Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Nov 2017

    basically anything i say or write about turkey these days i end up desperately hoping turns out to be wrong

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  2. 9 hours ago

    The exercises will simulate a coordinated attack against Islamist rebels receiving logistical support from an unspecified NATO country...

    invited to join the biggest Russian military drills since decades, -2018! Also and Mongolia participate.…
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  3. 11 hours ago

    A sober assessment of Erdogan's upcoming trip to Berlin from

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  4. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    “Erdoğan Ağustos 10 da NY Times’da yazdığı yazıda Batı’yı Türkiye’nin yeni arkadaşlar ve müttefikler bulabileceği ile uyarmıştı, şimdi WSJ da yazdığı yazı ile onlara karşı Batı’nın desteğini istiyor...”

    After an August 10th oped in the NYTimes warning the West that Turkey would "start looking for new friends and allies," Erdogan pens a follow up in the WSJ calling for Western support against his new friends and allies: …
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  5. 12 hours ago

    Is there a lesson about supporting al qaeda affiliates in syria or is that too much of a stretch?

    "TASC remembers the lessons of 9/11, which is that support for the Taliban against Russia resulted in Al Qaeda. Similarly, support for the Shiites in Iraq created ISIS from the alienated Sunnis, and U.S. support for the YPG-PKK...in Syria today will come to hurt all of…
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  6. 13 hours ago

    Fascinating piece on fake miniatures, islamic science, and the always awkward business of bad history in the service of good politics from 's own Nir Shafir. ht

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  7. 14 hours ago

    Reminded of the way the Irish epic "The Cattle Raid of Cooley" was renamed "The Táin" to make it sound more epic-y

    Fun fact: Ever wondered why it's called The Iliad? Because Ilium was another name for Troy, and the -ad suffix was used to mean "The Story of." This means that, if you translated the title, The Iliad should actually…
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  8. 15 hours ago

    Replace "sex historians" with "turkey experts" and "favorite anecdote about victorian-era orgasms" with "some dumb cliche about turkey" and this captures my feelings perfectly

    [SCREAMS] [BURNS DOWN THE INTERNET] …
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  9. 16 hours ago

    After an August 10th oped in the NYTimes warning the West that Turkey would "start looking for new friends and allies," Erdogan pens a follow up in the WSJ calling for Western support against his new friends and allies:

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 9

    10 Eylül 1933: Yunanistan Başbakanı Panagis Tsaldaris'in Türkiye ziyareti vesilesiyle basılmış Türk-Yunan dostluğunu sembolize eden bir görsel

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  11. Sep 10

    Wait the director of Before the Rain made an Ottoman/Balkan themed Western?!?!?

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  12. Sep 10

    No one?

    Anyone working around franklin square interested in some low stakes backgammon during their lunch break when the weather gets better?
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  13. Sep 10

    “In taking and holding prisoners to combat the West’s presumed hostility, Ankara ends up creating the kind of hostility it imagines,”

    With comments from and myself …
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  14. Sep 10

    Anyone working around franklin square interested in some low stakes backgammon during their lunch break when the weather gets better?

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  15. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    My copy of ’s book on ISIS networks in Turkey has finally arrived. I looked through an advance copy and was blown away by the quality and non-polemical nature of the reporting. Can’t recommend it enough.

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  16. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    Stabilitocracy

    “If Turkey becomes unstable, we'll have a huge problem in Europe," claim sources close to Merkel. They are worried about potential consequences for the eurozone and the German economy, about the 3 million Turks living in Germany +
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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    Spot on: The question of whether or not some person or institution of the past was racist, sexist, imperialist, xenophobic, etc. is both less interesting and less useful than asking what conditions have historically promoted such evils, or conversely, enabled their diminution

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  18. Sep 10

    "From Xenophon to Xenophobia: Turkey, the land of History" "We cleared out the minorities to make space for you!" "If you loved Greece but didnt like the Greeks..."

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  19. Sep 10

    Turns out Turkeys efforts to promote tourism in the 50s downplayed the country’s history of violent xenophobia. So many missed slogan opportunities....

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  20. Sep 10

    Damn.

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  21. Sep 10

    Only partway through this book, but I’m starting to get the sense US development aid to Turkey didn’t always live up to the hype

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