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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    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. 8 hours ago

    Turkey reduced its oil imports from Iran and got a temporary sanctions waiver. Its a real tribute to both Erdogan and Trump that this otherwise normal development now seems like the result of a corrupt bargain:

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Amidst all the other tributes to Bulent Ecevit on the anniversary of his death, here's a remarkable collection of his early newspaper columns put together by Sarah-Neel Smith and

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  4. 11 hours ago

    One of the most depressing things I heard recently is that the HDP cant give an exact count of how many of its party members are in jail because the two party members responsible for keeping track have been jailed.

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    13 hours ago

    Pleased to have contributed to this fascinating conversation about Syrian migration to the United States at the intersection of nativism and deportation in the 1930s. Check it out!

    In Episode 2 of Deporting Ottoman Americans series, we explore the history of the Arab diaspora through the story of a factory worker named Hassan and his fight to stay in the US
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  6. 15 hours ago

    An important, even-handed and thoroughly discouraging look at the situation in Manbij from

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  13. 16 hours ago

    Some final ephemera from the flickr feed

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  15. 17 hours ago

    And the seal on another map from the same collection

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  16. 17 hours ago

    A World War One Era German Map of Aleppo

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    Nov 3

    In 1948, Yeni Mecmua Yayini published a serialized and slightly edited translation of Gustave Schlumberger’s account of the conquest of Istanbul. I’m posting the covers because they’re amazing. Here’s Fatih doing some warm-up conquering in the Balkans

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  20. Nov 4

    Free hot take for Armistice Day: World War One never ended

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    Nov 4

    Mans looks like chases cognac w/ Drakkar Noir every morning & invented mansplaining back in the ‘50s

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