Mehmet Volkan

YouTube video by başka ülke Mehmet Doğar ile İtalyan Faşizmi ve Akdeniz

Başka Ülke'nin 44. sohbetinde Ankara British lnstitute'ten Mehmet Doğar ile İtalyan Faşizmi üzerine konuştuk. Faşizmin kökenleri ve yükselişi, Mussolini rejimi ve kültü, Akdeniz politikası ve Türk-İtalyan ilişkileri gibi konular üzerinde durduk. İlginize.
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Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

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Israel is killing the best representatives of every single sector of Palestinian society - sports, medicine, the law, academia, journalism, teachers, and everyone else A wide ranging, systematic, and comprehensive genocide.

Yesterday, I was denied entry to Kazakhstan without any explanation, although the reason is obvious. This is not an official deportation decision taken after a legal process.
I lived in Kazakhstan for about 5 years and always considered Almaty my second home. I am really sorry.

Anyone seeking to “but Hamas” this deliberate Israeli campaign of mass murder of children should be shamed out of public life, from policy makers to academics who have continued to act as if there is some meaningful debate over Israel’s intentions and actions.

🚨 #GazaStrip Alert

The worst-case scenario of #Famine is rapidly unfolding in the #GazaStrip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access.

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@TheIPCinfo #FoodInsecurity #Malnutrition

l received an inquiry from BBC about my research. This is how l responded. l think all my colleagues should do the same.

After years of research, writing, and revising, I’m happy to have finally published the core argument of my dissertation in article form in Central European History.

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“I Wanted to Bite at the Chauvinists”: Tatar History, Culture, and Politics during the Thaw This article assesses the activities of Tatar intellectual and cultural elites during the decade and a half following Stalin's death in 1953. The climate of reform and de-Stalinization under Nikita K...

My forthcoming article on the Thaw in Tatarstan is now available online through The Russian Review. Thanks to colleagues and friends who helped make it possible!

Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...

"Gaza is unique in the annals of starvation because of the simplicity of this calculation. ... Palestinians in Gaza can’t do any of this. Israel controls every shekel, every sack of flour, every connection to the outside world."
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‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction Bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable.

While airstrikes account for mass casualties, bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable, a joint investigation reveals www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

Rafah in ruins

Recent update from friends in central Gaza (Sunday 1pm):

"We are receiving more wounded people from the ongoing attacks. More than 160 martyrs from this morning till now. The wounded number is very high too.
We ran out of blood units and the lives of many people depend on giving them blood."

YouTube video by başka ülke Türkay Gasimli ile 19. Asırda Bakü: İmparatorluk, Petrol, Entelijansiya

Başka Ülke'nin 43. sohbetinde Padova Üniversitesi'nden Azerbaycanlı tarihçi Türkay Gasimli ile 19. asırda Bakü'de (ve Güney Kafkasya'da) emperyal idare, petrol endüstrisi ve entelijansiyanın ortaya çıkışı üzerine konuştuk. İlginize.
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The number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza is three times the total killed in all of World War II. Brown University study.

The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: Trump can stop this horror. The alternative is unthinkable | Editorial Editorial: The US president has the leverage to force through a ceasefire. If he does not, he will implicitly signal approval of what looks like a plan of total destruction

“Seldom have I heard the leader of a state so clearly outline a plan that fits the legal definition of genocide,” said Josep Borrell, the former EU foreign affairs chief. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have humans passed peak brain power? Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

Read it together with this. Human intellectual capacity was already declining since early 2010s due to new digital technologies. The data for this research does not even cover the era of Al, but it is not difficult to guess the results after Al.

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Everybody is worried about Al's impact on education, but l don't think a lot of people are really aware of how serious the situation is. We are coming to the end of university education. There is no possible return from this. Probably in a decade, there will be no meaningful university education.

This is not the time to discuss it, but what appears to be the iconic image of a protester in Istanbul disguised as a whirling dervish is actually less "iconic" than one might think.

The last thing we need is the orientalist aestheticization of a genuine and multifaceted social movement.

RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO

Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.

Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.

How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...

I have shared my article "From Kazakhstan with Happiness: The Myth of Happy Childhood and Its Reception in Kazakhstan" on my academia page.
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YouTube video by başka ülke Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu ile Osmanlı Döneminde ve Sonrasında Makedonya Sorunu

Başka Ülke'nin 41. sohbetinde Ludwig Maximilians (ve Yıldız Teknik) Üniversitesi'nden Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu ile Osmanlı döneminde ve sonrasında Makedonya sorunu üzerine konuştuk. İlginize.

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Friends and fellow Central Asianists. I live in Tashkent now. Let me know if you have any plans to visit Uzbekistan soon.

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan The president turned up the pressure on the two nations to agree to his proposal for them to house the Palestinian population of Gaza and said the Palestinians would not have the right to return to th...

@nytimes.com headline calls Trump’s demand for the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of the entire population of Gaza, a genocidal act and a crime against humanity on a world historic scale, a “development plan.” Just mind boggling normalization of Gaza genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

The AHA leadership’s moral cowardice and anti-democratic suppression of its own membership over Gaza is in many ways a perfect mirror of the Democratic Party.

You probably know Isaac Scarborough's book on Tajikistan. I think it is the most comprehensive work on Soviet collapse in a non-Russian republic other than Ukraine.

I used a chapter from Togzhan Kassenova's "Atomic Steppe", the chapter on the 1988 earthquake in Armenia from Nigel Raab's book on Soviet responses to catastrophes, and an article by Neringa Klumbyte on the memory of Lithuanian national movement in my The Multiethnic Soviet Union course.

YouTube video by başka ülke Rıza Yıldırım ile İran'da Kızılbaşlar ve Safevi Devleti'nin Yükselişi

Başka Ülke'nin 40. sohbetinde Rıza Yıldırım ile İran'da Kızılbaşlar ve Safevi Devleti'nin yükselişi üzerine konuştuk. 15. asırda Kızılbaşlar'ın ortaya çıkışını, Safevi yönetimindeki rollerini ve İran'daki ikili toplum yapısını ele aldık.

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YouTube video by başka ülke Ali Akkemik ile Japonya'nın İktisadi Kalkınmasının Tarihi ve Kurumsal Kökenleri

Youtube kanalinda Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı ile Japonya'nın iktisadi kalkınmasının tarihi ve kurumsal kökenleri üzerine konuştuk.
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It’s very instructive that the vast majority of liberals and Democrats praising Carter right now ignore his most courageous post presidential stance, correctly naming Israel an Apartheid state, an unforgivable sin for which many of the same people condemned him.