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İlkay Yılmaz

@ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social
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Ottoman historian| author “Ottoman Passports- Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908” | FU-Berlin| DFG-PI

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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Delighted to deliver the keynote speech at the Ottoman Mobilities Symposium organized by @thebiaankara.bsky.social and @sabanciuniversity.bsky.social My sincere thanks to the organizer @peterjcherry.bsky.social for the invitation and for such a stimulating and well-organized event.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you’re in Istanbul, come join us! I’ll be giving the keynote lecture, “Between Mobility and Control: Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire,” on Monday. @thebiaankara.bsky.social @aytekalpan.bsky.social @petercherry.bsky.social
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Very much looking forward to giving the keynote at the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium and to the discussions it will open up!
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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🔔 Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium 🗣 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED! Dr İlkay Yılmaz (Freie Universität Berlin) will give the keynote lecture at the upcoming OM&I Symposium (13-14 April, Istanbul), focused on "Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire."
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Looking forward to read Owen Miller’s new book! #ottomanempire #mountains @universitypress.cambridge.org
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I’m grateful for this thoughtful note, @alanlester.bsky.social It’s encouraging to see the article engaging readers across different fields. @journalgenocide.bsky.social
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My new open access article: “Security Memory, Knowledge Production, and State Formation: The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire (1876–1908),” Journal of Genocide Research. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Security Memory, Knowledge Production, and State Formation: The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire (1876–1908)
This article examines the securitization of the Armenian question through an analysis of the understudied security policies and practices of the late Ottoman empire. Moving beyond abstract formulat...
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This time in Napoli! www.unior.it/it/eventi/ot...
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Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Loved moderating Prof. Berberian & Prof. Grigor on their inspiring book “Armenian Women, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity“(@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025) at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. A fascinating mix of political, gender, and art history. Don’t miss their Europe tour!
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Join us at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social on 20 Oct 2025 for the book talk: 📘 The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 @stanfordpress.bsky.social by Houri Berberian & Talinn Grigor. www.zmo.de/en/events/th...
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The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979
Book Talk: The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025 With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn...
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Excited to join Napoli L’Orientale as a guest professor to teach on Ottoman migrations! Looking forward to this new adventure. Thanks to Lea Nocera to for this opportunity!
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Not surprising: “German Academia after October 7: Self-Censorship and Restrictions of Academic Freedom among MENA Scholars” www.interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...
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New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Pleasure to be part of this great conference! Many thanks to Jordi Tejel Gorgas for the kind invitation.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Gaza famine: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-…
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Gaza famine: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve
Amid a man-made famine, starving Palestinian families face the unthinkable: children and the elderly begging for bread, parents praying for death and a world watching in silence
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Toplumsal Tarih’in yeni sayısına “Göç, Evraklar ve Şiddet (1876-1908)” başlıklı yazımla bu sefer ben de küçük bir katkıda bulundum👇
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk titled “The Armenian Question in the Ottoman East: Security, Violence, and Knowledge Production” as part of the Dynamics of Security Collaborative Research Center’s Fellow Talks series at Marburg University. Looking forward to the discussion! @sfb138.bsky.social
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A third wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?
Less than 30 years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characteri...
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
70 per cent of the world’s population now live in dictatorships, according to this year’s report on democracy from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg. v-dem.net/media/public...
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The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association @andottoman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Excellence in Middle East Studies — something Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer personify— is being sacrificed at the altar because the boards of these schools wager not many people will care and it will satisfy the barbarians at the gates. They’re wrong on both counts.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who came to Turkey to follow the protests, was arrested and sent to Maltepe Prison.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey
Mark Lowen was covering the protests in Istanbul when he was arrested and later deported back to the UK, the BBC has said.
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Dr Jennifer Redmond @jenniferredmond.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Another packed house for another @hiddencostaction.bsky.social member @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social speaking about her fascinating work on Ottoman passports @esshc.bsky.social at another great conference session
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Education and Science Workers’ Union backed students’ boycott with a one-day strike. Now, the government is investigating the union, and this morning, my dear colleague Dr.Levent Dölek was taken into custody. @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Education and Science Workers’ Union decided to go on strike at universities in solidarity with the students in Turkey. www.evrensel.net/haber/547754...
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Akademisyenlerden öğrencilerin boykotuna destek: Eğitim Sen’li akademisyenler iş bırakıyor - Evrensel
İBB Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun gözaltına alınarak tutuklanmasının ardından öğrencilerin başlattığı boykota akademisyenlerden destek geldi. Eğitim Sen’li akademisyenler 25 Mart’ta iş bırakıyor.
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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Lawyers in Gaziantep organised a march to protest the court's decision to remove the president of the Istanbul Bar Association and its board members from their duties. Police barricaded the area and are not allowing the Gaziantep lawyers to march.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
1,133 people were detained during the protests between March 19 and 23. www.birgun.net/haber/19-23-...
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19-23 Mart arasındaki eylemlerde 1.133 kişi gözaltına alındı
İçişleri Bakanı Ali Yerlikaya, 19 Mart-23 Mart tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilen eylemlerde 1.133 kişinin gözaltına alındığını duyurdu.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
CHP Istanbul Chair Özgür Çelik was injured during the police intervention.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Chp PM is in the hospital because of the brutal police attack
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William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Interesting piece, echoes what both critical and pro-government pundits have said since Imamoglu's detention. They see Erdogan as emboldened by Trump's return and believe reaction from Nato/EU will be muted due to Turkey's possible role in new security structures. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Erdogan Bets World Will Turn a Blind Eye to Turmoil in Turkey
After his biggest political rival was jailed, the president is banking on his NATO allies needing Turkey more than they need a fight over its democracy.
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Ayse Cavdar @aysecavdar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Mahir Polat'ın tutuklanması, en az İmamoğlu'nun tutuklanması kadar manidar. Alçıpan sevmiyordu çünkü adam, şehrin tarihine sermaye gözüyle bakmıyordu, sahiden önemsiyor, sahiden dert ediyordu. Cezalandırılmasının sebebi de bu. Bir şehrin tarihi nasıl sevilir onu gösteriyordu.
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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Beyond its immediate effects on politics, the decision on the corruption investigation will also have long-standing implications for history writing in TR. Starky irreconcilable media representations of the same event sharpen an already contested landscape of competing histories.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Buğra Gökçe, the head of the Istanbul Planning Agency, has been arrested. His “crime” was revealing the cost of living in Istanbul every month—showing the truth instead of the government’s altered statistics. #imamoğluyalnızdeğildir #istanbul
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Istanbul Governor’s Office has imposed restrictions on entering and leaving the city. The movement of “individuals likely to protest” – whoever they are?! – has been banned. All demonstrations and events have been prohibited until March 27! #istanbul #imamogluyalnizdegildir
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thousands of university students protesting the government in Istanbul!
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Istanbul Bar Association administration has been unlawfully dismissed! Lawyers protesting the decision were attacked by the police! www.birgun.net/haber/istanb...
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İstanbul Barosu Başkanı Kaboğlu ve yönetim kurulunun görevlerine son verildi
İstanbul Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı'nın, İstanbul Barosu yöneticilerinin, kendilerine verilen yetkiyi "amaç dışı" kullandıkları iddiasıyla açtığı ve baro yöneticilerinin görevlerinin sona erdirilmesini t...
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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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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In these difficult days, let’s take a moment to appreciate the beauty of Islamic art. Wishing I could see this stunning exhibition -curated by Dr. Ladan Akbarnia- at the San Diego Museum of Art. www.facebook.com/share/r/19aJ...
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Redirecting...
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I’m deeply sorry to hear about the passing of Feroz Ahmad. He was a pioneering scholar of CUP and made invaluable contributions to the field. I had the privilege of meeting him in person when he joined one of our classes as a guest professor at İstanbul University.RIP www.ntv.com.tr/n-life/sagli...
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Ünlü tarihçi Feroz Ahmad hayatını kaybetti (Feroz Ahmad kimdir?)
Osmanlı ve modern Türkiye tarihinin önde gelen isimlerinden Prof. Dr. Feroz Ahmad yaşamını yitirdi Feroz Ahmad’a Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanlığı liyakat nişanı verilmişti.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
3 year funded PhD positions👇
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Are you still confused? The question is what will be the consequences of this? Nothing? “Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß” www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
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Elon Musk: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß
Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What’s going on, dear BVG? New bus announcement: “Berlin is tough, but sincere.” Then, in English: “Please show respect and be kind to one another.”🤣
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Sevgili Timur Çelik’i kaybetmişiz… Berlin’den Türkiye’ye tanıklık ettiklerini çizdiği resimleri bu dönemin adalet arayışı için hafıza deposunda hepimize selam çakıyor… artigercek.com/guncel/ressa...
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Ressam Timur Çelik vefat etti
Politik çalışmalarıyla tanınan Ressam Timur Çelik vefat etti. Çelik, son olarak Van'da helikopterden atılan köylüleri resmettiği çalışmasıyla dikkat çekmişti.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The 1890 massacre at #WoundedKnee was never a "battle," although it's called that by some settler sites & books. This massacre is the last mention of Indigenous people in some US history books, as though Native people had all been conveniently disposed of and disappeared. /2
Guernica To Wounded Knee, Stan Natchez (1954)
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Dear Nagehan’s brilliant work👇
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
By the end of my first year at university, I had already finished reading all of Shakespeare’s works translated into Turkish. Since then, I’ve sought out his plays wherever I’ve traveled—experiencing them on stages across the world, time and time again.
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