Rich getting richer everywhere…

Marches today in Argentina protesting Milie's cuts to public education were massive

Organizers in Buenos Aires alone claim 600,000 people showed up to march

Yaygınlaştırmanız dileğiyle: Koç Sosyoloji'ye bu yıl ilk sosyoloji yüksek lisans öğrencilerimizi alacağız. Son başvuru tarihi: 12 Mayıs.

Long live Turkish Parliament! ❤️🤍🇹🇷
As of today, 104 years old!!!🎊🌟🙌
Here is me and my students from South Dakota visiting the earliest sites of parliamentary democracy in Turkey. Lots of great memories… 🥰

Turkish-Germans discovered the 1st COVID vaccine in the world; some were movie directors who won awards on behalf of Germany, numerous writers, musicians, intellectuals from Turkey call Germany home.
Of all these, the 🇩🇪 president chose the kebab maker to accompany him to 🇹🇷

🧵1) A reminder of what russian “liberation” truly is. Destruction and terror. Lush forests turned to black wooden trunks. Parks to graveyards, residential areas and homes to ruins, There’s nothing russia won’t destroy, including lives of others. A thread of the before & after

China and Russia are the perfect symbiotic relationship. China imports huge amounts of Russian energy (red) and exports tons of goods to Russia (blue) that keep its war economy going. This surge in trade only began after Russia invaded Ukraine. China is Putin's biggest enabler...

On May Day next week, I’ll be giving a talk for Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program on protest music and psychedelic rock in Turkey! I’ll be close reading songs by Fikret Kızılok, Selda Bağcan, and Cem Karaca between the global counterculture and militant politics. This time you can also join by Zoom!

Spain and Greece are pressured to give Ukraine their air defense systems as they are not under immediate threat, the FT writes.

Collectively they have over a dozen Patriot systems, while Ukraine has at least 3. They also have S-300 systems which Ukraine knows how to use well.

I watched Putin’s warmongering Simonyan and all I got is: they have Moldova next in line, after Ukraine 🇺🇦 falls…

This could’ve stopped when Russia intervened and carved out two pieces of Georgia 🇬🇪 The international community didn’t do anything back then. And here we are…

Capitalism going bunkers!
If thousands are laid off, how could the CEO be considered successful?

This amount is just 5 billion short of the US aid to Ukraine… Tesla board must’ve lost all sense of proportion.

Chair Senator Ben Cardin issued a statement after the Biden Administration announced it will reimpose oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela, under the provisions of the Barbados Agreement.

Read the Chair's full statement ⬇️
foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…

In today's #vatniksoup REBREW, I'll introduce an American propagandist and social media personality, Max Blumenthal (@maxblumenthal). He's best-known for his great admiration towards authoritarian regimes, and for launching the fake news blog @TheGrayZoneNews.

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thebookseller.com/rights/barbara… Finally the tale can be told. The Turkish Detective (Ikmen) coming to BBC2 later this year.

Özyeğin Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde dopdolu bir Nisan ayı.
Hepinizi bekleriz 👇🏽

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Özyeğin University Dept of International Relations

Last call/Son çağrı #1

Saudi Arabia is trying to “sportswash” its image by hosting prestigious international sporting events.
However, women’s tennis is a bridge too far. Women in Saudi Arabia are treated as second class citizens under male guardianship. It’s a shame the Association agreed to this deal

We are looking for a new team to lead our journal Political Studies Review. This is an exciting opportunity for a new team of editors to build and develop both the journal’s reputation and their own research or scholarship profiles.

Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/call-…