Marc Edward Hoffman
Writer, wit, and bon vivant; scholar manqué; or laconic recluse. Depends on my mood and whom you ask.
Based in Istanbul. Before that Russia, Philly, Hawaii, and more.
History, political economy, food
Buff 'n Blue, Boola Boola
@250yearsagonews.bsky.social
The events of exactly 250 years ago today (1775). A project in conjunction with America’s semiquincentennial. By Jon Blackwell, an editor at the Wall Street Journal. Also follow me @100yearsagonews.bsky.social
@cortegaist.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate at Istanbul University | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
@baykurt.bsky.social
media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://glotechlab.net/
@efetokdemir.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Bilkent IR, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar at UChicago. PhD @bingpolisci.bsky.social Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye www.efetokdemir.com
@ottomanhistorycafe.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com/
@bbbayh.bsky.social
Researching authoritarian politics| Freelance writer| Focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries | Previously PhD at Coventry| Views my own.
@goreme1990.bsky.social
Sociologist, author and travel writer living in Istanbul. Bylines: NYT Travel, BBC Travel, Fodors, The Revealer, CNN Travel. Books: Longing for IstanbuI, Inside Out In Istanbul, Istanbul Dreams, Exploring Turkish Landscapes, Istanbul 50 Unsung Places.
@taalluq.bsky.social
sir/ma'am they/them, mütemâdiyen seyyâl, prone to awe, yoghurt purist.
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
Washington correspondent and founding partner @ Puck. Tomorrow will be worse. For more inspirational insights, subscribe at https://puck.news/author/julia-ioffe/
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@omarkadkoy.bsky.social
Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
@chrchristensen.bsky.social
American in Sweden. Prof. of Journalism at Stockholm University. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin. Write about media, politics, culture, technology…sometimes in newspapers. Lived in US, UK, Turkey and now Sweden.
@opinionhaver.bsky.social
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center. Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
@publicbooks.bsky.social
Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
@erdalyalcin.bsky.social
Professor of International Economics TradePolicy, EU, MNEs, WTO, Sanctions, FTA https://sites.google.com/view/erdalyalcin/home
@shadihamid.bsky.social
Columnist at the Washington Post. Research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Co-host of Wisdom of Crowds. My most recent book is 'The Problem of Democracy': https://amzn.to/4dg3mY
@ottomanhistory.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com
@cequirk.bsky.social
Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR quirkglobalstrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinequirk/
@rickpetree.bsky.social
Battered but unbowed. "The truth will stand when the world won’t.” American democracy/politics; IR (E-W, Turkey/ MENA, CEE/FSU); Energy Transition; global economics. @UniofOxford @HarvGSAS @HarvLawSchool (Ed., @HarvLRev)
@aphclarkson.bsky.social
Lecturer for German and European Studies at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @APHClarkson@mastodon.social as well as @APHClarkson https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
@jamesinturkey.com
Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
@michaeldaventry.com
Radio journalist @ BBC News/BBC Sounds. Formerly: Sky News, Euronews, Jewish News, TRT | 🇹🇷🇬🇧 | DMs open, all views mine, Türkçemiz de var az çok.
@dimitarbechev.bsky.social
Director of the Dahrendorf Programme St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe Author: Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe and Turkey under Erdoğan (Yale)
@alexthat.bsky.social
American working on the Caucasus and Turkey, focusing on Armenian and Circassian issues. Yaratılışta bilgim olmadan var olan ne varsa rızam olmaksızın var.
@istanbultelaviv.bsky.social
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Author of Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a new book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Also writes for Haaretz and more.
@nickashdown.bsky.social
New Dad. Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc. Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
@canokar.bsky.social
Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
@juliadahl.bsky.social
Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley. www.juliadahl.com
@jmalsin.bsky.social
WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre. https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
@faisalalyafai.bsky.social
@elmirab.bsky.social
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Interruptrr, a weekly newsletter. https://interruptrr.substack.com
@goncatokyol.bsky.social
Freelance journalist based in İstanbul, editor-at-barge @turkeyrecap | overlok makinesi g.tokyol@gmail.com
@eaunina.bsky.social
About Turkey, random musing and my readings. Latvian previously in Turkey, now trotting around Brussels. Working on EU enlargement. ASU, LSE, St Andrews alumna. Views strictly mine!
@claireberlinski.bsky.social
Elite creds. Interesting jobs. Writes books. Good-looking. If you like my feed, you'll love the Cosmopolitan Globalist: http://claireberlinski.substack.com
@ruthmichaelson.com
Journalist covering Turkey & the Middle East. Bylines @guardian, sometimes others. ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk ruth@ruthmichaelson.com www.ruthmichaelson.com
@tulikabose.bsky.social
All-formats journalist, cringey Millennial, host Currently: @newlinesmag Prior: Scientific American / NowThis / Mashable
@thetls.bsky.social
The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
@catharinemorris.bsky.social
Associate Editor and commissioning editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social) - Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
@farooqumar.bsky.social
Investigative journalist at Bloomberg. Recovering Foreign Correspondent. Formerly with ProPublica, Reuters, Al Jazeera English, LA Times. umar-farooq.com