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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 2

8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn

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Ylenia Gostoli @yleniagostoli.bsky.social · Jun 5

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown

Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Jun 17

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown

Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Jun 10

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

History and motivations

How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · May 28

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Can’t take it with you

I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · May 17

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "

Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!

politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism

What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 12

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49451/...

A Song on the End of the World

As long as the sun and the moon are above, As long as the bumblebee visits a rose, As long as rosy infants are born No one believes it is happening now.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · May 12

Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...

Blitzscaling for tyrants

The lightning-fast path to tearing down due process

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · May 9

The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.

She cannot be freed soon enough.

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 8

Found it: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/In...

International Conference on Civil Resistance and Power Politics - SourceWatch

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 8

It was a wonderful tribute to to civic courage, human resilience and moral decency.

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 8

Gene Sharp spoke, alongside people who had taken part in civil resistance in their own countries—including participants from Tiananmen.

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 8

This reminded me of a conference I attended ages ago as a graduate-student assistant. I was embarrassingly clueless about the speakers, but it was possibly the most inspiring event I’d ever attended.

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · May 8

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Opinion | What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere

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Cenk Ozbay @cenkozbay.bsky.social · Apr 21

yarın!

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EngelliWeb @engelliweb.com · Apr 20

Bluesky sansüründe son durum:

• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...

How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · Mar 29

Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar.

With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Sebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social · Mar 26

We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social
We also discuss what may come next:

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Mar 25

A bar chart titled 'Prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, 2021, 2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 100 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants for both years. Turkey stands out with the highest figures, exceeding 300 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in both 2021 and 2022, significantly above the EU average.

Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Mar 25

Here are two data points to put their bravery in perspective:

A bar chart titled 'Police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, average 2020-2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 350 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. Turkey stands out with one of the highest figures, exceeding 600 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, significantly above the EU average. O

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Mar 25

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDI...

Neden eylemdesin? | Saraçhane'den sokak izlenimleri

YouTube video by +90

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Mar 24

This classic paper by @timurkuran.bsky.social argues that political revolutions are inherently unpredictable: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 | World Politics | Cambridge Core

Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 - Volume 44 Issue 1

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · Mar 23

An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end.

Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.

Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.

Resisting with style!

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Mar 21

I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney

Justice as an ideal for climate assessment

Confronting a series of planetary crises, the international community has established a complex regime of global environmental assessments. The most prominent of these remains the Intergovernmental Pa...

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