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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Call for Contributions! 🚨
The ‪Political Studies Association‬’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
‪@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬
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#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers

Call for Papers: Turkish Politics in Transition – New Perspectives on State, Society, and Foreign Policy

The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialist Group invites contributions for an upcoming online workshop and a prospective special issue on the evolving landscape of Turkish poli…

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · Jul 14

With great sadness we announce the passing of our colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following her extended illness. Fulya was internationally recognised for her scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and Islamic movements, and will be dearly missed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/condolences/...

In memory of Professor Fulya Atacan (1962- 2025) - Condolences

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following an extended period of illness. In January 2023, Professor Atacan was appointed as an LSE ...

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · Jul 15

cok uzucu... tum sevenlerinin basi sagolsun...

bianet @bianet.org · Jul 9

🔴 Barış Akademisyeni Fulya Atacan, hayatını kaybetti

🗣️ “Sevdiğim bir kişiyi günlerce dolapta saklamak zorunda kalsaydım nasıl yaşamıma devam edebilirdim diye düşündüm. İnsan kalabilmek için ses çıkarmak zorundaydım.”

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Görselde, açık hava bir kafe veya restoran ortamında oturan orta yaşlı bir kadın yer almakta. Kadın, koyu lacivert veya siyah renkte bir tişört giymiş ve ellerini ahşap masa üzerine çapraz şekilde koymuş. Kıvırcık, kısa ve dağınık saçlı kadın, kameraya içten bir şekilde gülümsüyor. Arka planda camla ayrılmış iç mekânda beyaz koltuklar ve boş masalar görülüyor. Sandalyeye asılmış bir ceket ve yanında bir sırt çantası da dikkat çekiyor. Görsel, samimi ve doğal bir anı yansıtarak kadının sıcak, mütevazı ve dostane kişiliğine işaret ediyor.

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Jenny White @whitejenny.bsky.social · Jul 1

Clear-eyed look at food devastation in Turkish life, including lack of access to nutritious food, including not only meat, but also fruits and vegetables, and pesticide contamination. Particularly damming, given Turkey’s great agricultural potential.

Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social · Jun 27

Extraordinary figures for a G20 economy.

"87.3 percent [of children] are unable to eat meat, chicken, or fish every day...39.5 percent of the Turkish population below 18 years of age are at risk of poverty."

Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social · Jun 27

My latest piece for @globalvoices.org: Beyond the scale: Unpacking Turkey's obesity challenge amidst economic strain and food safety fears globalvoices.org/2025/06/27/b...

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PSA Autocracy & Regime Change Specialist Group @psaautocracy.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣

We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!

Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: [email protected]

Details? Read the call &🧵

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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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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · Jun 9

congratulations👏👏👏

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our Kurdish Studies Conference (11-13 June) will close with a screening of All The Mountains Give, followed by a Q&A with Director Arash Rakhsha.

The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · Jun 3

Very much looking forward to my virtual book launch tomorrow!

Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Yaprak Gürsoy @ygursoy.bsky.social · Jun 2

#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week.
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

34th BATAS Spring Symposium Event Poster

Poster: Prof Selva Demiralp talk on Inflation and Institutions: Turkiye, the United States, and the Politics of Price Stability

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Natalie Martin @drnataliemartin.bsky.social · May 22

🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

Turkish Politics and Society in Flux: Identity, Policy, and Transnational Dynamics

The 34th BATAS Spring Symposium

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · May 28

thank you for sharing it...

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Şenay Aydemir @senayaydemir.bsky.social · May 27

Otuz yıllık onurlu direniş!
#CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · May 26

please sign the petition 👇

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 26

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · May 23

here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇

LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · May 22

Missed Seçkin Sertdemir's book launch on 'Civic Death in Contemporary #Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State'?

🎧 Catch up with the full recording now on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas... @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · May 17

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?

Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.

My piece on the real dangers of AI.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 13

Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis"
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...

Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · May 13

I’m off to Istanbul today - my first ever visit to Turkey. Looking forward to sharing some killjoy solidarity & meeting in defiance! I shared a few thoughts on my newsletter, which includes a link to the livestream for the lecture on Wed with the title, No!
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Meeting in Defiance

Some thoughts on “no” before travelling to Istanbul

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · May 13

Lecturer Chris Hogg of @royalholloway.bsky.social found the question of using #AI to create #art troubled his students so deeply, they walked out of the class. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-... #GenAI #artificialintelligence

‘What I learned when students walked out of my AI class’

Chris Hogg found the question of using AI to create art troubled his students deeply. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding for both student and educator

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · May 12

I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars!

#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇

PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group @psaturkish.bsky.social · May 12

Join us on 4 June for the launch of Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey by @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social
with discussants Banu Bargu & Elise Massicard.

🔗 The event will take place on Zoom.
⏰ 9AM PT / 5PM BST / 6PM CEST |
For details & registration ⬇️
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/05/03/v...

Virtual Book Launch: Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Dr. Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir’s new book, Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State (Cambridge University Press)…

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Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social · Apr 28

Such a great initiative — highly recommend this workshop 👇🏼

Digdem Soyaltin Colella @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social · Apr 28

We invite abstract submissions for the inaugural meeting of theScotland Workshop on Turkish Politics

📍School of Social & Political Sciences, University of
Glasgow
📅 18 June 2025
Deadline :30 May
@aykutozturk.bsky.social @ugurozdemir.bsky.social

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · Apr 25

Wild stuff.

The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.

It does not require court approval for anything.

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · Apr 25

The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"

I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 24

Plans to break with a 40-year tradition and allow dual-use and defence-related projects to be funded under Horizon Europe have been branded “unacceptable” by leading research universities
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope

Alarm over EU plan to use Horizon funding for defence

Concerns framework programme’s budget could be redirected to back projects with military uses ‘threatens to undermine its core purpose,’ say leading research universities

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

Webinar: How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book

Learn what scholarly writers need to know when trying to publish for broader readerships and markets. Webinar hosted by Laura Portwood-Stacer with guest Kate McKean, literary agent and author of Write...

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