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Faik Kurtulmus

@faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
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Political philosopher at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Working on distributive epistemic justice, political philosophy of science & freedom of expression. philpeople.org/profiles/faik-kurtul…

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Deniz Goktas, Jailed in Turkey for a Joke, Delivers a Bold Defense in Court (Gift Article)
Facing 19 months in prison, Deniz Goktas says in an interview that he made his bold statement as a way to show what an artist could endure.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was made possible by the kindness of many people who commented on the book and whose encouragement kept us going. I am very grateful.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My book with Gürol Irzik, Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge, is out today: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge by Faik Kurtulmus and Gürol Irzik. The top two-thirds shows a section of Charles Booth's poverty map of London's East End. Below it, the title, authors' names, and series name, "New Topics in Applied Philosophy."
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Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Guardian's editorial on recent developments in Turkey. "Mr Erdoğan has presented himself as the solution to problems he created...Democracy does not disappear overnight; it is chipped away over months, years and decades." theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
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The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided | Editorial
Editorial: The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule
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bilimakademisi.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Bilgi Üniversitesinin kapatılması hakkında Bilim Akademisi açıklamasına bağlantıdan ulaşabilirsiniz. bilimakademisi.org/bilgi-univer...
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Bilgi Üniversitesinin kapatılması hakkında açıklama - Bilim Akademisi
Otuzuncu kuruluş yılını geçtiğimiz haftalarda çeşitli akademik faaliyetlerle kutlamaya başlayan, binlerce öğrenci ve akademisyen yetiştirmiş olan, Türkiye’nin köklü kurumlarından Bilgi Üniversitesinin...
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Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online: academic.oup.com/book/62523 In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.
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Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society
Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Which got me thinking how nice it is to give to others and how people like Chestnut and Wolff have managed to do that even after their passing. Also how sad it is that we have the option of organizing our societies to have more of that but we fail to.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It has a line: "Oh, death you hector me, decimate those dear to me", which reminded me of the late Robert Paul Wolff and this post: robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2018/08/etym....
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ETYMOLOGICAL ARCANUM
“Decimate” is now used as a synonym for “wipe out” or “obliterate” but that is not its original meaning.   Two thousand years ago, when a ...
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I was listening to this beautiful song this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgN3...
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Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life
YouTube video by the neighbors dog
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
b) if we want science-based policies that remain democratically accountable, we need to think seriously about the incentives of scientific advisors and politicians, and limitations of the public. Ultimately, we need to think about institutions.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Two studies each making a "moderately cautious" adjustment can combine into an aggregate that is far more cautious than any democratic mandate supports, without anyone having made a mistake.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Two thoughts: (a) value-laden choices in different studies interact, so getting them right one study at a time is not enough — and sometimes not even necessary.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New paper: philpapers.org/archive/KURS... Part n of me slowly realizing how complicated science-based policymaking in a democracy is.
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Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong. jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...
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For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social
Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by @berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE - How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn
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Ylenia Gostoli @yleniagostoli.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...
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Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.
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History and motivations
How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025
Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
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Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism " Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists! politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
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"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism
What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49451/...
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A Song on the End of the World
As long as the sun and the moon are above, As long as the bumblebee visits a rose, As long as rosy infants are born No one believes it is happening now.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...
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Blitzscaling for tyrants
The lightning-fast path to tearing down due process
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/05/2025
The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending. She cannot be freed soon enough.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Found it: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/In...
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International Conference on Civil Resistance and Power Politics - SourceWatch
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It was a wonderful tribute to to civic courage, human resilience and moral decency.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Gene Sharp spoke, alongside people who had taken part in civil resistance in their own countries—including participants from Tiananmen.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This reminded me of a conference I attended ages ago as a graduate-student assistant. I was embarrassingly clueless about the speakers, but it was possibly the most inspiring event I’d ever attended.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere
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Cenk Ozbay @cenkozbay.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
yarın!
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EngelliWeb @engelliweb.com · 20/04/2025
Bluesky sansüründe son durum: • 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi. • 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı. • 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı. ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...
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How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar. With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We Study Repression in Turkey. Now We See It Here.
The detention of a Tufts graduate student echoes the violation of rights in her home country.
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Sebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social We also discuss what may come next: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A bar chart titled 'Prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, 2021, 2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 100 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants for both years. Turkey stands out with the highest figures, exceeding 300 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in both 2021 and 2022, significantly above the EU average.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Here are two data points to put their bravery in perspective:
A bar chart titled 'Police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, average 2020-2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 350 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. Turkey stands out with one of the highest figures, exceeding 600 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, significantly above the EU average. O
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDI...
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Neden eylemdesin? | Saraçhane'den sokak izlenimleri
YouTube video by +90
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This classic paper by @timurkuran.bsky.social argues that political revolutions are inherently unpredictable: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 | World Politics | Cambridge Core
Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 - Volume 44 Issue 1
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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end. Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas. Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası. Resisting with style!
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney
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Justice as an ideal for climate assessment
Confronting a series of planetary crises, the international community has established a complex regime of global environmental assessments. The most prominent of these remains the Intergovernmental Pa...
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Turkey Resists
By arresting İmamoğlu, Erdoğan banks on public apathy. He's getting the opposite.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...
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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)
YouTube video by SPianista
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Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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Diary
Week 1
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Tayfun Sönmez @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In these difficult times, we find solace in the achievements of our partners in Malatya, Turkey, who performed their fifth 6-way liver exchange today 👏 Having performed 29 LE transplants in 2025 through the Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, they are on track to surpass their record of 122 in 2024 🥇
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Çok sağol Kerim Can.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp - @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the strategic logic of China's censorship regime, arguing that freedom of expression aids in overcoming coordination problems and enhancing collective power, but requires reliable public sources of information and equal opportunities for public participation.
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Abizadeh's "The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over" is very helpful doi.org/10.1177/0032....
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What if the farce and the tragedy can be simultaneous?
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
youtu.be/HLreaAQA9kA?...
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Naomi Watts, Laura Dern & Patricia Arquette Tell David Lynch Stories | W magazine
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Sophie Smith at the LRB, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But speaking up isn’t easy and the hard distinction between the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’, makes these conversations even more difficult. Patriarchy does not mean that men cannot act decently, and kindly, indeed that the men in our lives may not sometimes be better and more reliable than the women. But it does mean that there are no men, no people, who can ever claim to be entirely beyond its reach. It is always there in the background, incentivising, rewarding and giving cover to good men who decide, however briefly, not to be.

The point here is not that all men are rapists-in-waiting, nor that all women who put their trust in men are at risk. The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw. (It is not just women who suffer here: consider the man who really does just want to read to his daughter.) How many women have wondered whether a behaviour should be interpreted as a warning or instead as something they can safely ignore – perhaps even participate in and enjoy? Women in this situation are not helped by the tendency of men to get defensive, to use their comparative ‘goodness’ (‘I’m not that guy’) to shut down these conversations. (Many French men have expressed fury at the attempt to use Dominique Pelicot to start a national conversation about sexism.) It is certainly possible that the man who gets off on ‘sleeping girl’ porn or who sleeps with much younger women is not a creep. But if he is not to be, then might he need to be the guy who takes this sceptical scenario seriously, who is open to a conversation about where these desires might come from and what they might mean? If t
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