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. 33 minutes ago

    also, yes, the US has something of a record of violating non-citizens' rights to due process, but overseas. a lot harder to do at home.

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  3. 36 minutes ago

    To be fair, while the story about Chomsky championing Erdogan is false, the story about Slavoj Zizek getting in an argument with a pro-Erdogan columnist over dildos is totally real

    A headscarved woman urinated on by Gezi protesters, Chomsky championing Erdogan, the BBC complicit in Besiktas stadium attack:some of the baseless claims that rank 1st of countries exposed to made-up stories. My piece for our series …
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  4. 41 minutes ago

    To review: 1. Bar for extradition is low but inflexible. 2. Final decision made by a judge, not Trump. 3. Lot of evidence linking Gulenists to the coup . 4. Nothing solid from Turkey personally implicating Gulen. 5. Then there's the UN convention against torture.

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    1 hour ago

    Turkey tip for journalists new to the beat: if you call Fethullah Gülen a “prominent dissident” or “exiled cleric” and leave it at that, you’re doing it really wrong.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Took the Hershey train with and have to say it was amazing, if perhaps not - in terms of total miles covered - technically a journey

    My article on bumping along the Hershey railway line in Cuba for new ⁦⁩ book Amazing Train Journeys
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  7. Retweeted
    Nov 12

    Raqqa, Syria: New field investigation by "points to an offensive that killed many more civilians than it did ISIS members, and where the majority of those civilians likely died in American airstrikes."

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    21 hours ago

    "Washington’s reading of World War I reflects the central tenet of all too many contemporary op-eds: A forceful policy of liberal internationalism will always prevent war, never require it." This piece by is a sobering read.

    It is comforting to conclude that the US could have helped prevent WWII by committing to the construction of a liberal, rules-based European order after 1918. But is that right?
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  9. Retweeted
    Nov 13

    Trump’ın SDNY’daki Halkbank soruşturmasını/olası yeni davayı idari bir kararla engelleyebileceğini düşünenler SDNY’daki Cohen soruşturmasını iyi takip etmeli. Trump yeni adalet bakanına bazı soruşturmaların kapatılması talimatı verecekse heralde önce kendisini düşünecektir!

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  10. Nov 14

    Wait did just implicitly criticize Sykes-Picot for not creating an independent Kurdistan?

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  11. Nov 14

    For more information, check out Esra Ozyurek’s Nostalgia for the Modern

    Turkey's Islamists may have defeated Kemalism, but not Ataturk
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  12. Nov 13

    Indeed! And great to be at an event where the discussions of NATO’s “weakened internal solidarity” aren’t even about Turkey

    Great to be at for a simulation exploring how could deal with external threats and weakened internal solidarity.…
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  13. Nov 13

    Or, almost as troubling, say anything to give Erdogan that impression

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  14. Nov 13

    Deeply troubling to think Trump would green-light Zarrab’s extradition in return for Turkish cooperation on Iran or Brunson

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  15. Nov 13

    It also seems entirely possible to me that he assumed - incorrectly but not implausibly - that Assad would fall without US intervention.

    The theory that Obama didn’t intervene in Syria to protect the Iran deal is widely accepted in some circles, but mostly wrong. He didn’t want to intervene. It’s far more true and very bad, but less popular to note, that he supported the Saudis in Yemen to protect the Iran deal.
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  16. Nov 13

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    CNN sues Donald Trump's administration, alleges that the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta's rights under the constitution by revoking press credentials after heated exchange with the president
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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 13

    My new Council Special Report, "Neither Friend Nor Foe: The Future of US- Relations," The strategic relationship is a relic of the past.

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  18. Retweeted
    Nov 13

    A thoughtful piece from essential reading amidst the rituals of remembrance this Armistice Day.

    It is comforting to conclude that the US could have helped prevent WWII by committing to the construction of a liberal, rules-based European order after 1918. But is that right?
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  19. Retweeted
    Nov 12

    There were a million and one 'natives' telling this fellow he was talking nonsense; but of course, focus on the one that fits your narrative by all means...

    Another day, another settler telling the native what it is that he actually needs because she knows better.
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  20. Nov 13

    Questions that a Saudi grand jury will undoubtedly agonize over in deciding whether to indict a sitting crown prince

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  21. Nov 13

    Replying to @profmusgrave @nataliesurely
    And let's not forget about the Lusitania false flag that they created to garner support from the American people.
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