Aykut Öztürk
aykutozturk.bsky.social
Aykut Öztürk
@aykutozturk.bsky.social
Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.

https://aozturk.net
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📢 Happening tomorrow!
Join our online workshop(13:00 UK time) for
“Autocratization in an Age of Digitalization”
🗣️ Huseyin Emre Ceyhun (Princeton University)
💬 Discussants: Dr. Melis Laebens (CEU) & Dr. Rachael McLellan (Glasgow)
🔗 Register: city-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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📅 Oct 28, 3:00 PM (UK)
Making the Invisible Visible
@philipmai.com (@socialmedialab.ca) introduces PoliDashboard, a real-time tracker for political ads on Meta platforms.

🔍 Transparency in targeted political ads during elections.
October 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social!

We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
October 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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We invite submissions for the Autumn 2025 Turkish Politics Online Workshops co-convened by @aykutozturk.bsky.social @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social

The series provides an opportunity for feedback on working papers with the aim of supporting junior scholars

See 👇
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/09/01/c...
Call for Submissions: Autumn 2025 Turkish Politics Online Workshops by PSA’s Turkish Politics Specialist Group
The Turkish Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association invites submissions for the Autumn 2025 Turkish Politics Online Workshops, co-convened by Dr Aykut Ozturk (University of G…
psaturkishpolitics.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Reports tonight that, following unprecedented intl pressure, Israel is going to facilitate a dramatic increase in aid, water supply, and aid-drop food by Israeli airforce (that has not happened before).

For many in Gaza on the brink of death, this may prove too little too late.
July 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits

Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ
July 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Account to follow:

There aren't many really active voices writing about #Turkey on this site.

@cplaisant.bsky.social has been wonderfully engaged, sharing articles in multiple languages, and providing Eng translations of important Turkish texts, along with his own analysis.

Well worth a follow
July 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Aralarında gazetecilerin ve iktidara muhalif gençlerin de yer aldığı adli kontrol ile takip edilen kişi sayısı, 1 Temmuz itibarıyla 119 bin 413’e ulaştı.
120 bin kişi adli kontrol altında
Adli kontrol hükümleri, muhalefeti susturma aracına dönüştürüldü. Aralarında gazetecilerin ve iktidara muhalif gençlerin de yer aldığı adli kontrol ile takip edilen kişi sayısı, 1 Temmuz itibarıyla 11...
www.birgun.net
July 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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This would mean a figure roughly equivalent to the military and civilian casualties in WWI.
July 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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DPIR’s 25th anniversary: Read our 25 in 25 Collection - celebrating staff, students, alumni, and the impact of our world-leading research.

Meet @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social‬ - Associate Professor in Comparative Politics: www.politics.ox.ac.u...
June 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
June 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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From April 2025 -

Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - cup.org/4iooX3d

- Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social
& Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez

#OpenAccess
June 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Discuss.
June 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I am excited to welcome two brilliant, fully-funded PhD researchers to @uofglasgow.bsky.social this autumn to work on different aspects of migration politics @uofglasgow.bsky.social.

Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵
June 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.

At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.

The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK
Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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US weapons still at work in Gaza.

The refusal of this administration (like the previous one) to enforce the LOAC-based legal restrictions on US arms transfers to Israel is also a rule of law issue.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
On Tuesday: Join us for a webinar session on Communalytic.org, a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media!

The registration link: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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How do local politics shape where refugees want to live in the host states?

In our new study (w/ Sefa Seçen & Aykut Öztürk), we examine the internal destination preferences of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Germany.

The results are important.👇
May 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🚨 Democracy under threat? 🚨

Join Transparency International UK's @danieljbruce.bsky.social and @muteswann.bsky.social on June 4 in Edinburgh as @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social brings together experts to tackle corruption and strengthen governance in Scotland.

www.transparency.org.uk/events/corru...
Corruption and Anti-corruption: Lessons for Scotland
In-partnership with the University of Aberdeen and Open Government Partnership
www.transparency.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Thrilled to announce my new article, "Symbolic Leverage: Nominating (Non)Veiled Women as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey," is now published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social and available as First View (Open Access)! 🇹🇷♀️🗳️ (Thread 👇)
#SymbolicLeverage #TurkishPolitics
May 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social

Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios.

osf.io/preprints/os...
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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🌐💻@aykutozturk.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce our next three webinars in our series "Social media as a research tool", starting on Tue, 20 May. Find out more and register here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM