Faik Kurtulmus
@faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
Political philosopher at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Working on distributive epistemic justice, political philosophy of science & freedom of expression.
https://philpeople.org/profiles/faik-kurtulmus
https://philpeople.org/profiles/faik-kurtulmus
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I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.
jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...
jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...
For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social
Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.
jacobin.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.
jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...
jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...
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8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn
muse.jhu.edu
July 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
newlinesmag.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.
History and motivations
How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...
eenps.weebly.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.
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Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:
"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "
Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "
Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism
What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...
politicalphilosophyjournal.org
May 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:
"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "
Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "
Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
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Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...
Blitzscaling for tyrants
The lightning-fast path to tearing down due process
www.programmablemutter.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...
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The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
May 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Bluesky sansüründe son durum:
• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...
• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...
April 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Bluesky sansüründe son durum:
• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...
• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...
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Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar.
With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
March 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar.
With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social
We also discuss what may come next:
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
We also discuss what may come next:
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
March 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social
We also discuss what may come next:
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
We also discuss what may come next:
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
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An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end.
Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.
Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.
Resisting with style!
Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.
Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.
Resisting with style!
March 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end.
Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.
Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.
Resisting with style!
Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.
Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.
Resisting with style!
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I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney
Justice as an ideal for climate assessment
Confronting a series of planetary crises, the international community has established a complex regime of global environmental assessments. The most prominent of these remains the Intergovernmental Pa...
www.repository.cam.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney
Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)
YouTube video by SPianista
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...
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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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In these difficult times, we find solace in the achievements of our partners in Malatya, Turkey, who performed their fifth 6-way liver exchange today 👏 Having performed 29 LE transplants in 2025 through the Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, they are on track to surpass their record of 122 in 2024 🥇
February 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In these difficult times, we find solace in the achievements of our partners in Malatya, Turkey, who performed their fifth 6-way liver exchange today 👏 Having performed 29 LE transplants in 2025 through the Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, they are on track to surpass their record of 122 in 2024 🥇
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The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay:
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp
- @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp
- @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
February 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay:
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp
- @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp
- @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
What if the farce and the tragedy can be simultaneous?
blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow
January 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What if the farce and the tragedy can be simultaneous?