Sinem Adar

LIVE SOON: How Syria impacts Turkey-PKK talks with Mohammed A. Salih Starting Aug 4 at 11:00 AM EDT

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We're hosting a live webcast with FPRI's Mohammed A. Salih to discuss how developments in Syria may impact the Turkey-PKK peace process.

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Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

"Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?" by @sinemadar.bsky.social. [5/5]

This is excellent.

Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion

through illness too late to treat, collapsed public health and the absence of a generation of medical professionals."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

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This is not a genocide that can still be prevented. That threshold has already been crossed. What remains is a long trajectory of harm — one that will unfold long after Israeli military attacks are over and even if humanitarian and medical aid begins to flow freely,

calculated and reinforced in the face of repeated international warnings. In this sense, Israel’s attacks on the health system have been just as methodical as any other genocidal policy, only carried out through different means.

directly to a condition in which large numbers of people are expected to die not only now but long into the future.

We believe this policy of dismantling Gaza’s health infrastructure was never improvised. Our report documents recurrent patterns that show that it was cumulative,

"Each aspect of Israel’s assault on Gaza’s health care system — the destruction of medical facilities, the obstruction of humanitarian access, the killing of health workers — has contributed

Read Sinem, who is always spot on.

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Turkey’s academics, independent media and artists are feeling the threat of the USA’s rising authoritarianism and unfair treatment of immigrants – but it is not the first time they have dealt with repression. For the Summer 2025 number of @indexoncensorship.org:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Historian Rashid Khalidi cancels his Fall class

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

Two Israeli-based rights groups this week declared that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, with reports citing evidence including the weaponisation of hunger. B’tselem described an “official and openly declared policy” of mass starvation."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

In Gaza the only obstacles to driving aid across the border are restrictions imposed by Israel, an ally of many western nations including Britain, and armed with British and US weapons.

They allow Israel and its allies to frame starvation as a catastrophe caused by logistics, not a crisis created by state policy.

Airdrops would usually be ordered as a last resort to feed people in emergency situations where hostile armed forces or geography make road deliveries impossible.

"In the first 21 months of war, 104 flights supplied the equivalent of just four days of food for Gaza, Israeli data shows, for a cost running to tens of millions of dollars. Spent on trucks, the same budget would deliver much more food, but the price of these flights is not only a monetary one.

Excellent analysis

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

Turkey's peace talks with the PKK could give the country's authoritarianism a multicultural veneer. But without the rule of law, the benefits to the rest of Turkey’s population will be limited, writes @sinemadar.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com (paywall): foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Good point!

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

The current peace process in Turkey appears squarely aimed not at liberalization but at consolidating Erdogan’s power, @sinemadar.bsky.social writes.

Listen to our podcast on the necessities and challenges of a closer security and defence cooperation with Turkey (in German):

www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

Die autokratische Entwicklung der Türkei sorgt für Misstrauen in der EU. Aber Ankara ist ein wichtiger Partner für Europas Sicherheit. Im SWP-Podcast sprechen @hurcanasliaksoy.bsky.social, @sinemadar.bsky.social & Günter Seufert über die Schlüsselrolle der Türkei: www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?
Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook - Kaya Genç, 2025

My comments included in this new essay by @kayagenc.bsky.social comparing crackdowns on academics in Turkey and the US.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

1/2 "The peace process represents a high-risk gamble to remake Turkey. If successful, it would consolidate Islamist and nationalist elites, both Turkish and Kurdish, under the banner of Turkish supremacy and a carefully managed pluralism" @sinemadar.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

(Genuine question and I do not have an answer myself)

“Unpredictability of Trump”: Is it a fact or simply an attribution in the face of (or due to) a radical change not only in policy, but also in executing politics?

Swedish and Finnish Perceptions of Turkey’s Role in European Security In light of ongoing changes in Europe’s security architecture resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, this report...

The 8th report of the project entitled "Swedish and Finnish Perceptions of Turkey’s Role in European Security" and co-authored by @alanderminna.bsky.social and @paultlevin.bsky.social can be reached at the link below:

www.cats-network.eu/publication/...