Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/a...nytimes.comDeniz 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. 110
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. 010
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My book with Gürol Irzik, Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge, is out today: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 171
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusNick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The 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...?theguardian.comThe Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided | EditorialEditorial: The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule 294
Reposted by Faik Kurtulmusbilimakademisi.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Bilgi Üniversitesinin kapatılması hakkında Bilim Akademisi açıklamasına bağlantıdan ulaşabilirsiniz. bilimakademisi.org/bilgi-univer...bilimakademisi.orgBilgi Üniversitesinin kapatılması hakkında açıklama - Bilim AkademisiOtuzuncu kuruluş yılını geçtiğimiz haftalarda çeşitli akademik faaliyetlerle kutlamaya başlayan, binlerce öğrenci ve akademisyen yetiştirmiş olan, Türkiye’nin köklü kurumlarından Bilgi Üniversitesinin... 012
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusJan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Just 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.academic.oup.comFlourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good SocietyAbstract. 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 74417
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Which 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. 030
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026It 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....robertpaulwolff.blogspot.comETYMOLOGICAL 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 ... 110
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I was listening to this beautiful song this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgN3...youtube.comVic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My LifeYouTube video by the neighbors dog 110
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026b) 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. 031
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Two 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. 130
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Two 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. 120
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026New paper: philpapers.org/archive/KURS... Part n of me slowly realizing how complicated science-based policymaking in a democracy is.philpapers.org 1153
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusJan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I 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...jacobin.comFor Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently SocialCentral to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others. 0113
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusJournal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 02/07/20258. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by @berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn 252
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusYlenia 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.socialnewlinesmag.comTurkey’s AI-Powered Protest CrackdownDocuments show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing 12615
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...newlinesmag.comTurkey’s AI-Powered Protest CrackdownDocuments show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing 030
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I 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.eenps.weebly.comHistory and motivationsHow 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... 07124
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusHelen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...helendecruz.substack.comCan’t take it with youI am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is. 60642155
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusMartin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Just 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...politicalphilosophyjournal.org"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and SocialismWhat 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... 14416
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 12/05/2025www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49451/...poetryfoundation.orgA Song on the End of the WorldAs 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. 010
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...programmablemutter.comBlitzscaling for tyrantsThe lightning-fast path to tearing down due process 12512
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/05/2025The 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. 111881269
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Found it: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/In...sourcewatch.orgInternational Conference on Civil Resistance and Power Politics - SourceWatch 000
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025It was a wonderful tribute to to civic courage, human resilience and moral decency. 110
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Gene Sharp spoke, alongside people who had taken part in civil resistance in their own countries—including participants from Tiananmen. 100
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025This 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. 100
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere 130
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusEngelliWeb @engelliweb.com · 20/04/2025Bluesky 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... 23520
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...youtube.comHow Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIREDYouTube video by WIRED 020
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusLisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Seeing 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...theatlantic.comWe 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. 615068
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusSebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025We 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... 02613
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Here are two data points to put their bravery in perspective: 100
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDI...youtube.comNeden eylemdesin? | Saraçhane'den sokak izlenimleriYouTube video by +90 100
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This classic paper by @timurkuran.bsky.social argues that political revolutions are inherently unpredictable: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgNow out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 | World Politics | Cambridge CoreNow out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 - Volume 44 Issue 1 030
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusDr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025An 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! 04813
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I 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 Caneyrepository.cam.ac.ukJustice as an ideal for climate assessmentConfronting 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... 2499
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/kulturka...open.substack.comTurkey ResistsBy arresting İmamoğlu, Erdoğan banks on public apathy. He's getting the opposite. 070
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...youtube.comTom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)YouTube video by SPianista 010
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusAdam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I 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.open.substack.comDiaryWeek 1 16443162
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusTayfun Sönmez @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025In 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 🥇 051
Reposted by Faik KurtulmusBritish Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The 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 295
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Abizadeh's "The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over" is very helpful doi.org/10.1177/0032.... 050
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 19/01/2025What if the farce and the tragedy can be simultaneous? 000
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025youtu.be/HLreaAQA9kA?...youtu.beNaomi Watts, Laura Dern & Patricia Arquette Tell David Lynch Stories | W magazineYouTube video by W Magazine 0195
Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Sophie Smith at the LRB, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 000