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. 23 hours ago

    Will they be holding a match in Edirne?

    Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania will explore a potential joint Balkan bid to host the 2030 World Cup, the countries' leaders announce during quadrilateral summit
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    Nov 2

    What about the other Americans being held in ? What about the Foreign Service Nationals? "U.S. lifts sanctions on two top Turkish officials"

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  4. Nov 2

    If Jeff Sessions is suddenly looking to spend some money in Turkey I can recommend some good used book stores

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  5. Nov 2

    Looks like the US attorney general and Secretary of the Interior are off the hook as well

    Breaking: lifts sanctions on interior and justice ministers following pastor Brunson’s return to the country. The sanctions have been mutually lifted.
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  6. Nov 2

    Disappointed the doesnt give Erdogan any credit for his efforts:

    At a time when accountability is declining in both the U.S. government and corporate America, there is little external oversight of a company like McKinsey, and we are left asking the people at the firm to impose it on themselves.
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  7. Nov 1

    Far be it from me to lecture a nobel prize winner on how to write, but if you want to keep the focus of, say, an obituary on the departed, rather than yourself, at least through the second paragraph, i have some suggestions:

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    Nov 1

    If we're doing alliterative naming of our enemies (the Triad of Tyranny - urgh), we might as well be prepared: Axis of Anarchy Beasts of Barbarism Cabal of Cruelty Duo of Despotism Epidemic of Evil Fraternity of Fear Gang of Greed Hive of Horror Infidels of Iniquity cont.

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  9. Nov 1

    A moving essay from Orhan Pamuk on Ara Guler (and also, inevitably, Orhan Pamuk)

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  10. Nov 1

    If not their whole lives. Hale Yilmaz has a great chapter about it in her book "Becoming Turkish"

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  11. Nov 1

    also, something that makes perfect sense but they dont tell you when you first learn about this: people obviously kept using the old script for decades

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  12. Nov 1

    An obligatory Cemal Nadir cartoon in honor of the anniversary of the Turkish alphabet reform

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  13. Oct 31

    🧿 now they just need a cracked nazar emoji 🧿

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  14. Retweeted
    Oct 31

    This is how it all starts:

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  15. Oct 31

    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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  16. Oct 31

    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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  17. Oct 31

    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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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 30

    New episode 📚📢📡

    Episode #76 - Begüm Adalet on the Cold War origins of the Turkey-US relationship
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  19. Oct 31

    Damn, that's a harsh review.

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  20. Oct 30

    also does this make the repeal of prohibition undemocratic too?

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