@digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social
Politics @Uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Global Strategy Reference Group @anticorruption.bsky.social I work on politics of corruption and anti-corruption, authoritarian regime survival and illiberal bureaucracies
I am on the way to Glasgow to attend a hybrid workshop on ELECTORAL AUTHORITARIANISM, EVERYDAY EXTREMISM, AND OPPOSITION
co-organized by Scottish Network on Turkish Politics and Glasgow Caledonian University! An excellent programme with a great line up of papers @aykutozturk.bsky.social
🏆️ İlker Çatak’ın “Yellow Letters”ı Berlinale’de Altın Ayı’yı kazandı
👉 “Kurtuluş” filmiyle Gümüş Ayı Jüri Büyük Ödülü’nü kazanan Emin Alper: “Filistin halkı, İran halkı, Kürdistan halkı, yalnız değilsiniz. Ve benim halkım, siz de yalnız değilsiniz.”
bianet.org/haber/ilker-...
Excellent analysis of the upcoming Hungarian elections by @bironagyandras.bsky.social 🚨
15.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
A brilliant work! I am very happy to act as a discussant in the book launch!
@abdnpolir.bsky.social
-they rely primarily on partisan strategies early on,
-shift towards institutional strategies as regimes consolidate, abnd
-increasingly employ discursive strategies under heightened constraints, often alongside aggressive measures targeting both opposition actors and, when necessary, insiders.
Our Comparative case studies of #Hungary and #Turkey illustrate that populist leaders recalibrate these strategies over time to sustain resilience to corruption
05.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣Just came out.
We explored how #populist #authoritarian regimes survive #corruption allegations
We identified three interrelated strategies :institutional, partisan, and discursive corresponding to the functional pillars of stability – repression, co-optation, and legitimation.
The erosion of US democracy under Trump is drastically faster than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia
04.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Are you a journalist, media/ communication professional and worried about #mis/disinformation in #Scotland 🏴?
📣Join us in Edinburgh on 13 February 2026 for an interactive workshop.
Get in touch via DM or email to register
Organized by @abdnpolir.bsky.social
Funded by @scga.bsky.social
Are you journalist, trade unionist, or educator worried about dis/misinformation in Scotland? Have you been affected by the spread of false information? Get in touch and join four scholars from Aberdeen’s PIR for workshops in collaboration with
@scga.bsky.social. www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/news-...
Anti-Corruption Day. Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity.
🔵 Tomorrow we will mark International Anti-Corruption Day. We stand in solidarity with young people around the world demanding a world free from corruption. Together, we are #UnitedAgainstCorruption
08.12.2025 17:30 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
🚨Online event #LSETürkiye🚨
Türkiye in 2025: Structural Continuities Beneath Apparent Transformation
📅 11 Dec | 6pm GMT (9pm TR time)
🎙️ Speakers: Pelin Ayan Musil, Esra Çuhadar, Işık Özel & Buğra Süsler
Register: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
@lse-ei.bsky.social @lsects.bsky.social
Join us for the @psaturkish.bsky.social
workshop on "Parliamentary Framings of Work-Family Life Reconciliation in Türkiye’s Labor Law Debates"
Happening now!
Please register to receive the zoom link :
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
You can now register to join us online to discuss new research on Turkish politics!
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/10/28/j...
🚨Turkish Politics Online Workshop returns with a compelling new series exploring the intersections of digitalisation, labour law & social inequality. The programme brings together scholars for 3 in-depth discussions on the evolving dynamics of political, economic & social transformation in Turkey. ⬇️
25.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
As the convenors @aykutozturk.bsky.social
we are happy to share the Autumn 2025 program for the PSA Turkish Politics Online Workshops (TPOWs)
@psaturkish.bsky.social
The registration information for the TPOWs will be here soon.
psaturkishpolitics.uk
We welcomed Professor John Curtice today in our department seminar to talk on #migraton perceptions in #England and #Scotland! 🏴🏴 @abdnpolir.bsky.social
22.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We opened PIR seminar series with @renatasumma.bsky.social Renata shared her research on landscape of displacement and attachment with a focus on Bosnians in Nantes, Paris, Kozarac, and Sarajevo. @abdnpolir.bsky.social
08.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PIR Fall programme is out
@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdnpolir.bsky.social
We invite submissions for the Autumn 2025 Turkish Politics Online Workshops co-convened by @aykutozturk.bsky.social @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social
The series provides an opportunity for feedback on working papers with the aim of supporting junior scholars
See 👇
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/09/01/c...
Elif Toker Turnalar and Emel Sevinç
L-R: Emel Akçcalı, Mustafa Kutlay, Yaprak Gürsoy, Diğdem Soyaltın, Özge Zihnioğlu
L-R: Başak Kale, Elif Toker Turnalar, Tuğçe Bıçakçı-Syed, Aslı Kandemir
Great panels and speaker line-up for last Saturday's BATAS Symposium at #LSETürkiye @lsects.bsky.social
All-star line-up. Thank you to all the speakers and attendees for the excellent discussions and for sharing new research projects and ideas.
It was a pleasure to part of this daily event on Turkish politics and society organized by LSE ContemporaryTurkish Studies.
I had a great conversation with colleagues, friends and wider public!
@ygursoy.bsky.social @mustafakutlay.bsky.social @ozihnioglu.bsky.social
@emelin777.bsky.social
Panel 1, Turkish Foreign Policy in a Global Age with @mustafakutlay.bsky.social @ozihnioglu.bsky.social @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social @emelin777.bsky.social #lseturkiye #academicsky #skystorians #turkiye
07.06.2025 10:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fully packed room for a policy event on #corruption/#anticorruption in #Scotland organized by @abdnpolir.bsky.social in cooperation with @transparencyuk.bsky.social
and @opengovpartnership.org in the @royalsoced.bsky.social
🚨 Democracy under threat? 🚨
Join Transparency International UK's @danieljbruce.bsky.social and @muteswann.bsky.social on June 4 in Edinburgh as @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social brings together experts to tackle corruption and strengthen governance in Scotland.
www.transparency.org.uk/events/corru...
Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📍 LSE Campus | 7 June | 10am to 5pm
A full-day symposium on identity, foreign policy, diaspora and political change in Türkiye
Hosted by LSE and BATAS
🎟 Free event
🔗 More: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
#LSETürkiye
*PSA New Blog* Strategic Silence: The West and #Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn.
By Begum Zorlu @begumzorlu.bsky.social, Convenor of the PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group @psaturkish.bsky.social
buff.ly/7yIWCVK
#Politics #PoliticalStudies #InternationalRelations #PIR
