Sabri Ciftci
@drciftci.bsky.social
Political science, Muslim politics, Turkish politics, #KansasStateUniversity
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Israel continues to implement the Gaza ceasefire by killing 104 Palestinians
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
At least 104 killed, including 46 children, by IDF strikes on Gaza, Health ministry says
Israel Carried Out Airstrikes Against Several Targets in the Gaza Strip After Accusing Hamas of Violating the Cease-fire, in an Incident That Killed an IDF Engineering Team Reservist in Rafah. After t...
www.haaretz.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Israel continues to implement the Gaza ceasefire by killing 104 Palestinians
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...
Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal
Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...
Happy to share this article. Four years in making, a true labor of love, Unruly Mystics and the State is out in Studies in Comparative International Development
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Unruly Mystics and the State: Antinomian Dervishes, Religion, and State Formation in Medieval Anatolia
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July 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Happy to share this article. Four years in making, a true labor of love, Unruly Mystics and the State is out in Studies in Comparative International Development
rdcu.be/evAoN
rdcu.be/evAoN
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This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims
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June 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
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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:
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June 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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-...
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
May 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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Know someone who's made an impressive contribution to the field of R&P? The deadline for nominations for the SHR Outstanding Scholar Award has been extended until April 30, 2025. Check out our Call for Nominations for the award description and instructions. connect.apsanet.org/s11/call-for...
Call for Section Award Nominations
Each year, Religion and Politics recognizes significant contributions to the field. We invite your nominations (including self-nominations) for our 2025 awards. All nominations are due by April 1. 202...
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April 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Know someone who's made an impressive contribution to the field of R&P? The deadline for nominations for the SHR Outstanding Scholar Award has been extended until April 30, 2025. Check out our Call for Nominations for the award description and instructions. connect.apsanet.org/s11/call-for...
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We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
#TurkishPolitics folks at @mpsa.bsky.social join us in 15 minutes at Clark 5 on 7th floor for the roundtable on Turkish politics featuring A. Carkoglu, @pelinamus.bsky.social Z. Sarigil, M. Wuthrich and yours truly @drciftci.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#TurkishPolitics folks at @mpsa.bsky.social join us in 15 minutes at Clark 5 on 7th floor for the roundtable on Turkish politics featuring A. Carkoglu, @pelinamus.bsky.social Z. Sarigil, M. Wuthrich and yours truly @drciftci.bsky.social
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Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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New — 34 members of Congress are demanding answers from DHS, ICE, and the State Department on the arrests of Rumeysa Ozturk and several other students, seemingly for their political views.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New — 34 members of Congress are demanding answers from DHS, ICE, and the State Department on the arrests of Rumeysa Ozturk and several other students, seemingly for their political views.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
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Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
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Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Time to update this post. It looks like the bird site has totally lost coherence and I hope this place will help carry academic exchanges/good conversation.
I have been here for two months and this place looks like The NY Times of social media. Despite all criticism, Musk’s place is still my “to go”choice for academic news as well as info on Palestine. Weeding out misinformation is not hard on the bird site and I am ok to sometimes feel uncomfortable.
January 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Time to update this post. It looks like the bird site has totally lost coherence and I hope this place will help carry academic exchanges/good conversation.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional
networks among academic economists. Specifically, we
created 80 human-like bot accounts that claim to be Ph...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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No consequences were applied when Israel first first missiles at Gazan hospitals, nor when the first hospital massacre was perpetrated, nor after for killing hundreds of medical workers.
Now the same tactics are being deployed in the West Bank.
Utterly amoral conduct.
Now the same tactics are being deployed in the West Bank.
Utterly amoral conduct.
Israeli forces surround Palestinian hospital and refugee camp in West Bank
Israel defence minister calls Jenin siege ‘shift in … security strategy’, as Palestinian Red Crescent says ambulances cannot reach dead and wounded
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
No consequences were applied when Israel first first missiles at Gazan hospitals, nor when the first hospital massacre was perpetrated, nor after for killing hundreds of medical workers.
Now the same tactics are being deployed in the West Bank.
Utterly amoral conduct.
Now the same tactics are being deployed in the West Bank.
Utterly amoral conduct.
I have been here for two months and this place looks like The NY Times of social media. Despite all criticism, Musk’s place is still my “to go”choice for academic news as well as info on Palestine. Weeding out misinformation is not hard on the bird site and I am ok to sometimes feel uncomfortable.
January 6, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I have been here for two months and this place looks like The NY Times of social media. Despite all criticism, Musk’s place is still my “to go”choice for academic news as well as info on Palestine. Weeding out misinformation is not hard on the bird site and I am ok to sometimes feel uncomfortable.
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“A society that sanctifies indiscriminate death and killing loses its moral superiority and the justification for its existence. This is the second massive blow that Hamas is on the way to landing on us, and it is even more terrible than the first.” - Uri Misgav
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...
Opinion | Sanctifying the indiscriminate killing in Gaza is Israel's second defeat
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www.haaretz.com
December 29, 2023 at 1:57 PM
“A society that sanctifies indiscriminate death and killing loses its moral superiority and the justification for its existence. This is the second massive blow that Hamas is on the way to landing on us, and it is even more terrible than the first.” - Uri Misgav
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...
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"The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo 2013-2016"
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December 24, 2023 at 3:20 PM
"The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo 2013-2016"
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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HRW: Israel using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime it isn’t even trying to hide.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...
www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...
Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza
The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking...
www.hrw.org
December 18, 2023 at 10:59 AM
HRW: Israel using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime it isn’t even trying to hide.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...
www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...
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New PCPSR poll of West Bank and Gaza: rising support for Hamas, further decline for PA (90% want Abu Mazen to resign), rising support for armed struggle in the WB, little support for PA or Arab role in Gaza, most blame Israel/US and not Hamas for the situation.
pcpsr.org/en/node/961
pcpsr.org/en/node/961
Press Release: Public Opinion Poll No (90) | PCPSR
pcpsr.org
December 14, 2023 at 11:05 AM
New PCPSR poll of West Bank and Gaza: rising support for Hamas, further decline for PA (90% want Abu Mazen to resign), rising support for armed struggle in the WB, little support for PA or Arab role in Gaza, most blame Israel/US and not Hamas for the situation.
pcpsr.org/en/node/961
pcpsr.org/en/node/961
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Judith Butler: “The crisis of academic freedom we are currently facing is as acute as any since the McCarthy years in the United States.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
There Can Be No Critique - Boston Review
Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.
www.bostonreview.net
December 14, 2023 at 11:17 AM
Judith Butler: “The crisis of academic freedom we are currently facing is as acute as any since the McCarthy years in the United States.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...