Vanessa Larson
Journalist in D.C. after Istanbul. Bylines/copy editor at The Washington Post. Write on M.E. arts+culture. Formerly at Foreign Policy; Fodor's Travel Turkey guidebook writer. Türkçe.
@julideetem.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Director of Film Studies Concentration at the University of Virginia
@nicolepope.bsky.social
Nonfiction book coach, writer, editor. Former Turkey correspondent. http://nicolepope.com
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@candanbadem.bsky.social
Osmanlı, Rusya ve SSCB tarihi doçenti, ateist, Barış Akademisyenleri Bildirisi imzasından dolayı 1 Eylül 2016'dan beri KHK672 mağduru. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İşletme 1992 mezunu. Academic at Risk https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CandanBadem
@dilanokcuoglu.bsky.social
Kurdish. UKRI/Marie-curie Postdoc. Fellow in IR Sussex University, School of Global Studies; Affiliated w the Center for Global (In)Security Research; https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p648193-dilan-okcuoglu
@basakyuce.bsky.social
scholar of humanities | PhD in comparative literature @Binghamton | ex-journalist | teaches humanities and international politics here and there
@meenakari.bsky.social
Jewelry historian. #MaterialCulture. #Decorativearts. #Museums #Mughals #Ottomans. Indophile. Bhagat. Ph.D Political theory; MA Decorative Art & Design History
@ziaweise.bsky.social
Senior EU climate reporter at POLITICO. Recovering news editor, former Istanbul correspondent. Brussels-based. She/her. ✉️ zweise@politico.eu
@soniachabane.bsky.social
Brown University Fellow x TEPSA | 🔎 humanitarian organisations in the Anthropocene, disaster management| 👀 on Turkey, the #Mashreq, #Maghreb & EU-Med relations 📍 Brussels • Istanbul • Beirut To connect further: https://linktr.ee/s_ecrirelalumiere
@kadritastan.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social Brussels | Former @CATS_Network - @SWPBerlin | Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Climate and Energy (EU, Turkey, Mediterranean, Middle East and beyond).
@cplaisant.bsky.social
International Relations | Diplomacy | Turkey-Syria | Et un peu d'@OL. Personal views here
@jamesinturkey.com
Turkish politics and elections website. Written by @michaeldaventry.com
@gershonbaskin.bsky.social
Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
@mehoffman.bsky.social
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
@marklieberman.bsky.social
K-12 school finance reporter for @edweek.bsky.social and proud member of @edweekunion.bsky.social. mlieberman@educationweek.org Signal: malieberman.25
@dilmunite.bsky.social
Working on contemporary art and archaeology, mostly in the Eastern Mediterranean, but currently based in Southeast Asia. Senior art critic at The Markaz Review
@kenancruzcilli.bsky.social
London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey
@yusufsarfati.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him. Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
@gokcesencan.bsky.social
Water and climate policy researcher by day, ponderer & gamer by night. Posts in English and (mostly) Turkish. This is a personal account and all opinions are my own.
@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
@filippocicciu.bsky.social
Italian #journalist based in #Istanbul covering #Turkey #Türkiye #Turchia for #Italy 's leading news agency ANSA and Italian Swiss public broadcaster RSI
@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
@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.
@ozanozavci1.bsky.social
Historian of security, empires, diplomacy and MENA | Co-convenor of the Lausanne Project | Author of Dangerous Gifts, Oxford 2021 | https://www.uu.nl/staff/HOOzavci https://thelausanneproject.com https://fighting-pandemics.sites.uu.nl
@dannyghajjar.bsky.social
🇱🇧 Journalist covering Arabic music Co-host of the Shik Shak Shook Ones podcast Bylines: NYTimes, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, The Grammys, Billboard Arabia, GQ Middle East https://www.dannyhajjar.com
@farooqumar.bsky.social
Investigative journalist at Bloomberg. Recovering Foreign Correspondent. Formerly with ProPublica, Reuters, Al Jazeera English, LA Times. umar-farooq.com
@kbuyukyuksel.bsky.social
Generally, political and social science stuff. Worried about democracy, authoritarianism, inequality, discrimination and civil conflicts. Other than that, whatever I want to write on. Tweets in TR/ENG. Previously at @CEU and @SabanciUniv.
@jackhewson.com
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent | Freelance Producer-Director 🎥 | DuPont-Columbia winner 2023 | BAFTA-nominated 2025 | jackhewson.com/showreel | Based in Istanbul
@cheesemanab.bsky.social
Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
@andresmourenza.bsky.social
Juntando letras desde 2005. Turquía, Chipre, Grecia, Oriente Próximo, Cáucaso. Autor de "La democracia es un tranvía" (Península) y "Sínora" (La Caja Books)
@sammywestfall.bsky.social
@newsguild.org
We're the largest union of journalists and media workers in North America. We've been holding power to account and defending democracy since 1933. ➡️ linktr.ee/newsguild
@zeynsom.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Government at UT-Austin. Research on European politics, parties, elections, and voters. Close follower of everything Turkish, European and American.
@cenksidar.bsky.social
CEO and Founder of EnquireAI | building an AI+human knowledge network | Istanbulite living in Washington DC | Entrepreneur, Thinker, trying to be a Doer as well SAIS’07
@hakantopal.info
Art, Politics, and Other Things in Life 🚴 [[ Professor of a few things, student of everything ]] http://hakantopal.info
@emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
Ph.D. Researcher & Editor | Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Ethics
@cortegaist.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate at Istanbul University | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
@whitejenny.bsky.social
Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
@seyahatgame.bsky.social
Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/ www.hajjtrail.com/game
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!