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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Presented my paper "Beyond Fatalistic Normalisation and Panoramic Gestures: Understanding Anti-Genderism in Turkey and Mexico from a Relational Global South Perspective" at the ECPR General Conference 2026 in Krakow, on the panel "Anti-Gender and Anti-Feminism in Contemporary Politics."

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Bu makale Türkiye’deki güncel siyasi gelişmeleri takip ederek, mevcut iktidarın yargı silahı ve kriminal seçicilik üzerinden otoriter‑popülist tahayyülünü nasıl pekiştirdiğini tartışıyor. CHP’ye yönelik son yargı müdahalesi bu tahayyülün nasıl çalıştığına dair çarpıcı bir örnek oldu.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My article published today examines how lawfare and criminal selectivity reinforces an authoritarian‑populist imagination in Turkey. Judiciary’s move against CHP (main opposition) happening on the same day offers a vivid reminder of how that imagination operates in practice.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My new article, “Navigating Masculinities: The Role of Internalised Oppression and Domination in Gendered Violence Amidst Anti‑Gender Politics,” is now published in the Journal of Men’s Studies. It’s open access via: doi.org/10.1177/1060...

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My new article in Frontiers in Political Science reframes how we can understand gendered violence and anti-genderism in relation to each other within authoritarian populist imagination. #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3389/fpos...

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My new article on possibilities and challenges of engaging men in resisting #antigenderism toward #genderequality and #socialjustice for lasting social transformation is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @springernature.com #openaccess here: rdcu.be/eyoBH

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Trump’s AI-generated Superman post isn’t just a meme. It’s gendered propaganda. When real masculinity falters, political fantasy fills the gap. New post on visual exaggeration and "crisis masculinity" discourse and performance. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/s...

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Superman Trump and the Crisis of Masculinity by Design

On July 10, 2025, the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Superman. He’s shown in the red-and-blue suit, cape flowing, mid-flight. The caption reads: “A T…

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canan coskan @canancoskan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Helin: "Emniyet’in ağır bir yaptırımı var...Kalabalık sokakta özellikle trans kadınları durdurup GBT yapıyorlar. Kalabalığın içinde özellikle beni çağırması kötü hissettiriyor. Kapatılan evlerde ailesiyle görüşmeyen, kalacak başka yeri olmayan insanlar var." kaosgl1.org/haber/izmir-...

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İzmir’de evine kapatma kararı verilen trans kadın Helin: Yatalak arkadaşlarımız var, ne yapacaklar şimdi?

İzmir Bornova Sokağı’ndaki 14 daire hakkında kapatma kararı verildi. Evi hakkında kapatma kararı verilen trans kadınlardan Helin, KaosGL.org’a konuştu.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass & far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert & media commentator. Man Up is out in two months, on September 16. Preorder yours: hubs.ly/Q03jyDHx0 @milleridriss.bsky.social

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Sheffield Migration Research Group @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We have an online panel discussion on climate migration coming up in the Sheffield Migration Research Group. Monday 16 June 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm GMT. Please join us! Details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

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Panel discussion: Climate Migration and Displacement

Panel discussion on Climate Migration an DisplacementPluralising Climate Mobilities: Moving Beyond the North–South DivideAbstract: Climate mobility represents one of the most complex challenges of our...

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Fortunately, it is not regarded as a privilege but a right, as it should be so.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

"Father Moses is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity. Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine." www.bbc.com/news/article....

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Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches

A religion with traditions dating back centuries is attracting young American men.

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

📣 Call for Papers: Workshop “Ancestral Citizenship in Motion: Migration and the Politics of Extraterritorial Belonging” Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025 Workshop Dates: October 13–14, 2025 (Hybrid) Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands 🔗 ace.hypotheses.org/1123

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Call for Papers – Workshop “Ancestral Citizenship in Motion: Migration and the Politics of Extraterritorial Belonging”

In an era marked by shifting migration policies, contested identities, and global reckonings with historical injustice, this workshop interrogates the growing significance of ancestral citizenship as ...

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Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I’m pleased to share that I’ll be co-directing (with Nadine Sika, Sarah Anne Rennick and saloua zerhouni) a workshop this summer for APSA-MENA, focusing on decolonization and intellectual extractivism. The deadline is in a week. Distribute widely and apply! web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In Turkey, HudaPar, which is part of the ruling alliance, has proposed law amendments that target LGBTQ individuals and restrain the sexual lives of many others based on their Islamic beliefs.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I would like to share my latest article in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies on authoritarian populism as a political imagination rather than merely a strategy, with implications for democratic resistance through the case of Turkey: doi.org/10.1332/1478...

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Çağsı @bild.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Ane Brun canceled her concert to support Turkish protesters because the organizing company was pro-government.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Özgür Özel announced that 2.2 million people attended the rally in Maltepe to protest the incumbent authoritarian regime’s crackdown on the opposition.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A survey conducted by KONDA reveals that 73 percent of the public believes protests are justified. Specifically, 21 per cent consider protests fully justified, while 52 per cent find them acceptable, provided they do not disrupt public order.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The leader of the ultranationalist party, which is a leading partner of the incumbent government in Türkiye, accused protesters of being “fascist” supported by external agents. This proves how authoritarian populist imagination works through projections.

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here is Erdogan's biggest problem. According to a poll conducted by KONDA, one of the most prestigious polling companies in Turkey, %73 (%21 supports unconditionally, %52 supports so long as they don't violate the order) thinks that the demonstrations are right. Only %27 thinks that demonstrations+

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Turkish media watchdog, RTÜK, is taking action against media outlets that live-broadcasted Özgür Özel's rally. RTÜK has inflicted a 10-day broadcast suspension on Sözcü TV and issued fines to several other outlets, including Halk TV, Tele 1, and NOW TV. t24.com.tr/haber/rtuk-t...

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RTÜK'ten SZC TV, Halk TV, Tele 1 ve NOW'a ceza yağdı: Özgür Özel mitingini canlı vermek de suç sayıldı!

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Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"European leaders should keep in mind a lesson of the last two decades: that a more openly authoritarian regime in Turkey, like in other states on the borders of the continent, will lead to far less security," writes Freedom House's @nateschenkkan.bsky.social.

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Op-ed | The end of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey

The March 23rd imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is a defining moment, even in a country that has become a global shorthand for autocratization.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 26/03/2025

Protesters in Turkey were defiant on Wednesday despite a crackdown and nearly 1,500 arrests as they marked a week since the start of the country's biggest street demonstrations against the rule of President Erdogan since 2013 ➡️ u.afp.com/Swtz

Riot police (R) stand guard as protesters gather during a rally in support of Istanbul's arrested mayor, near the town hall in Istanbul on March 25, 2025

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

CHP leader Özgür Özel criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's stance on the protests in Türkiye in an interview with the BBC . He says that UK PM Starmer’s silence on the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu is unacceptable. @bbcturkce.bsky.social

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sixth day of protests. University students all over Turkey start an academic boycott on their campuses, start encampments. bsky.app/profile/birg...

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Melike Kökkızıl @melikekokkizil.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The anti-fascist bloc was in Florence’s Santa Maria Novella Square yesterday, protesting the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu and his friends, symbolizing the future of modern Turkey. All the accusations are BASELESS. We demanded government instruments to be neutral and respect the will of ordinary people.

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Humanity of March 24: Turkish revolt against arbitrariness

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Protests all over the country in Turkey tonight, no longer just confined to Istanbul. Riot police out in force.

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Incredible views from the anti-regime protest in Istanbul on day 5 of the #Turkey protests. İmamoğlu shared the video with the following message: “I send my greetings to the millions who demand justice tonight in Saraçhane and in the squares all around my country.”

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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Yeah, I think this was the miscalculation. They didn’t learn after 2019 that even non-CHPs are outraged by power grabs (except against HDP/DEM). And the timing worked internationally, but it also provided a focal point for millions. Older people who might not protest but would show up to vote.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

On the same day Imamoglu is put behind bars, CHP members and voters cast their vote in the party's primary to elect their presidential candidate. Long lines are reported from all over Turkey to vote for Imamoglu in a show of solidarity! bsky.app/profile/birg...

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Burcu Uçaray Mangıtlı @bmangitli.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It seems like they are going with the jail decision against Imamoglu. If the gov. holds early elections and the opposition remains undivided around Imamoglu’s place holder, this tactic can backfire. That is a big “if” but not impossible given the underdog appreciation in Turkey.

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The prosecutor’s office requested the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu within the scope of corruption and terror investigations

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Erol Onderoglu @erolonderoglu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Reporters without Borders (RSF) also denounced the "heavy-handed and completely arbitrary" police violence in İstanbul (Türkiye) against journalists, demanding those responsible be "severely punished"- AFP - Via France24 #EkremImamoglu www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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Protesters rally in Turkey as detained Istanbul mayor arrives in court

Protestors gathered outside an Istanbul courthouse on Saturday where where detained Istanbul Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, faces questioning over allegations of corruption and terror links. The arrest of the...

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What #İstanbul looks like on the fourth night of the #Turkey protests. Tens of thousands of people showed up to demonstrate their support for İmamoğlu.

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Scenes from #Ankara on day 4 of the #Turkey protests. Thousands have gone on the streets again today despite the ban on demonstrations and harsh crackdowns.

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here is the coverage of the latest developments in Turkey in The New York Times with my contribution. I explained to them why this moment is a turning point for Turkish democracy. I also explained the rhetoric of the current situation in Turkey: Whereas Erdogan wants www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/w...

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In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention (Gift Article)

Opponents say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan manipulates the courts and the media to tighten his grip on power, and now is trying to prevent a top contender from running for president.

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