Bloomberg now citing senior white House official says Erdogan has postponed the visit

Irony just died a thousand deaths. Bogazici University’s Erdogan appointed rector who invited police and security forces onto the campus to detain protesting students, arbitrarily dismissed professors and deans is “saddened” by the state of academic freedom on US campuses.

This looks like a must-see exhibit at Howard University.

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Not a good look for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. Where are the women?!

“The guns and I didn’t agree”: For The Washington Post I covered “Revolution and Image-Making in Postcolonial Ghana (1979-1985)” Howard University's @moorlandhu — first-ever U.S. exhibit on photographer Gerald Annan-Forson, who documented Ghana in '70s/'80s wapo.st/49QjRIL

Sadly, the Armenian Genocide or 'the Great Calamity' was commemorated in Turkey by civil society until recenly. Thanks to the democratic opening in the late 90s and the 2000s. The nationalist near consensus in Turkish politics now has led to suppression of such commemorations.

I'm very excited to announce that my new book & audiobook, 'MAGIC PILL: The extraordinary benefits - and disturbing risks - of the new weight loss drugs,' is out next week! To find out what it's about & and what experts have said about it, go to magicpillbook.com

A Turkish-German scientist discovered the most effective COVID vaccine.
A turkish-German moviemaker was nominated for an Oscar.
Millions of guest workers helped build the German “Wirtschaftswunder”.

And the German president brings a döner kebap maker to Turkey 🥙🫠

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!

Immensely privileged today to be able to attend wedding in Neve Shalom synagogue, #Galata . Never been inside before. Surprised how lovely it was & how design reminded me of Galata Mevlevihanesi sema hall. But also sad reminders of deaths in heinous bomb attacks of 1986 and 2003

'The evidence shows armed settlers, with the active participation of army units, raided Palestinian communities, detained, assaulted, and tortured residents, chased them off their lands at gunpoint or coerced them with death threats, blocked them from taking their belongings.'

Pools of dried blood on the rooftop where a man was fatally shot, and a pile of lambs with their necks slit: Devastating dispatch from Louisa Loveluck, sufian taha + Lorenzo Tugnoli on Israeli settlers' rampage in West Bank after Binyamin Achimair was found dead washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Seçimlerden sonra CHP’nin oy artışı, AKP ve MHP’nin gerileyişi üzerine “Hani milliyetçilik yükseliyordu”, denmişti. Biz de sormuştuk, “CHP milliyetçi değil mi?”, diye. Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi’ni kazanan CHP, Ümit Özdağ’ın vaadini hayata geçirmiş. Peki hangi dil “yabancı”? Bu

I’m running @marathonizmir next Sunday in aid of MSF International - who are doing life-saving work in #Gaza & other conflict/disaster zones. I know things are tight for many people financially at the moment so donations might be tough - I’d be so grateful for even sharing of the link.

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Jewish friend asked me a very funny legal question: “Can you break your Ramadan fast during the eclipse since technically it gets dark?” I had to hand it to him, I didn’t think of that 😂😎🌞🌆

'First we were horny' 🤦‍♀️ Google translate for Turkish apparently still has a long ways to go ...

Turkish Airlines now says it will suspend flights to Israel until March 2025. Tel Aviv was a huge market for the airlines, and it is hard to imagine the market will ever return to what it was with UAE flights now capturing the market to Asia among others. en.globes.co.il/en/article-tur…

After massive protests, Turkey’s Supreme Election Council reversed the decision of Van’s local election council that declined to give DEM party mayoral candidate Abdullah Zeydan the electoral certificate after he handily won the election in Van. Zeydan will get the certificate.

2. A key outcome of March 31 polls is that 11 of Turkey's 81 cities will be run by female mayors. This's nearly twice the number from previous polls and a historic record. What's more, female mayors are now in charge of two of Turkey's top-ten largest cities, Antep and Eskisehir

Appalling disenfranchisement of Kurdish voters in Van -- DEM candidate #AbdullahZeydan won 55% of vote but elections board disqualifies him and hands seat to AKP candidate who got 27%