Çağdaş Üngör
@cagdasungor.bsky.social
Professor@Marmara University, Istanbul. Interested in China, Cold War, Sino-Turkish relations, media and propaganda
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Hello darkness my old friend [Mid Term edition]
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hello darkness my old friend [Mid Term edition]
What a despicable name for a posh restaurant.
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What a despicable name for a posh restaurant.
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🔴 SON DAKİKA
Ruşen Çakır emniyete getirildi, ifadesi başlıyor
Gelişmeler için ▶️ medyascope.tv/2025/11/06/g...
Ruşen Çakır emniyete getirildi, ifadesi başlıyor
Gelişmeler için ▶️ medyascope.tv/2025/11/06/g...
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🔴 SON DAKİKA
Ruşen Çakır emniyete getirildi, ifadesi başlıyor
Gelişmeler için ▶️ medyascope.tv/2025/11/06/g...
Ruşen Çakır emniyete getirildi, ifadesi başlıyor
Gelişmeler için ▶️ medyascope.tv/2025/11/06/g...
1. Raise Hell
2. Threaten & disrupt some more
3. Conclude like nothing happened.
2. Threaten & disrupt some more
3. Conclude like nothing happened.
US President Trump hails meeting with China’s Xi Jinping as 'amazing', but experts are not convinced about its success.
Trump-Xi meeting in Busan: Key takeaways from the summit
US President Trump hails meeting with China’s Xi Jinping as 'amazing', but experts are not convinced about its success.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Raise Hell
2. Threaten & disrupt some more
3. Conclude like nothing happened.
2. Threaten & disrupt some more
3. Conclude like nothing happened.
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Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
Just to be clear...collapsing without an earthquake!!!
The incident in the northwest city of Gebze on Wednesday also injured three others, with officials saying all five casualties are from the same family.
Two dead after seven-storey building collapses in Turkey
The incident in the northwest city of Gebze on Wednesday also injured three others, with officials saying all five casualties are from the same family.
l.euronews.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just to be clear...collapsing without an earthquake!!!
EU summoning its spirit animal.
Mercedes-Benz CEO taking Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest in China analogies to new heights
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Mercedes CEO seeks 'animal' spirit in ferocious China, US markets
German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz said carmakers must adapt like "animals" to survive in the fierce global auto market, where price wars in China are squeezing margins and belt-tightening U.S. consumers are cutting back on spending.
www.reuters.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
EU summoning its spirit animal.
I hope somebody is promoting my book in the Nazi salute social media world. Because I certainly do not :)
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I hope somebody is promoting my book in the Nazi salute social media world. Because I certainly do not :)
İlk Türkçe büyük dil modeli olarak lanse edilen Kumru da, TOGG ve ilk Türk astronotu gibi alay konusu ediliyor. Son yılların sert siyasi kutuplaşması teknolojinin tamamen AKP/Hükümet güdümünde bir alan olarak görülmesi sonucunu getirdi.
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
İlk Türkçe büyük dil modeli olarak lanse edilen Kumru da, TOGG ve ilk Türk astronotu gibi alay konusu ediliyor. Son yılların sert siyasi kutuplaşması teknolojinin tamamen AKP/Hükümet güdümünde bir alan olarak görülmesi sonucunu getirdi.
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Istanbul in less than 10 days, ladies and gentlemen.
This fantastic map by Francis Galton shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881.
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Istanbul in less than 10 days, ladies and gentlemen.
My gut tells me this has something to do with the European distaste for CCTV cameras.
The Louvre in Paris remained closed on Monday as police searched for four thieves who stole prized jewelry from the museum a day earlier in a brazen heist that lasted less than 10 minutes. Here's what to know.
Louvre Museum Remains Closed After Jewelry Robbery: What to Know
A stunning heist has raised uncomfortable questions about security at the famed Paris museum.
nyti.ms
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My gut tells me this has something to do with the European distaste for CCTV cameras.
Trump Amerikan muesses nizamına karşı mücadele ediyor, breh breh breh.
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Trump Amerikan muesses nizamına karşı mücadele ediyor, breh breh breh.
Going Taiwanese @NCHU
October 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Going Taiwanese @NCHU
Clockwork train ride, high speed kind. Apparently Taiwan found what Europe lost.
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Clockwork train ride, high speed kind. Apparently Taiwan found what Europe lost.
Write it backwards, and she is talking about Turkey :)
Every time I come to Montenegro I can feel the heart of Europe beating.
You are not only committed to your 🇪🇺 future.
You are passionate about it.
It shows.
Because you are a frontrunner in the accession process.
Montenegro can reach its EU ambitions if it stays focused on the goal, and united.
You are not only committed to your 🇪🇺 future.
You are passionate about it.
It shows.
Because you are a frontrunner in the accession process.
Montenegro can reach its EU ambitions if it stays focused on the goal, and united.
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Write it backwards, and she is talking about Turkey :)
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Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
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RIP, Diane Keaton.
October 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
RIP, Diane Keaton.
The legend is back.
Yusuf Dikec from Turkey won european championship after defeating his german opponent
https://www.europesays.com/2465773/
Yusuf Dikec from Turkey won european championship after defeating his german opponent https://i.redd.it/u1m0labc54tf1.jpeg by Battlefleet_Sol
https://www.europesays.com/2465773/
Yusuf Dikec from Turkey won european championship after defeating his german opponent https://i.redd.it/u1m0labc54tf1.jpeg by Battlefleet_Sol
Yusuf Dikec from Turkey won european championship after defeating his german opponent - EUROPE SAYS
Yusuf Dikec from Turkey won european championship after defeating his german opponent https://i.redd.it/u1m0labc54tf1.jpeg by Battlefleet_Sol
www.europesays.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The legend is back.
"Rock drummer" sounds better than "bigot"...I guess... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Once a rock drummer, Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan's first female PM
Sanae Takaichi has won Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's leadership contest and is likely to become the country's first female PM. Here's what we know about her.
www.abc.net.au
October 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"Rock drummer" sounds better than "bigot"...I guess... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Make America Contagious Again
The US is now four months away from losing its measles elimination status.
1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.
1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.
Where is measles spreading? Here's what to know.
The country is four months away from possibly losing its measles elimination status.
www.nbcnews.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Make America Contagious Again
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““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
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Third article from our special issue on "China and the Asia Pacific Century in International Politics" is just published! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/uider...
Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi » Makale » New Regionalism Beyond Asia-Pacific: South Korea’s Multidimensional Approach to the Eastern Mediterranean
dergipark.org.tr
October 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Third article from our special issue on "China and the Asia Pacific Century in International Politics" is just published! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/uider...
Third article from our special issue on "China and the Asia Pacific Century in International Politics" is just published! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/uider...
Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi » Makale » New Regionalism Beyond Asia-Pacific: South Korea’s Multidimensional Approach to the Eastern Mediterranean
dergipark.org.tr
October 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Third article from our special issue on "China and the Asia Pacific Century in International Politics" is just published! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/uider...
Istanbul metropolitan area earthquake plan:
(Daytime) Panick, flock to the street, hang around outside.
(Night) Watch people discuss geological fault lines on TV.
(Daytime) Panick, flock to the street, hang around outside.
(Night) Watch people discuss geological fault lines on TV.
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Istanbul metropolitan area earthquake plan:
(Daytime) Panick, flock to the street, hang around outside.
(Night) Watch people discuss geological fault lines on TV.
(Daytime) Panick, flock to the street, hang around outside.
(Night) Watch people discuss geological fault lines on TV.