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Reports tonight that, following unprecedented intl pressure, Israel is going to facilitate a dramatic increase in aid, water supply, and aid-drop food by Israeli airforce (that has not happened before).

For many in Gaza on the brink of death, this may prove too little too late.

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits

Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

Account to follow:

There aren't many really active voices writing about #Turkey on this site.

@cplaisant.bsky.social has been wonderfully engaged, sharing articles in multiple languages, and providing Eng translations of important Turkish texts, along with his own analysis.

Well worth a follow

120 bin kişi adli kontrol altında Adli kontrol hükümleri, muhalefeti susturma aracına dönüştürüldü. Aralarında gazetecilerin ve iktidara muhalif gençlerin de yer aldığı adli kontrol ile takip edilen kişi sayısı, 1 Temmuz itibarıyla 11...

Aralarında gazetecilerin ve iktidara muhalif gençlerin de yer aldığı adli kontrol ile takip edilen kişi sayısı, 1 Temmuz itibarıyla 119 bin 413’e ulaştı.

This would mean a figure roughly equivalent to the military and civilian casualties in WWI.

DPIR’s 25th anniversary: Read our 25 in 25 Collection - celebrating staff, students, alumni, and the impact of our world-leading research.

Meet @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social‬ - Associate Professor in Comparative Politics: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

Here is the abstract of this paper:

Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study

Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

BJPolS abstract discussing the negative effects of partisan polarization on democratic choices and the benefits of promoting the choice of third-party candidates, along with the impact of civic education on reducing polarization and enhancing democratic norms.

From April 2025 -

Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - cup.org/4iooX3d

- Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social
& Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez

#OpenAccess

The guardian: analysis- Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza by Emma graham-Harrison. Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv.

Discuss.

I am excited to welcome two brilliant, fully-funded PhD researchers to @uofglasgow.bsky.social this autumn to work on different aspects of migration politics @uofglasgow.bsky.social.

Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵

One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.

Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.

At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.

The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.

Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies

US weapons still at work in Gaza.

The refusal of this administration (like the previous one) to enforce the LOAC-based legal restrictions on US arms transfers to Israel is also a rule of law issue.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

On Tuesday: Join us for a webinar session on Communalytic.org, a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media!

The registration link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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How do local politics shape where refugees want to live in the host states?

In our new study (w/ Sefa Seçen & Aykut Öztürk), we examine the internal destination preferences of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Germany.

The results are important.👇

🚨 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...

Thrilled to announce my new article, "Symbolic Leverage: Nominating (Non)Veiled Women as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey," is now published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social and available as First View (Open Access)! 🇹🇷♀️🗳️ (Thread 👇)
#SymbolicLeverage #TurkishPolitics

🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social

Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios.

osf.io/preprints/os...

🌐💻@aykutozturk.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce our next three webinars in our series "Social media as a research tool", starting on Tue, 20 May. Find out more and register here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

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🚨 Trump’s efforts to deport migrants w/o legal status to Libya are beyond disgusting.

I teach North African Politics, followed Libya for years & interviewed scores of migrants in Tunisia who went through its hell.

There is an active slave trade there. Journalists cannot enter.

An urgent thread: 🧵

After X’s repressive actions, hundreds of thousands in Turkey joined Bluesky, seeking a freer space. Reports of government censorship here are deeply troubling. Don’t squander this trust. This is a critical moment for principled leadership—not silent compromise. @jay.bsky.team

US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views White House has claimed that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ are counter to US foreign policy interests

Democracy dies in an immigration court in a GEO detention center in Jena, Louisiana.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bağımsız medya erişim engelleriyle, sansür uygulamalarıyla ve platformların keyfî kararlarıyla boğuşurken; Bluesky gibi merkeziyetsiz ve şeffaf yapılar giderek daha güçlü bir alternatif haline geliyor.

In Turkey, new technologies reinforce repression With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify pr...

During Gezi, "the protesters dominated social networks and the police weren't able to identify them," @orhan-sener.bsky.social said.

"But today, when you join a demonstration in Turkey, your face is recognized by a camera and the system cross-references it with your profile on social networks."

Dear Muse,

The organizer of your Istanbul concert, DBL Entertainment, is on the boycott list for its affiliations with the oppressive government, and its owner has insulted pro-democracy protesters. Due to the boycott, we won’t attend and urge you to stand for democracy.