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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Centre of Development Studies is organising five seminar series events this term. The series launches tomorrow 13/10 from 5-6:30pm with Courtney T Wittekind, Purdue, on 'Beyond the Boom: Agrarian Life and Uncertain Futures in Peri-Urban Myanmar'. More: www.devstudies.cam.ac.uk/events/beyon...

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Euphrates poplar in Alicante, Spain, on the banks of Acequia Mayor! What a special encounter I had yesterday! #firatkavagi #euphratespoplar

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yes, and considering the recent developments in Tr as well as Syria, him accepting the post is not surprising either..

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Journalist Fehim Tastekin @fehimtastekin.bsky.social explained that Abdi had not been willing to take an offical post; instead wanted to establish a new political party. But neither Damascus nor Ankara wanted Abdi to have any real power... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WodE... (english audio available)

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Shocking and devastating loss of compañero Javier Sánchez, leading figure en La Via Campesina! "May the seeds of Javier and Esther, now in the earth and forever in our hearts, grow into forests and fields teeming with life. Farewell, comrades!" viacampesina.org/en/2026/08/u...

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Until Always, Javier and Esther

Amidst the profound sadness of Javier and Esther's loss, we believe that their example and legacy will continue to beat strongly throughout the peasant movement for food sovereignty.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yaşasın ne tatlı bir eşlikçi katılıyor hayatınıza canım! Gidenler ve gelenlerle birlikte iyi geliyoruz birbirimize😗

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Senate House, Cambridge

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

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Odyssey to Africa’s last colony

Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...

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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Applications are invited for a 3-year, non-renewable, Academic Career Development Fellow in the global politics/international relations of the Middle East and North Africa, or of South Asia. For more information and to apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55579/

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Super excited to host Anand Vaidya @anandvaidya.bsky.social for a talk on his brilliant book Future of the Forest! Please join us if you are in town.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"For the Israeli government, reconstruction provides leverage. [...] Israel can ensure that reconstruction remains a perpetual ‘project’. The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves,[...], embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So brave

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The approximately 47 million barrels of oil were taken to Israel via Turkey, with tracking signals disabled and false destinations listed, meaning the shipments were carried out in secret and in direct violation of Turkey’s trade embargo on Israel.

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Exclusive: Greek ships secretly supplying Israel with oil and military cargo

Shadow ships are turning off their signals and filing false destinations to supply Israel via Turkey

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

What people in Tehran woke up to. They are breathing this now. This war has to end before it’s too late for all of us.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Ziyaretçilerinden biri mezarına bir parliament sigara iliştirmis, yanına da not düşmüş: Biz şarkıları seninle sevdik Ahmet abi 🥹 Geleni gideni, ziyaret edeni bol oluyormuş, mezarı hemen hiç çiceksiz kalmıyormuş.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Please do register for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/queens-cds...

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thrilled to kick off our Development Studies Annual Lectures with @triofrancos.bsky.social! Join us this Sunday at 5pm! (on the International Women's Day ✌️)

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

What a powerful closing to this amazing episode, with Peter Linebaugh reciting The Goose and the Common! "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose"

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Delighted to host Omar Jabary Salamanca on Thursday for this super important talk on the 1979 strike by Palestinian workers at the Jerusalem Electricity Company. All welcome!

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Super excited to host @karsohini.bsky.social this Thursday as part of the Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series @campolis.bsky.social. All welcome!

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"Those of us with platforms, with some level of protection, with some social capital or actual capital, must dare to shift the culture, and not only talk about the necessity of shifting the culture. Because Gaza cannot fight the empire on its own."

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"Such bravery is asked of us now, not when gardens grow over our martyr's graves, not when the debris is swept up and sculpted into memorials, and not when the bloodied press vests of our fallen journalists rest eternally in shadow boxes."

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"this consequential moment calls on us to raise the ceiling of what is permissible, that it demands we renew our commitment to the truth, to spitting the truth, unflinchingly, unabashedly, cleverly, no matter in what conference room, no matter in whose face." Şükran, Mohammed el-Kurd!

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Omar Souleyman'dan sonra, tulum eşliğinde Hemşin horonunun elektronik müzik festivallerinin gözdesi olacağı günleri bekliyorum.

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm

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Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute

Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Join us for Vincent Guermond's @vincentguermond.bsky.social talk on the “green finance” agenda and the ways in which it exacerbates climate precarity and harm. Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible" NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

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Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis

Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I have missed you, Chicago. This love letter makes me miss you all the more.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I mention these not to take away from the joy, radical hope, or tears of happiness today, but as a humble reminder to treat this amazing day as a beginning of ever-growing, collective and determined struggle.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

And Ekrem İmamoğlu, the elected mayor of Istanbul and the opposition’s presidential candidate, has been unlawfully in prison for eight months. He won the (re-run) Istanbul elections in 2019 with a landslide victory, ending the AKP’s long rule over Turkey’s largest city.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Selahattin Demirtaş, Kurdish political leader and then co-chair of HDP, has been unlawfully imprisoned for 9 years. He was leading figure in 2015 election campaign, when HDP crossed the national threshold for 1st time, preventing single-party govt&Erdoğan’s push for greater presidential powers.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The struggle indeed needs to continue, as political experience from Turkey has long taught us. We’ve learned that despots become fiercely revengeful, when they are terrified, as Zohran Mamdani powerfully expresses, "by the dismantling of the very conditions that allowed them to accumulate power.”

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Let’s fully and collectively celebrate this victory! Collectively, bc this is as much about NYC and New Yorkers as it is far beyond it. Fully, bc there're few things better than crying w/ happiness and radical hope. As the Gezi resistance chants: “This is only the beginning.The struggle continues!”

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Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

How much we missed you! 💜

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Ordered a copy few days ago. Can't wait to read and teach with it!

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