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Nicholas Danforth

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3 years

From the moment a Russian nuclear launch is detected, everyone on the east coast will have 22 minutes to tweet about why this proves they were right

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The most shocking thing about discovering my wife’s a CIA agent is that I didn’t even know I was married

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Even if you can convince people you accidentally shot a journalist, its a lot harder to convince them you accidentally attacked their funeral

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The closest video of the #Israeli police suppressing the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Aqleh as the coffin was leaving the French hospital towards the cemetery

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We've officially reached the 'friends from Istanbul texting to make sure I'm okay' stage

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A 1951 US Army Turkish language guide:

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3 years

Prepare accordingly

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When you give the guy at the bus station your drivers license and end up with a ticket for Mr. Organ Donor...

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3 years

Seems like a slightly misleading color scheme:

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2 years

Update: I've heard more serious discussion of kicking Turkey out of NATO in the last 10 minutes than I have in the last decade

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5 years

Bernard Lewis on the true Clash of Civilizations: "One can, in a sense, divide the civilizations of this planet into three zones: the sweet-milk zone, the sour milk zone, and the no-milk zone."

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5 years

A schematic map of the Eastern Mediterranean. I just wish i had one of those tiny airplane bottles for Cyprus.

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10 months

Still incredible that people are castigating Palestinians for using the phrase “from the river to the sea” without mentioning that Netanyahu was at the UN a month ago claiming the same geography

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2 years

TRT world basically just designing graphics for Greek lobbyists at this point

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Again, if you’re really using this slogan to call for an inclusive, binational state, there are some easy symbolic steps you could have taken to convey that on the map…

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3 years

Pity the poor Ottoman cartographer who had to figure out how to transliterate Worcester

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3 years

After all these years, Turkey’s aggressive genocide denial hasn’t changed anyone’s views of 1915, just their views of modern Turkey

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6 months

A lot of the Israeli justifications for mass murder I’m hearing sound pretty familiar from official Turkish defenses of the Armenian genocide

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4 years

Turkey's maritime claims in the Eastern Mediterranean make sense the moment you realize that Crete doesn't count and Cyprus doesn't exist.

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2 years

In an admirable bid to ease tensions, Ankara named its new drill ship after the Sultan who gave up Cyprus & Crete

TRT World Now

@TRTWorldNow

2 years

Türkiye’s President Erdogan at launching ceremony of the Abdülhamid Han, the country’s fourth drilling ship: - Abdulhamid Han is the symbol of Ankara’s new vision in the field of energy - This 7th generation drilling ship will be used for first time in world

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4 years

Finally finished my pandemic think piece pitch.

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3 years

Still one of the greatest book covers of all time:

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4 years

With the cover and copy editing complete, this is finally starting to feel real.

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1 year

Tip of the hat to Turkey for pioneering a whole new form of nationalism.

Indian Tech & Infra

@IndianTechGuide

1 year

🚨 India is likely to be renamed as 'Bharat' in special parliament session. 🇮🇳

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4 years

I still say Ankara's neo-Ottoman rhetoric is just a ploy to distract from their real plan: rebuilding the Italian Empire.

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2 years

Cavusoglu: why the hell would we even want to buy planes if we couldn’t use them to violate Greek airspace?

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4 years

If anyone is looking for a nice detailed map of late Ottoman administrative boundaries...

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8 years

Nationality map of Constantinople, from a 1922 Robert College study

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7 years

A series of maps showing locations in Turkey that have been re-named over the past century

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2 years

Yes, crazy that the President of Turkey explicitly threatening an imminent invasion of Greece has led some people in DC to discuss that possibility

Rich Outzen

@RichOutzen

2 years

Interesting genre of fantasy fiction literature circulating in DC these days. Scenario is imminent Turkish invasion of Greece, Cyprus, & possibly New Jersey if we don't stop them now. In a world with pressing & real problems, distraction via fantasy can have therapeutic value.

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3 years

This gives the impression that everything on the blue side of the color scale is majority Russian

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3 years

Biden should recognize the Armenian genocide because it happened, and because recognition is so important to many people who continue to live with its trauma....

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

Senators call on Biden to officially recognize Armenian Genocide

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1 year

Ankara has mastered the art of creating problems and leveraging them to partially reverse the damage done by the previous problems it created

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5 years

I think* this is roughly the region where if you're from here and you write a novel or memoir and you're a woman the editor is definitely going to want to slap a pomegranate on the cover

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4 years

wait till they find out who built ayasofya

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3 years

There's no contradiction between recognizing the Armenian genocide and acknowledging the suffering of Ottoman Muslims.

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4 years

Trump can declare victory, but it's not official until Erdogan calls to congratulate him.

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2 years

Remarkable that Erdogan would bury the real case against Khashoggi's killers to reconcile with Saudi Arabia but not give up the fake case against Kavala to improve ties with the US

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3 years

Can't believe I missed this fantastic map from Cem Dinlenmiş

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6 years

if anyone wants key election takeaways: * Erdogan won * in an unfair competition * no one knows what will happen next * but it will probably be bad

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3 years

a quick recap of last weeks debate Biden: genocide Turkish politicians: leave it to the historians Historians: it was genocide Turkish twitter: go to hell

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2 years

Ironically, the presence of such a large Left-wing and Kurdish diaspora in Sweden is partly the result of Washington backing previous authoritarian regimes in Turkey for the sake of preserving NATO unity

Sweden’s Nato ambitions run into Kurdish row

Turkish opposition leaves Stockholm government with hard choices over the Kurdish cause

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"If Imamoglu wins on June 23, Turkey may become an example of how democracy can begin to prevail against polarizing politics, unfettered populism, and religious nationalism"

Turkish Democracy Is Still Alive

And the Istanbul elections show how.

foreignpolicy.com

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4 years

Turkey boasting about the number of per capita churches relative to its Christian population is pretty fucking dark

Anadolu English

@anadoluagency

4 years

[ Infographic] #Turkey boasts 5 times more places of worship for different faiths than the West

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4 years

Is it logical Turkey gets all of Anatolia? Is it logical Mexico gets the entire Baja peninsula or Brazil gets the entire Amazon river? What does logic have to do with any of this?

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@NicholasDanfort Is this logically acceptable?

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A decade or so ago I started a book about how Turkey became a democracy & NATO ally. Its grown to include fake Ottoman history, the relationship between nudity & modernity (complicated), beekeeping & whether ideas matter (they don't). Please check it out

The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and...

www.amazon.com

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Süleyman Soylu: Is there anything like LGBT+ in our past? Ottoman historians: Well...

What Ottoman erotica teaches us about sexual pluralism | Aeon Ideas

Sex before sexual identity: what Ottoman erotica teaches about pleasure, pluralism, and their liberating possibilities

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Cumhuriyet

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Süleyman Soylu: "Bizim geçmişimizde LGBT+ gibi şeyler var mı? Var da biz mi bilmiyoruz? Bunlar Batı'da olan şeyler"

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4 years

Population Density in the Middle East

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A 19th century map showing travel times across the entire Ottoman Empire.

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If the economy was Erdogan’s Achilles heel, it looks like nationalism remains the Stygian waters in which he’s bathed.

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2 years

I hope Americans who haven't been following Osman Kavala's case will take a minute to read this and appreciate the sheer absurdity of the charges for which he was just given an aggravated life sentence

Locking up dissidents, Turkish style: the saga of Osman Kavala

The accusation that Osman Kavala supported both the Gülen movement and the Gezi movement was outlandish from the outset.

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6 years

An incredibly detailed map of wine production in Turkey from 1951

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7 years

A comprehensive Turkish Cheese Map from Artun Unsal's incredible Sut Uyuyunca [While Milk Sleeps]:

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1 year

Aliyev propagandists really doubling down on the claim that it’s not ethnic cleansing if you do it on your own territory

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4 years

Update: After ending briefly in the early 90's, History has now accelerated past its breaking point.

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5 years

Perfection: the US can never back a coup, because when the US backs it its not a coup anymore

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Bolton: "This is clearly not a coup" since U.S. recognizes Guaido

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Incredible how the administration has staked out a position on Gaza that seems at once immoral and impotent.

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11 months

Azerbaijan renames a street in Stepanakert after Enver Paşa.

ibrahim Haskoloğlu

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Azerbaycan, Ermenistan’dan temizlediği Hankendi’bin bir caddesinin adını Enver Paşa caddesi olarak değiştirdi.

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4 years

okay, prosecuting people for calling this guy bald might meet the formal definition of Orwellian

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2 years

Escalation in the Aegean as both Greece and Turkey reiterate their conflicting claims to Greek territory

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5 years

Can’t tell if this is just a stupid joke or some pointed geopolitical commentary

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People will have quibbles, but this is a really elegant attempt to accurately map the Ottoman Empire in 1875

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4 years

Erdogan: we see our future in the EU and just to prove it were sending the Oruc Reis back into EU waters today

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Leave it to Erdogan and the French to team up for the most annoying possible clash of civilizations

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4 years

In conclusion, it's surreal that while Turkey is brutalizing its own citizens and sabotaging US foreign policy goals some people are still trying to have a serious conversation about a reset.

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One of my main takeaways from studying history is that things which are very bad can always get much worse and that the difference between very bad and much worse is a real and significant one for the people affected.

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At the point senior Greek officials start saying "Turkey's failure to implement Lausanne with regard to Christian rights in Istanbul calls the city's sovereignty into question" I'll start talking about mutual escalation

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So Turkey arrested an innocent guy, the US offered to compromise its values to free him, Turkey demanded more, the US imposed sanctions bc he was Christian, Turkey's economy tanked, then he finally got released. And this is still the best news for US-Turkish relations in ages...

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4 years

Hope this clears up any lingering geopolitical questions:

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Nothing conveys a sincere desire to live in harmony with someone like putting up a giant billboard taunting them for not wanting to live in harmony

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We are ready! How about Armenians?

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Finally, the world can go back to criticizing American leadership rather than the lack of it.

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5 years

Burj Al Babas: weirder in the snow, way weirder in real life.

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3 years

I understand why diplomats need to be pragmatic and positive but I don't understand the benefits of sounding delusional.

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Kudos to Kalin for calling out America’s Afghanistan policy and his own governments Syria policy in the same tweet:

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If you were buying an expensive ad in Times Square to communicate something to Americans you’d think you’d write it in English...

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3 years

Fetullahçı Terör Örgütü'nün #15Temmuz darbe girişimi Times Meydanı'nda anlatıldı

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Can we forget about the Foucauldian critique for a second and just focus on how cool this 1935 İdeal Cumhuriyet Köyü Planı is?

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5 years

Celal Bayar in Vegas, 1954

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Part of a 1938 public health map:

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1 year

Now available in hard copy or free online: Turkey’s New Foreign Policy

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Honestly someone should write one of those ridiculous explainers about how, going back to foundational texts like the Iliad and Antigone, Western cultures have long viewed interfering with funerary rites as a particularly cruel and despotic act

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Really though if people in Turkey are upset about a smaller country exploiting the quirks of geography to deny a much larger one access to the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, maybe they should have another chat with Russia about the Bosporus.

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6 years

Capitalists versus Workers chess set given by Stalin to Ismet Inonu

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4 years

I tried to FOIA my wedding invite to find out more but without much luck

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3 years

So Erdogan reigned in his foreign policy just enough to get a free pass from the EU for a new crackdown on democracy, then decided to blow up the economy himself?

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Turkey said it was going to buy the S-400s. America said it was going to impose sanctions. I'd just like to applaud both countries for doing what they said.

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2 years

@dlepeska @laurapitel Yes, specifically the side that has threatened to invade the other.

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7 years

How many people were arrested while campaigning for stay?

Hilâl Kaplan

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So, UK deciding to leave EU with %51 is OK but when we decide to change our government system with %51 it is illegitimate? #TurkeyReferendum

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7 years

Fascinating map showing the presumed ethnic composition of the 1908 Ottoman Parliament. Source and more info here:

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5 years

Hard at work by the Black Sea, still scanning the horizon for any sign of the boat bringing the S-400s

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4 years

a friend just casually referred to the US consulate in Istanbul as krak des chevaliers and its going to be hard to unsee

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A turn of the century Armenian map of the Ottoman Empire printed in Venice:

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Ill say it again: the US didnt owe the Syrian Kurds indefinite military support. We did owe them a coherent, competent policymaking process

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6 years

Still trying to figure out what to do with my Adnan Menderes decorative carpet

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It’s a particularly beautiful and well executed map, which suggests a fair amount of thought went into these choices. Anyways I appreciate that Free Palestine gets to keep the Golan heights.

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Sir Richard Burton, orientalist extraordinaire, packs more offense into a single paragraph than I ever thought possible.