Kaya Genç
@kayagenc.bsky.social
Kaya Genç, a European Press Prize Laureate, is the author of Şehir, The Lion and the Nightingale, Under the Shadow, An Istanbul Anthology, and Macera. Web: www.kayagenc.net Substack: kayagenc.substack.com
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Kaya Genç
@kayagenc.bsky.social
· Oct 2
İlk romanım Macera'nın (2008) yayımlanmasından 17 yıl sonra, ikinci romanım yakında Sia Kitap etiketiyle kitapçılarda olacak. İki yıldır üzerinde çalıştığım yeni romanımın yayın programına dair ayrıntıları yakında paylaşacağım.
“This House Regrets the Demise of the Ottoman Empire”
🌎 November 20
Oxford Union
@ox.ac.uk
I’ll try to persuade The Oxford Union debating club that we should not be mourning the demise of the Ottoman Empire alongside fellow opposition members Hugh Pope, Attila Pók, and Constantinos Filis.
🌎 November 20
Oxford Union
@ox.ac.uk
I’ll try to persuade The Oxford Union debating club that we should not be mourning the demise of the Ottoman Empire alongside fellow opposition members Hugh Pope, Attila Pók, and Constantinos Filis.
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“This House Regrets the Demise of the Ottoman Empire”
🌎 November 20
Oxford Union
@ox.ac.uk
I’ll try to persuade The Oxford Union debating club that we should not be mourning the demise of the Ottoman Empire alongside fellow opposition members Hugh Pope, Attila Pók, and Constantinos Filis.
🌎 November 20
Oxford Union
@ox.ac.uk
I’ll try to persuade The Oxford Union debating club that we should not be mourning the demise of the Ottoman Empire alongside fellow opposition members Hugh Pope, Attila Pók, and Constantinos Filis.
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The Turkish government’s embrace of #AI comes with sinister undertones. Contributing editor @kayagenc.bsky.social explores how President #Erdoğan is using AI to amplify government narratives and discredit and silence his opponents ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Turkish government’s embrace of #AI comes with sinister undertones. Contributing editor @kayagenc.bsky.social explores how President #Erdoğan is using AI to amplify government narratives and discredit and silence his opponents ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Moderatörlüğünü Meşher’de düzenlenen "Hikâye İstanbul'da Geçiyor" sergisi küratörlerinden Ebru Esra Satıcı'nın yaptığı "İstanbul'u Yakalamak: Akışkan Bir Kentin Batı Edebiyatındaki Tasvirleri" başlıklı konuşmam yayında: youtu.be/PmcSOC7yQVw?...
İstanbul’u Yakalamak: Akışkan Bir Kentin Batı Edebiyatındaki Tasvirleri
YouTube video by Meşher
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October 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Moderatörlüğünü Meşher’de düzenlenen "Hikâye İstanbul'da Geçiyor" sergisi küratörlerinden Ebru Esra Satıcı'nın yaptığı "İstanbul'u Yakalamak: Akışkan Bir Kentin Batı Edebiyatındaki Tasvirleri" başlıklı konuşmam yayında: youtu.be/PmcSOC7yQVw?...
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What is life worth in a world as cruel as ours? This was one of the questions that Tezer Özlü’s writing dared to ask.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tezer-ozlu-journey-edge-life/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tezer-ozlu-journey-edge-life/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What is life worth in a world as cruel as ours? This was one of the questions that Tezer Özlü’s writing dared to ask.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tezer-ozlu-journey-edge-life/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tezer-ozlu-journey-edge-life/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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"Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters" by @kayagenc.bsky.social . [3/5]
Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters
Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.
www.thenation.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters" by @kayagenc.bsky.social . [3/5]
İlk romanım Macera'nın (2008) yayımlanmasından 17 yıl sonra, ikinci romanım yakında Sia Kitap etiketiyle kitapçılarda olacak. İki yıldır üzerinde çalıştığım yeni romanımın yayın programına dair ayrıntıları yakında paylaşacağım.
October 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
İlk romanım Macera'nın (2008) yayımlanmasından 17 yıl sonra, ikinci romanım yakında Sia Kitap etiketiyle kitapçılarda olacak. İki yıldır üzerinde çalıştığım yeni romanımın yayın programına dair ayrıntıları yakında paylaşacağım.
Tezer Özlü’nün dünyasını @thenation.com dergisi için yazdım: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters
Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tezer Özlü’nün dünyasını @thenation.com dergisi için yazdım: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
In @thenation.com @booksandthearts.bsky.social, I have a new essay on Tezer Özlü and her Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, that dwells on the connection between art and death. @transitbooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Tezer Özlü—the Rebel of Turkish Letters
Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art and death.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In @thenation.com @booksandthearts.bsky.social, I have a new essay on Tezer Özlü and her Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, that dwells on the connection between art and death. @transitbooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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What I love is how you weave cinema, politics and labour — from Ceylan’s films to Syrian tech workers rebuilding home. You map the region’s emotional + political geography without cliché or romance.
September 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What I love is how you weave cinema, politics and labour — from Ceylan’s films to Syrian tech workers rebuilding home. You map the region’s emotional + political geography without cliché or romance.
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Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has never openly referenced politics in his films, but taken together, his body of work forms one of the most compelling accounts available of what has become of Turkey under Erdogan’s rule.
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has never openly referenced politics in his films, but taken together, his body of work forms one of the most compelling accounts available of what has become of Turkey under Erdogan’s rule.
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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook: Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...
Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook
Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade. Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish student...
www.eurozine.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook: Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...
August 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In prosecuting Imamoglu & other elected administrators, the government is attempting to solidify the cynicism at the crux of its ideology: There’s no use in seeking moral purity, since only the powerful and the ruthless survive in today’s Turkey. @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In prosecuting Imamoglu & other elected administrators, the government is attempting to solidify the cynicism at the crux of its ideology: There’s no use in seeking moral purity, since only the powerful and the ruthless survive in today’s Turkey. @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
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Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...
Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook
Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade. Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish scholar...
www.eurozine.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...
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“I was wanted by Assad’s regime because I was an anti-government protestor. I said, ‘I’ll move for maybe one or two months.’ I stayed in Turkey for the next 13 years.”
Meet Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees and are now returning to rebuild
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
Meet Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees and are now returning to rebuild
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
August 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“I was wanted by Assad’s regime because I was an anti-government protestor. I said, ‘I’ll move for maybe one or two months.’ I stayed in Turkey for the next 13 years.”
Meet Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees and are now returning to rebuild
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
Meet Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees and are now returning to rebuild
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
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They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
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To Understand Erdogan's Turkey, Watch the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan says @kayagenc.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To Understand Erdogan's Turkey, Watch the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan says @kayagenc.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
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"The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey" by @kayagenc.bsky.social. [5/5]
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
"The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey" by @kayagenc.bsky.social. [5/5]
Reposted by Kaya Genç
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
Yeni Türkiye’nin Hayalcileri ve Alaycıları. @foreignpolicy.com için Nuri Bilge Ceylan ve sinemasını yazdım: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
Thank you @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and Megan Dubois, my editors at @foreignpolicy.com, for bringing Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dreamers and Cynics to readers:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Thank you @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and Megan Dubois, my editors at @foreignpolicy.com, for bringing Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dreamers and Cynics to readers:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
Yeni Türkiye’nin Hayalcileri ve Alaycıları. @foreignpolicy.com için Nuri Bilge Ceylan ve sinemasını yazdım: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yeni Türkiye’nin Hayalcileri ve Alaycıları. @foreignpolicy.com için Nuri Bilge Ceylan ve sinemasını yazdım: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
In recent months, the Turkish people have been asked to mind their own business as the Turkish government arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, whose politics of hope and social democratic ideals have run against the prevalent cynicism and opportunism of New Turkey. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In recent months, the Turkish people have been asked to mind their own business as the Turkish government arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, whose politics of hope and social democratic ideals have run against the prevalent cynicism and opportunism of New Turkey. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
In @foreignpolicy.com, I have an essay on Nuri Bilge Ceylan and “The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey”
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey
A renowned director quietly probes life under Erdogan.
foreignpolicy.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
In @foreignpolicy.com, I have an essay on Nuri Bilge Ceylan and “The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey”
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...
Reposted by Kaya Genç
Since the collapse of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees are returning to help rebuild their home country
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Since the collapse of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees are returning to help rebuild their home country
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
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Think about how differently you think about these people when they are "tech workers" versus when they are refugees.
Same people. But dignity only afforded them in one context.
Same people. But dignity only afforded them in one context.
Since the collapse of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian tech workers who fled as refugees are returning to help rebuild their home country
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
New from @kayagenc.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/syrian-...
They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry
After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
restofworld.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Think about how differently you think about these people when they are "tech workers" versus when they are refugees.
Same people. But dignity only afforded them in one context.
Same people. But dignity only afforded them in one context.