Seckin Sertdemir
@seckinsertdemir.bsky.social
Author of Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State, Cambridge University Press (January 2025) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civic-death-in-contemporary-turkey/898D9A2EFDC70B683667087DD11B8AEE#fndtn-metrics
An insightful workshop with brilliant speakers 👇🏼
As the convenors @aykutozturk.bsky.social
we are happy to share the Autumn 2025 program for the PSA Turkish Politics Online Workshops (TPOWs)
@psaturkish.bsky.social
The registration information for the TPOWs will be here soon.
psaturkishpolitics.uk
we are happy to share the Autumn 2025 program for the PSA Turkish Politics Online Workshops (TPOWs)
@psaturkish.bsky.social
The registration information for the TPOWs will be here soon.
psaturkishpolitics.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
An insightful workshop with brilliant speakers 👇🏼
🚨 Call for Contributions! 🚨
The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c...
#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers
The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c...
#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers
Call for Papers: Turkish Politics in Transition – New Perspectives on State, Society, and Foreign Policy
The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialist Group invites contributions for an upcoming online workshop and a prospective special issue on the evolving landscape of Turkish poli…
psaturkishpolitics.uk
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 Call for Contributions! 🚨
The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c...
#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers
The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c...
#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers
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With great sadness we announce the passing of our colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following her extended illness. Fulya was internationally recognised for her scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and Islamic movements, and will be dearly missed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/condolences/...
In memory of Professor Fulya Atacan (1962- 2025) - Condolences
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following an extended period of illness. In January 2023, Professor Atacan was appointed as an LSE ...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
With great sadness we announce the passing of our colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following her extended illness. Fulya was internationally recognised for her scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and Islamic movements, and will be dearly missed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/condolences/...
cok uzucu... tum sevenlerinin basi sagolsun...
🔴 Barış Akademisyeni Fulya Atacan, hayatını kaybetti
🗣️ “Sevdiğim bir kişiyi günlerce dolapta saklamak zorunda kalsaydım nasıl yaşamıma devam edebilirdim diye düşündüm. İnsan kalabilmek için ses çıkarmak zorundaydım.”
bianet.org/haber/baris-...
🗣️ “Sevdiğim bir kişiyi günlerce dolapta saklamak zorunda kalsaydım nasıl yaşamıma devam edebilirdim diye düşündüm. İnsan kalabilmek için ses çıkarmak zorundaydım.”
bianet.org/haber/baris-...
July 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
cok uzucu... tum sevenlerinin basi sagolsun...
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Clear-eyed look at food devastation in Turkish life, including lack of access to nutritious food, including not only meat, but also fruits and vegetables, and pesticide contamination. Particularly damming, given Turkey’s great agricultural potential.
Extraordinary figures for a G20 economy.
"87.3 percent [of children] are unable to eat meat, chicken, or fish every day...39.5 percent of the Turkish population below 18 years of age are at risk of poverty."
"87.3 percent [of children] are unable to eat meat, chicken, or fish every day...39.5 percent of the Turkish population below 18 years of age are at risk of poverty."
My latest piece for @globalvoices.org: Beyond the scale: Unpacking Turkey's obesity challenge amidst economic strain and food safety fears globalvoices.org/2025/06/27/b...
July 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Clear-eyed look at food devastation in Turkish life, including lack of access to nutritious food, including not only meat, but also fruits and vegetables, and pesticide contamination. Particularly damming, given Turkey’s great agricultural potential.
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📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
June 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
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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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Our Kurdish Studies Conference (11-13 June) will close with a screening of All The Mountains Give, followed by a Q&A with Director Arash Rakhsha.
The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...
The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...
June 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Our Kurdish Studies Conference (11-13 June) will close with a screening of All The Mountains Give, followed by a Q&A with Director Arash Rakhsha.
The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...
The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...
Very much looking forward to my virtual book launch tomorrow!
Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Very much looking forward to my virtual book launch tomorrow!
Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week.
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week.
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social
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🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Turkish Politics and Society in Flux: Identity, Policy, and Transnational Dynamics
The 34th BATAS Spring Symposium
www.lse.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
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Otuz yıllık onurlu direniş!
#CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl
#CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl
May 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Otuz yıllık onurlu direniş!
#CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl
#CumartesiAnneleri30Yıl
please sign the petition 👇
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
please sign the petition 👇
here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇
Missed Seçkin Sertdemir's book launch on 'Civic Death in Contemporary #Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State'?
🎧 Catch up with the full recording now on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas... @cambridgeup.bsky.social
🎧 Catch up with the full recording now on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas... @cambridgeup.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
May 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
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Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis"
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
www.academia.edu
May 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis"
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
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I’m off to Istanbul today - my first ever visit to Turkey. Looking forward to sharing some killjoy solidarity & meeting in defiance! I shared a few thoughts on my newsletter, which includes a link to the livestream for the lecture on Wed with the title, No!
open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
Meeting in Defiance
Some thoughts on “no” before travelling to Istanbul
open.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I’m off to Istanbul today - my first ever visit to Turkey. Looking forward to sharing some killjoy solidarity & meeting in defiance! I shared a few thoughts on my newsletter, which includes a link to the livestream for the lecture on Wed with the title, No!
open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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Lecturer Chris Hogg of @royalholloway.bsky.social found the question of using #AI to create #art troubled his students so deeply, they walked out of the class. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-... #GenAI #artificialintelligence
‘What I learned when students walked out of my AI class’
Chris Hogg found the question of using AI to create art troubled his students deeply. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding for both student and educator
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Lecturer Chris Hogg of @royalholloway.bsky.social found the question of using #AI to create #art troubled his students so deeply, they walked out of the class. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-... #GenAI #artificialintelligence
I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars!
#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇
#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇
Join us on 4 June for the launch of Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey by @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social
with discussants Banu Bargu & Elise Massicard.
🔗 The event will take place on Zoom.
⏰ 9AM PT / 5PM BST / 6PM CEST |
For details & registration ⬇️
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/05/03/v...
with discussants Banu Bargu & Elise Massicard.
🔗 The event will take place on Zoom.
⏰ 9AM PT / 5PM BST / 6PM CEST |
For details & registration ⬇️
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/05/03/v...
Virtual Book Launch: Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Dr. Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir’s new book, Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State (Cambridge University Press)…
psaturkishpolitics.uk
May 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars!
#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇
#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇
Such a great initiative — highly recommend this workshop 👇🏼
We invite abstract submissions for the inaugural meeting of theScotland Workshop on Turkish Politics
📍School of Social & Political Sciences, University of
Glasgow
📅 18 June 2025
Deadline :30 May
@aykutozturk.bsky.social @ugurozdemir.bsky.social
📍School of Social & Political Sciences, University of
Glasgow
📅 18 June 2025
Deadline :30 May
@aykutozturk.bsky.social @ugurozdemir.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Such a great initiative — highly recommend this workshop 👇🏼
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Wild stuff.
The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.
It does not require court approval for anything.
The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.
It does not require court approval for anything.
The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Wild stuff.
The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.
It does not require court approval for anything.
The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.
It does not require court approval for anything.
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Plans to break with a 40-year tradition and allow dual-use and defence-related projects to be funded under Horizon Europe have been branded “unacceptable” by leading research universities
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope
Alarm over EU plan to use Horizon funding for defence
Concerns framework programme’s budget could be redirected to back projects with military uses ‘threatens to undermine its core purpose,’ say leading research universities
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Plans to break with a 40-year tradition and allow dual-use and defence-related projects to be funded under Horizon Europe have been branded “unacceptable” by leading research universities
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope
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I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...
Webinar: How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book
Learn what scholarly writers need to know when trying to publish for broader readerships and markets. Webinar hosted by Laura Portwood-Stacer with guest Kate McKean, literary agent and author of Write...
courses.manuscriptworks.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...
@evreki.bsky.social'dan Turkiye'nin siyasal gecmisi ve gelecegine dair harika bir yazi:
"Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı"
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...
"Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı"
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...
Eski Türkiye, yeni Türkiye
Son dönemde giderek daha sık karşıma çıkan “eski Türkiye” nostaljisinin, bizi bulunduğumuz yerde sabitleme ve siyasal tahayyülümüzü sınırlama riski taşıdığını düşünüyorum. Bugün ana meselemiz kimliğim...
t24.com.tr
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@evreki.bsky.social'dan Turkiye'nin siyasal gecmisi ve gelecegine dair harika bir yazi:
"Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı"
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...
"Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı"
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...