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. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    This is how it all starts:

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  3. 3 hours ago

    I believe it started at Lausanne, and was only briefly interrupted in the early Cold War when the Patriarch could serve a potential ally against the Soviet Union

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  4. 3 hours ago

    No offense to Putin or Erdogan, but Turkey's long game to undermine the Patriarch predates both of them...

    The Embattled Ecumenical Patriarch Caught Between and | In our latest piece, and I expose & 's long game to undermine the , a cornerstone of their anti-Western strategy. …
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  5. 6 hours ago

    I like how when you order a cortado in DC these days you never know if you’re going to get a latte or a macchiato

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  6. Retweeted
    Oct 30

    New episode 📚📢📡

    Episode #76 - Begüm Adalet on the Cold War origins of the Turkey-US relationship
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  7. 9 hours ago

    Damn, that's a harsh review.

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  8. Oct 30

    also does this make the repeal of prohibition undemocratic too?

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  9. Oct 30

    also if Brexit went through and then some future British government wanted to join the EU again would that be undemocratic?

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  10. Oct 30

    so undemocratic in the same way as voting someone out of office after their first term?

    A second Brexit referendum might be good in policy terms, but it's problematic in democratic terms. Basically, it's a do-over after too many voters realized, after the fact, that they weren't willing to live with an outcome that they considered personally threatening
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  11. Oct 30

    Hoping for some answers here...

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  12. Oct 30

    For anyone in Istanbul next Thursday this ARIT lecture looks fascinating:

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  13. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    If you’re going to smoke Turkish tobacco, why not use real Ottoman rolling papers?

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  14. Oct 30

    I mean, everyone makes mistakes, its the defiant doubling down on them that impresses me:

    Şu tiplerin ezikliği beni öldürecek. İlanda tek bir hata bile yok. Hava alanının yabancı basındaki adı başından beri "Istanbul New Airport". Bir de "travelling" "travel" olacakmışmış. "Ways of travelling" kullanımı daha bile…
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  15. Oct 30

    Instead of letting foreigners continue to dictate how to speak foreign languages, the New Turkey will create its own yerli ve milli English for use in all international forums...

    In today’s ⁦⁩
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  16. Oct 30

    America even makes a brief appearance

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  17. Oct 30

    History!

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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 30

    Of all the Istanbul book covers out there this might be my favorite:

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  19. Oct 30

    Sabah columnists went on to explain that in its size & sophistication, the new airport is a victory of the Turkish republic, a realization of Ataturk's ideals & a symbol of Turkey's place world, all despite repeated attacks by political rivals at home & imperial powers abroad

    “This is not just an airport. This is a monument to victory,” reads sign at the opening ceremony of the new Istanbul airport.
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  20. Oct 30

    Some nice neighborhood maps inside too:

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