. When you are on the inside the substance of what you say and do becomes secondary.
I loved their facial expressions. I'm not sure Plato would look like that, though.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I loved their facial expressions. I'm not sure Plato would look like that, though.
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Empirical verification of the effectiveness of a political speech, confirmation of what we know happens when you amplify your opponent’s issues and a demonstration of the - still inexplicable? - wrong-headedness of Labour’s self-destructive political strategy.
Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Professor Will See You Now: Island of strangers
Lessons in political science. This week: island of strangers
www.politicshome.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Empirical verification of the effectiveness of a political speech, confirmation of what we know happens when you amplify your opponent’s issues and a demonstration of the - still inexplicable? - wrong-headedness of Labour’s self-destructive political strategy.
Sometimes the similarities between American far-right movements and some of the rhetoric seen in the Turkish right wing discourse really strikes me. Maybe, after all, Christianity and Islam aren't as far away from each other as is thought to be.
charliekirk.dailycaller.com/optin1762973...
charliekirk.dailycaller.com/optin1762973...
Charlie Kirk: American Martyr
An intimate look at the man and the legacy he leaves behind, told by the people closest to him.
charliekirk.dailycaller.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sometimes the similarities between American far-right movements and some of the rhetoric seen in the Turkish right wing discourse really strikes me. Maybe, after all, Christianity and Islam aren't as far away from each other as is thought to be.
charliekirk.dailycaller.com/optin1762973...
charliekirk.dailycaller.com/optin1762973...
Happy World Philosophy Day to all who celebrates.
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www.unesco.org/en/days/phil...
World Philosophy Day
20 November
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November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Happy World Philosophy Day to all who celebrates.
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www.unesco.org/en/days/phil...
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Congratulations @bilgeyesil.bsky.social
Congratulations to @bilgeyesil.bsky.social's TALKING BACK TO THE WEST on winning the National Communication Association’s International and Intercultural Communication Division Distinguished Scholarship Award for Best Book (single or co-authored) for 2025!
www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Congratulations @bilgeyesil.bsky.social
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Pro Tip:
As the label "post-liberal" is swiftly becoming embarrassing in the US (not necessarily in the UK), deploy horseshoe theory and claim that Mamdani and Trump are both "post-liberals"...
As the label "post-liberal" is swiftly becoming embarrassing in the US (not necessarily in the UK), deploy horseshoe theory and claim that Mamdani and Trump are both "post-liberals"...
Opinion | What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Pro Tip:
As the label "post-liberal" is swiftly becoming embarrassing in the US (not necessarily in the UK), deploy horseshoe theory and claim that Mamdani and Trump are both "post-liberals"...
As the label "post-liberal" is swiftly becoming embarrassing in the US (not necessarily in the UK), deploy horseshoe theory and claim that Mamdani and Trump are both "post-liberals"...
Erdogan would go further and find a couple of people who could be deemed responsible for the falling of the flag, give an 1 hour speech about the traitors, put them in prison, and then, blame the opposition for the incident and open a case for closing down the opposition party. This is how it works.
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Erdogan would go further and find a couple of people who could be deemed responsible for the falling of the flag, give an 1 hour speech about the traitors, put them in prison, and then, blame the opposition for the incident and open a case for closing down the opposition party. This is how it works.
'Rapeocracy' as @bonniehonig.bsky.social says.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
'Rapeocracy' as @bonniehonig.bsky.social says.
This is the main idea behind the authoritarian roots of the hostility to immigration in the far-right politics.
But the now dominant force in the Anglo-American radical right also have theological objections. For them human dignity & equality derive from divinity & manifest as conformity to the natural order He created. Human rights acts are attempts to usurp god £ to force something unnatural upon us (3/?)
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This is the main idea behind the authoritarian roots of the hostility to immigration in the far-right politics.
I think this thread very well explains the undemocratic political thinking behind the hostility of the far-right to immigration and it's multi-dimensional nature. I think this is what primarily Labour fails to understand.
I think it’s important to understand that for Reform’s ideologists the politics of asylum isn’t just about immigration/‘cultural coherence’. It’s a wedge to open a way to something they really really want: repeal of The Human Rights Act, which they desire for several reasons (1/?)
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I think this thread very well explains the undemocratic political thinking behind the hostility of the far-right to immigration and it's multi-dimensional nature. I think this is what primarily Labour fails to understand.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
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Email them, call them, see them.. This isn't just about us as immigrants. This is about what they're turning this country into.
🚨 NEW: Nine Labour MPs have already publicly criticised Shabana Mahmood’s asylum proposals
[@christiancalgie]
[@christiancalgie]
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Email them, call them, see them.. This isn't just about us as immigrants. This is about what they're turning this country into.