Paul Benjamin Osterlund
Istanbul-based independent journalist.
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Defence & aerospace industry, international security, R&D and technology management. http://www.siyahgribeyaz.com
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@cncndn.bsky.social
Belgesel Sinemacı/Boğaziçi Akademisyeni/BÜLGBTİ+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Akademik Danışmanı•Documentary filmmaker/Academic at Boğaziçi U./Faculty advisor of BULGBTİ+ 🚵♂️ Mila'nın insanı/Mila's human 🐕🦺 - Born @ppm 324.62
@pinarbihter.bsky.social
yazar - bazen yazmaz writer http://pinarogunc.com http://instagram.com/pinarbihter
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@razakkoc.bsky.social
EU tech, trade & competition correspondent for AFP news agency via London, Ankara and Paris. Have I mentioned Turkey yet?
@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
@aylajean.bsky.social
@farukbildirici.bsky.social
Medya Ombudsmanı (ANKA, BirGün, Gazete Pencere, 9.Köy, 12Punto, T24, 24 Saat, Muhalif, Elips Haber)
@gonultol.bsky.social
Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
@ilkerayturk.bsky.social
@cagilkasapoglu.bsky.social
Journalist at BBC World Service (and sometimes makes documentaries) Eyes on 🌍and⛵️(Fastnet-bound sailor) 📩[email protected] 📩 [email protected] On X: @CagilKasapoglu IG: @cagil_kasapoglu
@kayagenc.bsky.social
Kaya Genç, a European Press Prize Laureate, is the author of The Lion and the Nightingale, Under the Shadow, An Istanbul Anthology, and Macera. Web: www.kayagenc.net Substack: kayagenc.substack.com
@jwebsterayuso.bsky.social
Paris-based freelance journalist. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Atmos, Monocle, etc. Subscribe to my newsletter about language: beyondwords.substack.com
@aslikirbas.bsky.social
interior architect, jr.architectural historian / PhD Candidate / lecturer
@ilginkarl.bsky.social
Sharing news about Turkey and Nordic region. Previously in Istanbul. Cinema and book glutton. Bylines: https://muckrack.com/ilgin-karlidag-1
@tommasoaga.bsky.social
Sabancı University, MSCA Fellow. Previously EUI and Yale. Historian of the Mediterranean, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice. From Brescia.
@lcmporter.bsky.social
Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
@humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
@Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
@orhan-sener.bsky.social
📚TechEcoPol, Journ., SocSci... | studied @gsuilt | @cityunilondon almn. | Reading notes, media, ecopol... | 🍯🦡 | @herkesinpoppisi | Cumhuriyetçi 🇹🇷
@aliyaycioglu.bsky.social
Professor of History - Stanford University. Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mideast & Turkey. Columnist Gazete Oksijen. Draws imaginary cities and landscapes 👉🏽 instagram.com/aliyaycioglu https://history.stanford.edu/people/ali-yaycioglu
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
Writer from Texas Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com Books: You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018) Fiction: Epiphany, Porter House Review, Cleaver, etc.
@jackhewson.com
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent | Freelance Producer-Director 🎥 | DuPont-Columbia winner 2023 | BAFTA-nominated 2025 | jackhewson.com/showreel | Based in Istanbul
@labailey.bsky.social
Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. [email protected]
@kitabet.bsky.social
earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar at large. you know istanbul is always the first stop.
@selvinkorkmaz.bsky.social
Siyaset Bilimci | Political Analyst & Commentator | Co-founder and Co-director of IstanPol Institute | Mercator-IPC Fellow at Sabancı Uni. | Policy Advisor | Previously at Yale, GMF, Middle East Institute, Stockholm Uni. https://serenselvinkorkmaz.com
@yusufiris.bsky.social
Freelance Journalist & Photojournalist • New Media and Journalism'19 • Media and Cultural Studies MA'23 https://linktr.ee/yusufiris
@marcdavidbaer1.bsky.social
Professor and Head of Department of International History, London School of Economics, author of The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
@chrisknapp.bsky.social
writer/journalist in paris. work in the paris review, granta, nplusone, among others. debut novel STATES OF EMERGENCY from unnamed press, sept 2024 chrisknapp.net https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/states-of-emergency
@benmauk.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Cleveland/Berlin. http://www.ben-mauk.com http://benmauk.substack.com
@jennruth.bsky.social
Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast.
@cennetsepetci.bsky.social
@refikg.bsky.social
Nephrologist & Deputy CCIO at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust @gstt-nhs.bsky.social Medical ethics, transplantation, education, digital health, social justice, and really into architecture too 🏳️🌈 He/him
@cplaisant.bsky.social
International Relations | Diplomacy | Turkey-Syria | Et un peu d'@OL. Personal views here
@rachelbiggs.bsky.social
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@samueljhirst.bsky.social
Historian, author of *Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939.* Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. https://www.samueljhirst.com
@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)
@hediyelevent.bsky.social
Daima muhabir! Freelance journalist @evrenselgzt.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@hediyelevent Turkish foreign policy/Syria/Iraq/Lebanon/Palestine-Israel
@oencueonur.bsky.social
Gazeteci / Journalist ‘alan’ YouTube kanalı Editör - Moderatör Diken - Her hafta Pazar günleri söyleşi
@evrenwiltse.bsky.social
Author of two academic books, political science professor, degrees from Boğaziçi & UMass Amherst, world traveler, and most recently a breast cancer patient. Treatments keep me alive, no worries 😉