William Armstrong
Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
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@omarkadkoy.bsky.social
Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
@jonathanspicer.bsky.social
Journalist and Reuters bureau chief in Turkey. Native of Canada. Views my own
@aylushka.bsky.social
Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
@thomasmcmullan.bsky.social
Groundwater out with Bloomsbury in July 2025. Previously, The Last Good Man, winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. Art words in Frieze, ArtReview, others. www.thomasmcmullan.com
@akmckeever.bsky.social
Amman-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria) Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria: https://akmckeever.substack.com
@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
@ingrigoriadis.bsky.social
@mustafakutlay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, City University of London; senior scholar, Istanbul Policy Center | political economy, Turkish politics and foreign policy, institutions and development in the global South, political risk analysis https://t.co/F1cp2LYhiR
@aronlund.bsky.social
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
@lizcookman.bsky.social
🖋️Correspondent: Ukraine, Turkey, Middle East 📍 Kyiv and Istanbul 🏆Best Print & Best Specialist Journalist, Freelance Journalism Awards 2024 🏆Amnesty Gaby Rado award 2023
@kenancruzcilli.bsky.social
London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey
@samharshbarger.bsky.social
Oxford History MPhil student. Interested in the history/politics of diaspora and energy, especially 🇦🇿 + the Soviet oil industry + decolonization.
@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
@ozgunozcer.bsky.social
Journalist | Basın emekçisi | Rojnamevan. Editor. Bylines here and there. Avid reader, slothful writer. Çilli irade. Freckles ahead.
@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
@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
@ilkerayturk.bsky.social
@canokar.bsky.social
Who knows what I’ll write about here but maybe less Turkish politics? Or maybe more…
@ilginkarl.bsky.social
Sharing news about Turkey and Nordic region. Previously in Istanbul. Cinema and book glutton. Bylines: https://muckrack.com/ilgin-karlidag-1
@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
@dovsfriedman.bsky.social
AML-CFT pro. Former Treasury. Amateur taco tour coordinator. Bear with me while I unlearn the Hatch Act.
@gabiamitchell.bsky.social
Eastern Mediterranean Energy & Geopolitics | Maker of Soup | PhD Candidate | Husband, Father, Jerusalemite, Veteran (not exclusively in that order) | Substack: https://gabimitchell.substack.com/
@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 🇹🇷
@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.
@hediyelevent.bsky.social
Daima muhabir! Freelance journalist @evrenselgzt.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@hediyelevent Turkish foreign policy/Syria/Iraq/Lebanon/Palestine-Israel
@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
@marcdavidbaer1.bsky.social
Professor and Head of Department of International History, London School of Economics, author of The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
@euroopanrajalla.bsky.social
#Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
@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)
@alexjaymac.bsky.social
Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
@thebiaankara.bsky.social
Internationally renowned for conducting world-class research and collaborations in #Türkiye and #BlackSea region in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
@farukbildirici.bsky.social
Medya Ombudsmanı (ANKA, BirGün, Gazete Pencere, 9.Köy, 12Punto, T24, 24 Saat, Muhalif, Elips Haber)
@sinanulgen.bsky.social
Former Turkish Diplomat, Director of Istanbul based EDAM think tank, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe
@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
@ikrassi.bsky.social
Journalist, Bulgarian in London, member of the girl duo behind BBC geopolitical pod #TheGlobalJigsaw, arty-crafty hobbyist, 🐈 Zhivko’s favourite human Work: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvrk/episodes/downloads
@yusufcan.bsky.social
Coordinator & Analyst @ Wilson Center. All things MENA & Turkey. Alum @ Georgetown Uni. Views my own. [email protected]
@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social
Conversations with authors on Turkey and its region. Episodes every two weeks with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social + guests Latest episodes: https://turkeybooktalk.com Subtack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/user?u=2998854
@digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social
Politics @Uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Global Strategy Reference Group @anticorruption.bsky.social I work on politics of corruption and anti-corruption, authoritarian regime survival and illiberal bureaucracies