Selim Koru
@selimkoru.bsky.social
Scholar of political ideas, Nietzsche, Turkey.
Affiliations:
@NottsPolitics, @TEPAV, @FPRI
Tweets in English & Turkish.
Words: @nytimes, @WarOnTheRocks, etc.
Substack: https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/
Affiliations:
@NottsPolitics, @TEPAV, @FPRI
Tweets in English & Turkish.
Words: @nytimes, @WarOnTheRocks, etc.
Substack: https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/
Got a pair of Altras recently. Pretty good.
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Got a pair of Altras recently. Pretty good.
This is how my wife thinks I load the dishwasher.
And for the record, she's wrong, OK? I'm much faster.
Much faster.
And for the record, she's wrong, OK? I'm much faster.
Much faster.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is how my wife thinks I load the dishwasher.
And for the record, she's wrong, OK? I'm much faster.
Much faster.
And for the record, she's wrong, OK? I'm much faster.
Much faster.
isn't Musk building millions of robots?
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
isn't Musk building millions of robots?
no and yes. I'm writing about this.
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
no and yes. I'm writing about this.
but if you do it right, you're unassailable by the time people could call you out on it.
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
but if you do it right, you're unassailable by the time people could call you out on it.
But yeah, there is constantly this desire at the top to push beyond narrow national identity and command empires. I'm not sure people in these countries feel the same way. Feelings in Turkey are certainly very mixed, mostly in favor of the nation.
Putin's remarks today in Valdai are all pretty familiar, but one thing more Westerners ought to appreciate is his repetition of his fundamentally multiethnic philosophy of Russian nationalism/patriotism. "Russians are those who love and serve Russia," Putin just said, quoting Peter the Great.
October 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
But yeah, there is constantly this desire at the top to push beyond narrow national identity and command empires. I'm not sure people in these countries feel the same way. Feelings in Turkey are certainly very mixed, mostly in favor of the nation.
I think it's important to look at the movements rather than trying to guess at the tastes of the man in charge. I can't think of a non-ethnic Russian leading after Putin, just as I don't see a Kurd taking over from Erdoğan. It wouldn't work.
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I think it's important to look at the movements rather than trying to guess at the tastes of the man in charge. I can't think of a non-ethnic Russian leading after Putin, just as I don't see a Kurd taking over from Erdoğan. It wouldn't work.
Reposted by Selim Koru
"New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" with @selimkoru.bsky.social and @reubensilverman.bsky.social. [2/5]
Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" with @selimkoru.bsky.social and @reubensilverman.bsky.social. [2/5]
Yeah, I'm with Jim here.
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yeah, I'm with Jim here.
Agreed. I always wondered why there isn't more of this.
September 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Agreed. I always wondered why there isn't more of this.
Yeah, it got attention all right. Here is the author, reviewing it: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Yeah, it got attention all right. Here is the author, reviewing it: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...