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Director for Special Research . Turkey + former Soviet Union, mostly. Email: schenkkan[at]freedomhouse[dot]org.

Joined January 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 20

    New policy brief from me on US-Turkey relations after the elections:

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    10 hours ago

    2/ While it's fantastic that Supreme Court reinstated right of to work in , what about the equally absurd ban on Vitaly Ponomarev, which may be somehow linked to this same flawed ruling? Bishkek's ban on 's also continues.

    1/ This is a great victory--but regrettably it may only be temporary. The Supreme Court reportedly overturned the case because the lower court had made its ruling in secrecy, but doesn't seem to have ruled on the merits of the preposterous "extremis…
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    20 hours ago

    The Supreme Court of overturns the decision of the lower court designating Reports of Bir Duino and ADC “Memorial” as “Extremist”

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Wilbur Ross went to Tashkent?

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Where has this Griffin been?

    50-14-6 on 20/35, 5/10 from deep, game-winning And-One with 1.8 left in OT, just one turnover. Played smart and solid defense all game. What a night for Blake Griffin.
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  6. 6 hours ago

    Humans are amazing:

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Some real William Gibson s*t over here

    In this case, once an app was acquired, the fraudsters secretly tracked the behavior of human users. Then they programmed an army of bots to mimic the same behaviors. Creepy, yes. Here’s…
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    7 hours ago

    Request for -- please add a dog whistle emoji. It is essential for

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  9. 10 hours ago

    Very short but very smart about what Turkey will need to do if it really wants the US to pivot from Saudi to a Turkey-centric strategy

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  10. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    My piece on Erdoğan’s broader agenda in today’s speech.

    In Erdogan’s quest for answers over ’s murder, there’s a broader agenda, writes
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    12 hours ago

    Excellent overview of Georgia's presidential election on Sunday.

    Presidential Elections Guide - With approaching, continues informing readers on upcoming polls offering brief compilation of information on procedures, administration, candidates&presidential powers …
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  12. 10 hours ago

    The problem is never just "over there."

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  13. 10 hours ago

    A lot of important details in this WSJ investigation of the giant money laundering scandal at Danske Bank's Estonian branch:

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  14. 11 hours ago

    File under "Things I am strongly biased towards believing"

    So what if a large share of all the problems on the internet are about Baby Boomers being on Facebook :/
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    12 hours ago

    Ivanishvili defends Justice Min Tsulukiani who said at that head Eka Gigauri 'possibly contributed to 2 November 2007 rally crackdown'. Bidzina says Gigauri and other 'UNM people' penetrated SCOs, using the platform to attack GD gov.

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    13 hours ago

    All Turkey needs to do is ask the UN secretary-general to launch a probe

    Turkey's foreign minister says Turkey would cooperate with international bodies if they were to launch an independent probe into the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.
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  17. 12 hours ago

    Read alongside 's scathing assessment of the Saudi regime:

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  18. 13 hours ago

    Still wrapping my head around how stupid this timeline is

    Truly the person I want explaining the Eurasian Economic Union is Rudy Giuliani
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    13 hours ago

    An abusive misogynist nazi. Oh wow, what a surprise.

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  20. 13 hours ago

    Good explainer on the deep disagreement behind the Turkish-Saudi divergence.

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    Oct 21

    FOUNDING FATHER: we must always have an electoral college and 2 senators per state ME: ok but what if 40 million people live in california FOUNDING FATHER (spits out tea prepared by a slave): there’s HOW many people in WHAT

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