This week has been overwhelmingly busy. A few days ago, we met in Istanbul for the Istanbul session for our GRADE COST project. My colleague Ivo Furman did a fantastic job of organizing the event in a lovely place in Istanbul (check out the place, Postane). I also participated in organizing a Wikipedia session … Read more
Recent issues on American campuses related to pro-Palestinian causes include (The list was created with the help of Perplexity): Suppression of pro-Palestinian voices: There has been a surge in reports of pro-Palestinian activists being fired or facing threats for expressing their views, which has been described as the “Palestine exception to free speech”[2]. Legal … Read more
Prof. Fraser‘s case was really disappointing… Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine. https://t.co/B6tzjZ2I08 — Jacobin (@jacobin) April 10, 2024 Germany has been under pressure to … Read more
If I were the decision maker, I would not cancel the panel; in the other case, I wouldn’t accuse the professor of islamophobia. Virtue signaling is running amok and losing the virtuousness it once had. Since the interview with Umut Özkırımlı a few years ago, our local virtue signallers are at work, accusing me whenever … Read more
It has been released now. Ümit Özkırımlı‘s long-awaited book is out. He has been a target of cancel culture practices which had a hard toll on him. I am glad that he could prepare this book. The “woke culture” is killing the left identity politics, which is a tribute to what led to these days. … Read more
Z-Library, the world’s biggest pirate e-book site, is back in an unblockable version AlternativeTo News Chased, prosecuted, and sanctioned, Z-Library has not yet said its last word. Over the past year, the pirate library has endured numerous lawsuits and attacks around the world. Not enough to kill this website, which quietly reappeared this weekend. Pirate … Read more
What Lund University Did to Umut Özkirimli BY JULIE WARK In its treatment of Umut, Lund University, acted as a law unto itself. 1) It denied him a fair workplace investigation and provided “information liable to expose [him] to the contempt of others” (Swedish Criminal Code, Ch. 5) by issuing the report of its “investigation”, … Read more
It is open access. You can have a look here. “As Reliable as a Kalashnikov Rifle”: How Sputnik News Promotes Russian Vaccine Technologies in the Turkish Twittersphere Ivo Ozan Furman, Kurt Bilgin Gürel, and Fırat Berk Sivaslıoğlu Abstract Established in 2014, SputnikTR (a localized version of Sputnik News) is the most popular pro-Russian media outlet active in Turkey. The … Read more
I am sharing an email with you. Full of good stuff (I also collect academic resources in this mini website): We would like to draw your attention to four open access publications and translations deriving from the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/assa/>. ASSA is a collaborative research project based at UCL Anthropology which … Read more
English subtitles added. As the IVME Movement, we are proud to share our documentary “Academic Freedom and Brain Drain in Turkey” with the public. In our documentary, which is a product of more than a year of collective work and intense volunteer effort, we documented the recent developments within the Turkish academia, and intense political … Read more
It was nice to see him after a long time of Twitter friendship. His Google Scholar profile here. An enlightening session today about intl media coverage of Sweden’s infamous “light touch” COVID-19 strategy. The stereotypes, ignorance and ethnic correlation standards. @ChrChristensen @sakaerka #pub204 pic.twitter.com/AbBLOXocvN — Manahil Atcha ✨ (@manahilatcha) April 14, 2022
2021 Boğaziçi University protests
As a pan-European organization, ECREA (European Communication and Education Association) Research is appalled by the aggression of one European nation against another. ECREA strongly condemns this senseless act of violence and stands firmly behind our Ukrainian colleagues, and we encourage all members to use available platforms to influence political leaders in all European countries … Read more
Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, founded and incorporated as the Turkish Studies Association in 1971, is a private, non-profit, non-political I would like to share my earlier tweet and further thoughts concerning the debate about removing Fuat Köprülü's name from the OTSA (Ottoman Turkish Studies Association) prizes along with the names of … Read more
No need to know Turkish. The appointed and very unwelcome Rector cannot find professors who would work with him so he appoints the same persons to several schools as the Dean. The majority of Boğaziçi University professors continue to protest: protests mark one year since Erdoğan’s rector appointment