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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Istanbul’s Orthodox community marks the birth and baptism of Jesus of Nazareth. 2025 epiphany ceremony held by the Fener Greek Patriarchate on the cold waters of the Golden Horn. 🎄 ⛪️ 🎉

Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

2025 will be the 1700th anniversary of the First Nicene Council. Pretty little Anatolian town for history fans and tile lovers. #nicenecreed #iznik

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I contributed to an edited collection on the Black Sea based on an excellent conference we held in Wien back in 2020. @univie.ac.at To read my chapter (Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 – 91) see the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social link below. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 –91

Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 –91 was published in Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region on page 165.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Rough times will pass. Happy thanksgiving, so long, and thanks for all the turkey 🦃

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

www.yirmidort.tv/gundem/baede... This is still Ethem Sancak’s TV channel no? @heissenstat.bsky.social Used to make ferry rides in Istanbul a truly Orwellian experience 🧐

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BAE'de İsrailli hahamı öldüren 3 Özbekistan vatandaşı İstanbul'da yakalandı

Haberin devamı için tıklayınız...

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This statement, from the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirms that Turkey cooperated w/ the UAE in arresting & extraditing the 3 Uzbeks who killed Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE. The attackers may have thought they’d be safe in Turkey. But their extradition reflects strengthened UAE-Turkey ties.

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Adam Hanieh's "Laundering Carbon" exposed the hollow politics behind fossil-centered states' excitement on the carbon trading market, which are amounting to a string of land grabs in Africa with terrible results for indigenous communities.

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Laundering Carbon—The Gulf’s ‘New Scramble for Africa’ - MERIP

Carbon offsets are changing the relationship between the Middle East and the African continent.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Last day of the conference in Boston @aseees.bsky.social. If you’re still around, come join our roundtable at Simmons (3rd floor - 12:00pm-1:45pm). Michaela Papa, Anton Fedyashin, Pedram Partovi, Zhen Han and I will be discussing how BRICS fits in the new multi-polar international order.

Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My first time at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA. Gorgeous building, great library but I’m a bit underwhelmed by the museum itself tbh. You can spare about 90 minutes for the whole tour, including 2 short movies that last for about 30 minutes.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Looking forward to our panel with Serhii Plokhii, Mark Steinberg, Frank Sysyn and Susan Smith-Peter at the @aseees.bsky.social 56th Convention in Boston this weekend. We'll discuss how textbooks in English have presented Russian and Ukranian historical narratives and how those have at times clashed.

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Annual pilgrimage to Martin’s for Richard Stites - the best advisor and a great human being

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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Cold War Historians...not at all thorough or complete so pleae make suggestions or ask to be added! go.bsky.app/NAWTQUp

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

At the Slovak National Archives in Bratislava.

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if you’re new here, those of us who’ve been on bluesky a while have a LOT of lore to catch you up on that is frankly not very interesting. we’re gonna try to tell you about something called “alf hog” and you’ll be like “wait, that’s it? huh. alright. well, sounds like you had fun.” i can't wait

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024

Been on this platform for over a year now but kept my X acct to follow several pundits/outlets posting in Turkish. Like others, I have noticed the surge of ex-X users moving here since Nov 6th. But what’s interesting is that, my X feed has concurrently turned from revolting to wholly irrelevant.

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Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

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Alexander Christie-Miller @achristiemiller.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The US edition of TO THE CITY spotted in the wild, at a branch if the New York Public Library. You can buy your copy in the US now.

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.

Book cover of "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You can now access the PDF copy of our roundtable with Sergey's thought-provoking response

Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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tnsr.org/roundtable/b.... Meanwhile, here's my response to the Texas National Security Review roundtable on my book, To Run the World. Some reflections here on ideology, legitimacy, economics, and morality in the Cold War. Plus a few ambitious zingers - check it out.

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Book Review Roundtable: The Soviet Search for Recognition as a Superpower - Texas National Security Review

In this roundtable review, Mark Pomar, Kathryn Stoner, Carol Saivetz, Natasha Kuhrt, and Onur İşçi offer their thoughts on Sergey Radchenko's new book, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid fo...

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

two lil’ guests in my office, enjoying their mid-semester break

Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

#Slavin WW2 memorial in Bratislava for fallen Soviet soldiers. It’s perplexing to see how starkly the public opinion is divided in Czechia and Slovakia over the War in Ukraine.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New statue commemorating the victims of the Prague Spring (Invasion of the city by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968) was unveiled this past August near the Kampa Museum. I just had a chance to visit Czech sculptor Jiří Sozanský’s pertinently entitled “August 1968/1969.”

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

crescent & star on crimson sky dot com

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 05/07/2024

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A tweet you still think about

Evan Washington @evane... • 1/12/22
every time i hear about UK current events it's incomprehensibly bonkers. it's always like "Secretary of Finance Lord Billy Frumpton is under fire for allegedly eating toffee"

and every British person
commenting on it is like 4 layers of irony deep and shitposting like no tomorrow. they're posting like "salute to sir toffee frumpton! an utter disgrace and the love of my life"

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Petti Crocker @aquarianairhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

This post has been living rent-free in my head all week. “I would like a SMALL APPLE”

Chubblenauts and other examples of Arctic Excellence (FB page, posted 9/10)

Image is of Moo Deng, a Thai pygmy hippopotamus, and it looks like she’s screaming:

UNHAND ME at ONCE, I am GRUNTILLICUS, I saw the WORLD BORN in the FIRES of the GODFORGE, I cast the DUST which became YOUR BREATH, I would like a SMALL APPLE

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

I moved back to Turkey about a decade ago, and there has been some dark moments. But at the centenary of the republic I am hopeful, not least because there is a new generation but also bright young women who will take this country in the right direction. 🇹🇷 💯 #Atatürk

Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Just received a copy of the recently published - A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey, edited by Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher. This book, to which I contributed with two chapters, is the collective work of numerous great scholars. Happy to be among them. Many thanks, Alp

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Bluesky over the Golden Horn