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'Everything goes back to the Ottoman Empire, doesn't it? Sometimes I wonder: is it even dead?'
In her remarkable new book, Lea Ypi follows the concept of (in)dignity across empire’s collapse, nation-building, and the ties of family.
Sep 18
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Ezgi Basaran
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What Israel’s Doha Attack Means for Turkey + Hezbollah and the SDF/PKK disarmament tracks
Two issues this week: the AKP’s inner circle is palpably concerned about a direct clash with Israel, while Hezbollah and the SDF/PKK face stalled…
Sep 12
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Ezgi Basaran
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Fragments & Findings: ‘Enjoy Saudi,’ Egypt’s Leverage, Yemen’s Aid Battles
This week, I bring you a few stories from the region told in fragments. Saudi Arabia hosts comedians, Egypt maneuvers at Rafah, and the Houthis turn aid…
Sep 4
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Ezgi Basaran
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August 2025
Which Syrian Army Should the Kurds Join?
While US’s Syria envoy rose to the apogee of Orientalism by lecturing Lebanese journos to “be civilised,” the real deadlock sits among…
Aug 27
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Ezgi Basaran
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Reflections of Russia on Turkey’s Road to Unfreedom
Russia pioneered the politics of eternity, where succession was erased and imagination suffocated. Turkey has followed the same path, step by step, into…
Aug 21
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Ezgi Basaran
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Gaza Genocide, the system and the Neoliberal Bastards
For some of us, this is the essential question: How does a genocide continue? What sustains the world’s complacency and enables its complicity? Let's…
Aug 13
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Ezgi Basaran
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A what? Lebanonization of Turkey?
Calls to beware 'Lebanonization' echo through Turkish political discourse today, conjuring old ghosts of division and collapse. But these anxieties rest…
Aug 6
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Ezgi Basaran
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Suriye'de Colani'den Şara yaratMAyan ve Kürt sürecinde de bulunMAyan İngiliz kurum
Türkiye basınında da yayılınca yazmam icap etti. Jonathan Powell'ın kurduğu İngiliz bir kurumun hem Suriye başkanını 'belirlediği' hem de Kürt sürecinde…
Aug 4
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Ezgi Basaran
July 2025
The British NGO That DIDN'T Make al-Jolani into al-Sharra
Some claim a British NGO pulled Syria’s new president from the ranks of jihad. But mistaking late encounters for origin stories obscures local agency…
Jul 30
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Ezgi Basaran
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Cutting off Palestinian futures and Big Tech’s role in genocide
From reproductive violence to algorithmic apartheid, Israel’s war on Gaza is designed to erase futures. We should by now, see the architecture of…
Jul 23
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Ezgi Basaran
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Is Europe Still the 'Hapless Fool' on Gaza? Sadly, yes.
Europe chooses to “watch closely” as Israel lays waste to Gaza. Meanwhile the only European voice exposing the system behind the genocide is sanctioned…
Jul 17
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Ezgi Basaran
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A Cauldron of fire in Sulaymaniyah: Is This the End of the Kurdish Conflict?
This is an additional dispatch for this week as today marks a historic moment for Turkey, for the Kurdish movement, and for the broader Middle East.
Jul 11
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Ezgi Basaran
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