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YouTube video by Meşher İstanbul’u Yakalamak: Akışkan Bir Kentin Batı Edebiyatındaki Tasvirleri

Moderatörlüğünü Meşher’de düzenlenen "Hikâye İstanbul'da Geçiyor" sergisi küratörlerinden Ebru Esra Satıcı'nın yaptığı "İstanbul'u Yakalamak: Akışkan Bir Kentin Batı Edebiyatındaki Tasvirleri" başlıklı konuşmam yayında: youtu.be/PmcSOC7yQVw?...

What is life worth in a world as cruel as ours? This was one of the questions that Tezer Özlü’s writing dared to ask.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tezer-ozlu-journey-edge-life/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.

"Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters" by @kayagenc.bsky.social . [3/5]

İlk romanım Macera'nın (2008) yayımlanmasından 17 yıl sonra, ikinci romanım yakında Sia Kitap etiketiyle kitapçılarda olacak. İki yıldır üzerinde çalıştığım yeni romanımın yayın programına dair ayrıntıları yakında paylaşacağım.

Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.

Tezer Özlü’nün dünyasını @thenation.com dergisi için yazdım: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.

In @thenation.com @booksandthearts.bsky.social, I have a new essay on Tezer Özlü and her Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, that dwells on the connection between art and death. @transitbooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...

What I love is how you weave cinema, politics and labour — from Ceylan’s films to Syrian tech workers rebuilding home. You map the region’s emotional + political geography without cliché or romance.

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has never openly referenced politics in his films, but taken together, his body of work forms one of the most compelling accounts available of what has become of Turkey under Erdogan’s rule.

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade. Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish student...

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook: Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

New substack!

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The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

In prosecuting Imamoglu & other elected administrators, the government is attempting to solidify the cynicism at the crux of its ideology: There’s no use in seeking moral purity, since only the powerful and the ruthless survive in today’s Turkey. @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade. Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish scholar...

Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

“I was wanted by Assad’s regime because I was an anti-government protestor. I said, ‘I’ll move for maybe one or two months.’ I stayed in Turkey for the next 13 years.”

Meet Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees and are now returning to rebuild
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

To Understand Erdogan's Turkey, Watch the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan says @kayagenc.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

"The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey" by @kayagenc.bsky.social. [5/5]

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

Thank you @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and Megan Dubois, my editors at @foreignpolicy.com, for bringing Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dreamers and Cynics to readers:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

Yeni Türkiye’nin Hayalcileri ve Alaycıları. @foreignpolicy.com için Nuri Bilge Ceylan ve sinemasını yazdım: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

In recent months, the Turkish people have been asked to mind their own business as the Turkish government arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, whose politics of hope and social democratic ideals have run against the prevalent cynicism and opportunism of New Turkey. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.

In @foreignpolicy.com, I have an essay on Nuri Bilge Ceylan and “The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey”
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

Since the collapse of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees are returning to help rebuild their home country

New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

Think about how differently you think about these people when they are "tech workers" versus when they are refugees.

Same people. But dignity only afforded them in one context.

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry: @restofworld.org

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

"Syrian tech workers who fled during civil war are returning home & launching startups.They face poor internet, cash based economy, & regulatory void. The nation is rebuilding rapidly, even as recurring sectarian clashes pose a risk"

restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

Syrian tech workers who fled during the civil war are returning home and launching startups. They face poor internet, unreliable electricity, and a regulatory void, but believe tech can help rebuild their war-battered nation, @kayagenc.bsky.social @restofworld.org
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

Türkiye’ye mülteci olarak geldiler. Şimdi ülkenin teknoloji endüstrisini kurmak üzere Suriye’ye dönmeye hazırlanıyorlar. @restofworld.org için hazırladığım dosya: restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation. For @restofworld.org, I spoke to Syrian-origin tech workers —Mohammed Dayoub, Mojahed Akil, Baraah Ramadan, Rasheed Hamwi, Ragheed Obeid & Muhammed Alzubi about their plans restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

En Syrie, rebâtir internet fait partie des grands chantiers.

Cette gang a de grandes ambitions 👇

restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook - Kaya Genç, 2025

"Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook" by @kayagenc.bsky.social. [2/5]