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Esra Demir-Gürsel

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 28/09/2026
#OpenAccess from @globcon.bsky.social - Framing democracy and its opposite: States and banned political parties before the ECtHR - cup.org/4z5kY4D - @esrademir.bsky.social #FirstView
Image of colorful paint lines, from the journal "Global Constitutionalism." There's a hashtag "#OpenAccess" in the upper left corner.
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
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International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour
In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
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Sué González Hauck @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.
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Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit
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Juan Auz @juanauz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance
On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...
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Andrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany? "...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”." Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Nervous Conditions
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
‘I appreciate depreciation’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism
Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...
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Umit Akcay @umitak.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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The Material Foundations of War
Three emerging dynamics in the global economy: slowdown, militarization, and geopolitical tensions
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin." www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...
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America's Imperial Unraveling - Boston Review
Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
When we are all enemies of the state www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Drawing a line under extreme wealth "the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much." www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...
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The human rights case for drawing a line under extreme wealth
An extreme wealth line focuses attention on a simple question: How much is too much?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings. It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article’s abstract, available at the link in the post
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
#Arboreality
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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Rachel Malik | ‘It’s enough now’
My mother would say, simply and unmelodramatically, to anyone she knew well, that she wanted to die: ‘I’ve had...
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?
Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...
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Ertug Tombus @ertugtombus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future" June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI "We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever." futurism.com/google-ceo-c...
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Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Scary... www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Misogyny in the metaverse
Advances in technology and artificial intelligence have created a brave new world – and women are hated here, too.
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Ertug Tombus @ertugtombus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
CCRD Konuşmaları Ali Yalçın Göymen'le Mayıs 20 Salı günü devam ediyor. Berlin'deyseniz bekleriz. @goymenyalcin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @irgac-rls.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I have just heard of the passing of Françoise Hampson. Rest in peace, Françoise Hampson. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
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Françoise Hampson obituary
Human rights lawyer who argued cases challenging the territorial limits of responsibility for military operations
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This week, we had one and only @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social in my Human Rights & Global Governance class. Lys shared valuable insights into the role of special sapporteurs within the UN system, the mandate of the SP on the Right to Food, and the recent report on starvation. @hertiecfr.bsky.social
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
A screenshot of the title (“Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights”) and abstract of the paper available at the link above
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Nazan, Unufak'ı Fındık, Azad, Maro ve Anna'yı anlamaya çalışarak anlatmış. ’Bu dört kadın da anlatıyı kuran, hafızayı taşıyan, hikâyelerinden güç alan karakterler. Romanın gerçek kalbi onlarda atıyor. Belki bu yüzden, Unufak aynı zamanda bir erkeklik eleştirisi.' www.sanatatak.com/o-zaman-cadi...
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O ZAMAN CADILIK - SANATATAK
Bir ailenin, bir dönemin, bir ülkenin tarihini anlatsa da, Unufak özünde bir erkeğin romanı. Anası babası, kardeşleri, karısı, çocukları hep Kevork’un
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Berke Özenç @berkeozenc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/taksim-yasag...
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Taksim yasağı ve Anayasa Mahkemesi kararlarını 'iyi okumak' - Berke Özenç
AYM, iki temel noktanın altını çiziyor; ilki Valiliğin herhangi bir meydanı toplanma özgürlüğüne kategorik ve süresiz olarak kapatamayacağı, ikincisi kısıtlamanın da kabul edilemez olduğu.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
On European human rights, frames, and critique. @jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The rise of end times fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Some wounds, time never heals. #24April1915 Take some time today to read Antaram's Journey by my dear friend, Nazan Maksudyan: www.academia.edu/45188161/_An...
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“Antaram’s Journey,” in Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing, hg. v. Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, Jane O. Newman, Berlin: transcript, 2020, 93-104.
Antaram was from Çengiler, then a large and prosperous village close to the town of Pazarköy, in the vicinity of the city of Bursa, in western Anatolia. Çengiler was a large village of 5,000 inhabitan...
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Or politicians with weapons using force to aid in the resolution of 'political problems'? How nice it would be to read more on this from Graeber, if he would see a distinction between what is administrative and political in the uses of the police.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Günlerdir ne zaman Sırrı Süreyya Önder'i düşünsem, hafızama kazınmış bir yazısını hatırlıyorum: "Kazandılar. Ülke, güvercin kasaplarının darbesine teslim oldu. Çöpçüler, kuşlarla beraber insan ölüleri toplamaya başladı." Yazının tamamını şurada buldum: kedikoprusu1.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/s...
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Sırrı Süreyya Önder – Ecevit, Bekâroğlu, çevre ve insanlık
Dürüstlük zor zamanlarda da insan kalabilmektir. Bekâroğlu ile de dünya görüşlerimiz uyuşmaz ama ben dahil birçok insanın kalbinde müebbeten sevilmeye, sayılmaya mahkûm edilmiştir.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Istanbul last night. Protesters saving another protester from being detained. 📸: @emreorman.bsky.social
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“If I die, I want a loud death,” ... “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School @hertiecfr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Next up! Not one but two #AFAR researchers are joining our next Spring Colloquium session on 23 April! Hear from PI @profccostello.bsky.social and @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social on "Theories of Procedural Fairness and their Implications for Automation." Register here: tinyurl.com/48etxh95
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Yeni gelenlere yapılan şakaları burada anlatıp 'spoiler' vermeyeceğim. Memlekette yaşadığı topluma ve dünyaya sorumluluk hisseden herkesin yolu cezaevlerinden geçtiği için, yaşayarak öğrenme deneyimini elinizden almak istemem." kaosgl.org/haber/yildiz...
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Yıldız Tar’dan Apaçık Radyo’ya mektup: Silivri’den Merhaba Canım
“Bu memlekette gazeteci olmak zihninizin gerisinde sürekli tutuklanma ihtimalini tutmak anlamına geliyor. Ancak bu ihtimalin gerçeğe dönüşmesi, gündelik hayatımızda olağanlaşan birçok iletişim aracınd...
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A very insightful essan: "The world is thus entering a new era in which the rich countries will follow an unusual two-pronged policy. Having jettisoned neoliberal globalization, they’ll now press ahead even more firmly with a project of domestic neoliberalism." jacobin.com/2025/03/what...
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What Comes After Globalization?
The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"Gordon calls this ‘a white response’: it is a response typical of those who had the privilege of being surrounded by scholarship that is not offensive to their being. ... www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racis...
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On racism and how to read Hannah Arendt
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has led to a renewed interest in Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy across the social sciences. Reading Hannah Arendt Her discussion of...
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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
‘They’re using it now against the white people,’ O’Brien told me; ‘the Arab and Muslim communities have been getting it ten times worse.’ I wrote about the four Berlin activists set to be deported for Palestine activism, and Germany's descent into lawlessness in the name of its Staatsräson.
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Harry Stopes | High Bars
Free movement is a foundational right of EU citizens. When expelling a citizen of another member state on the grounds of...
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Last week, Wiebke Judith of @proasyl.de joined our Human Rights & Global Governance class to discuss asylum politics today. It was an eye-opening session on the challenges facing asylum work and how the far right and conservatives have advanced anti-migrant agendas. @hertiecfr.bsky.social
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We've got the numbers. #HandsOff
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Fresh from @jtheilen.bsky.social: Framing Migration in Human Rights on how the ECtHR frames border control measures and legitimizes border regimes. Open-access read! #FramesProject @hertiecfr.bsky.social
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
What is happening in Turkey goes well beyond the detention of Istanbul's mayor and his team on bogus charges. People are resisting the enrenchment of fascism. There are calls for a general strike and an academic boycott.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
University campuses across Turkey have (again) become a major site of protest. Demonstrations today from Istanbul and Ankara to Bursa, Antalya, Trabzon, Mersin. İmamoğlu’s diploma annulment and detention were the catalyst, but are far from the only grievance. www.gazetepencere.com/siyaset/univ...
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Üniversitelerde protesto: Öğrenciler eylemlerini sürdürüyor
İBB Başkanı İmamoğlu ve çok sayıda ismin gözaltına alınmasına karşı tepki eylemleri sürüyor. Üniversite öğrencileri, dün gerçekleştirdikleri eylemlere bugün de devam etti.
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Umit Akcay @umitak.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What a day for Türkiye! I’ve compiled 10 key observations on the economic dimensions of the authoritarian consolidation process in Türkiye: open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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10 Key Insights into the Authoritarian Playbook for Economic Management in Türkiye
10 crucial takeaways on how Türkiye is managing its economy under growing authoritarianism.
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