Turkey detains five mayors in latest crackdown on opposition on.ft.com/4kngVJU

#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 and supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/turk…

New episode 📚📚 Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two. The conversation discusses her book “Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents” (@IBTauris) 🎧👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/06/10/tal…

It is now in the Statute Book. Turkey allows only one official (not authorized) translation of the Qur'an, and the state has the authority to destroy all competing translations and commentaries. Has this ever happened in pre-modern Islamic history? resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2025/0…

New episode 🎧🎧 Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain The conversation is based on his recent lecture at Istanbul Policy Center (Istanbul Policy Center) on neo-Ottomanism in Turkey and the view of empire in Brexit Britain. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/06/24/eri…

Istanbul police detained Timur Soykan, one of Turkey’s most respected, reputable journalists. His detention comes after dozens of arrests, investigations targeting the opposition. Soykan is known of his in-depth reporting about corruption claims re President Erdoğan’s government.

I wrote this piece for Foreign Affairs soon after Erdoğan jailed his top rival, Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu. I argued that this blatant act of political repression marked a major shift toward Russian-style autocracy in Turkey. Since then, the crackdown and imprisonment of

New episode 📢📢 Bilge Yabancı (Bilge Yabanci—Peace and Justice for Palestine 🇵🇸) on “Civil Society and Authoritarianism: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press) 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/07/08/bil…

Grateful to have been hosted again by Turkey Book Talk for a thoughtful conversation about my book ‘Civil Society and Autocratisation’. We delved into how civil society transforms in several ways under protracted and intense autocratization.

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK a symbolic first step in laying down its arms at a ceremony. The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 My thoughts on the recent disarmament announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the broader implications of President Erdoğan’s latest overtures. I wrote this piece, titled “Turkey’s Dangerous Illusion of Peace with the PKK,” a while back, and have updated it in

Turkey's minister of foreign affairs: "Any attempt to divide Syria would constitute a national security threat for Turkey and Ankara would intervene directly in such a scenario." karar.com/guncel-haberle…

New episode 🚨🚨 Mustafa Kutlay (Mustafa Kutlay) on the successes and failures of Turkey's foreign policy transactionalism 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/07/22/mus…

Very pleased to chat with Turkey Book Talk about middle powers in an uncertain world, viewed through the lens of Turkish foreign policy. Based on my recent Foreign Affairs piece. Podcast link: turkeybooktalk.com/2025/07/22/mus…

New episode 🚨🚨 Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey His book examines the psychiatric response to the deadly 1999 Marmara earthquake, as well as its legacy among survivors and mental health professionals who responded to it. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/08/05/chr…

At the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in March, 23-year-old Enes Hocaoğulları criticized the legal pressure against Turkey's opposition CHP and the crackdown on protesters. Yesterday, upon his return to 🇹🇷, he was detained for "spreading false information" & "inciting public hatred and hostility".

Latest Turkey Book Talk episode on the social/psychological impact of deadly earthquakes and their aftermath 👇👇

Urban planning under arrest in Istanbul - my latest for Bloomberg Bloomberg CityLab looks at the impacts on this city of 16 million of having its mayor and much of its top municipal leadership behind bars. bloomberg.com/news/features/…