It seems obvious to me they sincerely thought he had a shot at the national stage. And they’ve seen from Trump that Americans will occasionally elect corrupt buffoons from New York City. This wasn’t just about fire codes and the Armenian Genocide.
*Sunday, apologies. It’s been a long week already.
Thanks Howard, the nice words are much appreciated as always.
And before I took the helm @merip.bsky.socialmerip.org/2022/05/mult...
The Club (Kulüp), produced by Netflix, is set in the mid-1950s among the cast, crew and management of a trendy nightclub in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul. In addition to the use of Ladino, the lang...
Earlier this year in Newlines, on the Kurdish question and local elections (but really the fundamental nature of the political dynamic there). newlinesmag.com/argument/a-l...
How did Ankara’s relationship with the Kurds deteriorate so dramatically over the past decade and where is it headed?
In Newlines, on liberalism in Turkey and Christine Philliou’s book on Refik Halid Karay. newlinesmag.com/review/for-m...
The key to understanding liberalism’s consistent presence at the core of otherwise illiberal governance in Turkey lies in the history of another word, muhalefet. It’s the word at the center of Christi...
Aside from the academic stuff, I have published a lot of public facing work on Turkey. Here’s a few pieces I think hold up well and might have some kind of staying power. In Public Books on the history of progressivism in Turkey. www.publicbooks.org/turkeys-prog...
In her posthumously published memoir, written in the late 1960s, the journalist Sabiha Sertel reflected on her life in exile from Turkey, her home country. She had lived through a period of ...
This piece in JOTSA also came out of the diss (but won’t really be part of the book if/when that gets finished). It looks into how a kind of exile in America inflected the memoirs of the daughter of Turkish leftists with nostalgia. hcommons.org/deposits/obj...
If you don’t have proquest, I published an open-access article here that gets into the main argument, focusing on political trials in the post WWII period. www.journal-prisms.de/index.php/ho...
Maybe one day I will have a job that will give me space to turn this dissertation on dissent in interwar Turkey into a book. www.proquest.com/openview/217...