William Armstrong
Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
https://turkeybooktalk.com
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@sabcharlie.bsky.social
YPG veteran living in AANES. Interested in animal rights, antifascism, land rights, and intersectionality. I also have extremely fluffy cheeks.
@zubeydesari.bsky.social
Journalist-Gazeteci İnstagram: https://instagram.com/zubeydesari3?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=
@killian-cogan.bsky.social
Turkey correspondent for the French & Swiss press @ Libération, Les Echos, La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune de Genève, Revue XXI, Bilan magazine. Based in Istanbul since 2019.
@andrewfinkel.bsky.social
Journalist, co-founder of P24, author of The Adventure of the Second Wife
@umitak.bsky.social
Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
@erolonderoglu.bsky.social
Gazeteci - Journalist, RT's aren't endorsements. Views are my own.
@fionamullency.social
Fiona Mullen, #Cyprus geek: economy, fiscal, energy, #natgas, banks, #cyprob, northern Cyprus, Director Sapienta Economics https://sapientaeconomics.com/about-us/
@selingirit.bsky.social
Senior Journalist @BBC | Covering Turkey, ME and beyond @BBCWorldService | Previously BBC Turkey Bilingual Correspondent | Instagram: selingirit
@cemoyvat.bsky.social
Economics, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre
@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.
@szerlasz.bsky.social
Researcher at SUITS in Stockholm ▪️ Former Mercator-IPC Fellow ▪️ PhD from University of Graz ▪️ Interested in Turkey's foreign policy
@tomdewaal.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry.
@taylanbilgic.bsky.social
Bloomberg News editor in Turkey. Opinions are my own, reposts do not mean endorsement. Veteran of Human Wars!
@tuvangumrukcu.bsky.social
Reuters Correspondent based in Ankara, Turkey. All views my own, RTs and likes are not endorsements.
@samueljsdv.bsky.social
Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
@ziaweise.bsky.social
Senior EU climate reporter at POLITICO. Recovering news editor, former Istanbul correspondent. Brussels-based. She/her. ✉️ zweise@politico.eu
@muratsomer-eng.bsky.social
Prof., Political Science, Ozyegin Univ. Istanbul & CEU Budapest: https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/muratsomer/ . Polarization/depolarization, democratic erosion & oppositions, ethnic, religious & secular politics. Türkçe postlar için: @muratsomer.bsky.social
@mitrala.bsky.social
Journalist, Turkey correspondent (Dutch Public Broadcaster NOS), Feminist
@patsykes.bsky.social
Energy and Middle East news at Bloomberg in Istanbul. Views mine. RT ≠ endorsement. psykes5@bloomberg.net
@hamidrezaaz.bsky.social
Ph.D. | Visiting Fellow @swp-berlin.org http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
@seckinsertdemir.bsky.social
Author of Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State, Cambridge University Press (January 2025) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civic-death-in-contemporary-turkey/898D9A2EFDC70B683667087DD11B8AEE#fndtn-metrics
@begumzorlu.bsky.social
Interested in contentious politics, gender and the dynamics of solidarity. Based at the Department of International Politics at City, St. George's University of London.
@fayn.press
🤝 İyi gazeteciliği abonelikle destekle: https://fayn.press/abonelik 🌎 We're an Istanbul-based independent digital news & storytelling studio.
@wolfpiccoli.bsky.social
Director of Research at Teneo's geopolitical advisory service Politics & economics in the EU/EZ & Turkey Usual disclaimers apply
@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.
@jannes-t.bsky.social
Head of Istanbul Office, Stiftung Mercator | Alumnus of Istanbul Policy Center, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, University of Cologne, Sabancı University
@andywilks61.bsky.social
Turkey-based hack. Posting on anything that catches my eye or gets my goat. Views arbitrary
@psaturkish.bsky.social
Turkish Politics Specialist Group of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social. Co-convened by Begüm Zorlu and Buğra Güngör 🔗psaturkishpolitics.co.uk
@emilywither.bsky.social
Journalist & broadcaster based in Istanbul. News & documentaries. https://linktr.ee/EmilyWither
@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).
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
@zozanp.bsky.social
Environmental Historian, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Prof @ U of Minnesota, Twin Cities/ Au: The Political Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the last Ottoman Century/ Studying on Climate, Grasslands, Empires, and Violence.
@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social
PhD in Politics | Ikerbasque Science Foundation | Former Marie Curie Fellow | Former Open Society Fellow | Website: www.bilgeyabanci.com
@altaicstorytelling.bsky.social
Chinese-to-English literary translator, specializing in writing by & about Altaic peoples. Learning Turkish. Translated "Confessions of a Jade Lord," "Last Quarter of the Moon."Now co-translating novel set in Xinjiang, 《凿空》.
@lausanneproject.bsky.social
Scholars with a shared interest in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its legacies for peace-making in 2023 and beyond, from Turkey and Greece to the wider world.
@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.