Carlos Ortega Sánchez
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Carlos Ortega Sánchez
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Ph.D. Candidate at Istanbul University | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
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📚 Exploring the politics of memory in contemporary Turkey.
This piece delves into the emergence of ‘memory sites’—museums and theme parks—designed to reinterpret and reconstruct the nation’s past.

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Widok Traumy i chwały: polityka, narracje i pamięć pod rządami Partii Sprawiedliwości i Rozwoju w Turcji
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Reposted by Carlos Ortega Sánchez
📈In Spain, only 35 out of 17,850 cemeteries offer Muslim sections, and many have no available space or are abandoned.
In Germany, more than 80% of Muslims of Turkish origin choose repatriation.
Here are some facts about the situation 👇🏾
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In Europe, dying with dignity is a luxury. In my analysis for the Anna Lindh Foundation on Muslim Burial Rights in Europe I explore how the severe lack of Muslim cemeteries in Spain 🇪🇸 & Germany 🇩🇪 exposes a systemic failure of integration and belonging.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“Ormansız ve ağaçsız toprak vatan değildir”. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

🇹🇷 Cumhuriyet Bayramınız kutlu olsun
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🍃🍄Ömerağzı’nda sonbahar🌲
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“The Genoese House” in Galata. With columns dating from the 4th–5th centuries, it was used between the 13th and 15th centuries as a shop, residence, and possibly as an annex of the Church of St Paul (now the Arab Mosque).

📍Ceneviz Sanat, Galata
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Sea of Marmara with the islands of Yassıada and Sivriada, and in the background, the Armutlu Peninsula.
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trend Topic podcast’i sona erdi, bence dinlediğim en iyi podcast’lerden biri (ister Türkçe, ister İngilizce, ister İspanyolca olsun). Bu podcast bana eşlik etti ve yaşadığım ülkenin birçok gerçeğini anlamama yardımcı oldu.
Ağzına sağlık @ozngndgdu.bsky.social .

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484: Sonsöz
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October 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“View of the Bosphorus” (1856), by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817–1900).
October 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Carlos Ortega Sánchez
‼️Cultura dejará de contratar el software israelí que usa la Biblioteca Nacional
Cultura dejará de contratar el software israelí que usa la Biblioteca Nacional
La medida se toma tras la carta de más de 500 bibliotecarios y es parte de las medidas del Real Decreto-ley contra el genocidio en Gaza, que prohibe la importación de productos procedentes de los asen...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🗿🇹🇷 En Karahantepe, Turquía, se ha descubierto un obelisco con forma de T con rostro humano de 12.000 años.
Es la primera vez que se encuentran rasgos faciales completos en un monolito neolítico.
October 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Carlos Ortega Sánchez
A Global Sumud Flotilla activist:

This is the first biggest trip of the flotilla, but there will be more.

We will not stop until Palestine is free.
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🛤️The typical landscape of the Phrygian Way: wheel tracks carved into the rock, the result of centuries of passage, from the time of the Phrygians (13th–8th centuries BCE) to the Roman period and even the early Byzantine era.

📍Kütahya, Turkey
October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📍 Doğluşah, Kütahya
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by Carlos Ortega Sánchez
Madrid se desborda en estos momentos en apoyo a Palestina 🇵🇸
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🍂Kütahya’nın Frig Yolu🌲
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Haftalık kedi dozu 🐈 🐈‍⬛
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📍 Süleyman Halife Sıbyan Mektebi Çeşmesi, Fatih (1728)
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Carlos Ortega Sánchez
¿Qué suponen unos cuantos actos de piratería para un Estado que lleva cometidos incontables actos de genocidio?

#GlobalSumudFlotilla
October 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Pavilion of Adile Sultan, sister of Sultan Abdulaziz, built in 1853 by the architect Nikogos Balyan.

📍Adile Sultan Kasrı, Validebağ Korusu
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🍁Serindere’de sonbahar 🍂
September 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Bu hafta çok güzel yerlere gittim 🎙️
September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🏛️ Museums in Istanbul are open until 10 PM every day until October 1st.

Last night I took a nighttime stroll through the Archaeological Museum and spent some quality time alone admiring the Alexander Sarcophagus (312 BC).
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Günaydın 🌞
May 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM