Howard Eissenstat

@heissenstat

Mostly Turkey. and . Opinions-and snark-are mine alone. Contact: heissens AT

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  1. 2 minutes ago

    Though, in fairness, they would hire different Turkish staff.

    If Turkey was still a good ally, FDD would be excusing this kind of thing as enthusiastically as they did Khashoggi's murder
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    54 minutes ago

    Osman Kavala, liberal, committed to democracy philanthropist in Turkey and all around decent human being remains detained... almost two years now.

    It has been 530 days BEHIND BARS!
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  3. 53 minutes ago

    I do admire how they say this shit with a straight face.

    Devlet Bahçeli: "Mazbatayı stadyuma taşımak rekabeti düşmanlığa taşır"
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    2 hours ago

    Az önce serbest bırakılan sevgili Mustafa Sönmez, gözaltı sürecini ve suçlamaları Kartal Adliyesi önünde şöyle anlattı:

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    4 hours ago

    Gözaltındaki Emniyet'te ifade verdi. Suçlamaya inanamayacaksınız: Sönmez, dün Beşiktaş Çarşı'da çektiği videoda yer alan sloganlar yüzünden Cumhurbaşkanına hakaretle suçlanıyor... Sönmez biraz sonra savcılığa sevk edilebilir...Savcı çağırmaya gerek de görmeyebilir.

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    22 hours ago

    Hurriyet: "Ugly attack on the Turkish economy from Reuters, Bloomberg and the Financial Times"

    Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times'tan Türk ekonomisine çirkin saldırı
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    18 hours ago

    Beşiktaş stadı: “Mazbatayı ver. Mazbatayı ver. İmamoğlu’na mazbatayı ver”

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    19 hours ago

    The director who made a tedious and paranoid movie out of a KGB active measure being retweeted by the former head of Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee. Too perfect.

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    23 hours ago

    “A lot of [the AKP’s] discourse and legitimation has been based on the ballot box... That’s good when you’re winning elections, but what happens when you start losing them?” I spoke with on the state of Turkey’s (non)democracy.

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    20 hours ago

    HDP, KHK'lı adaylarla ilgili kararın iptal için YSK'ya başvurdu

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  11. 20 hours ago

    Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Imamoglu is allowed to govern Istanbul, but the HDP is still closed out and that Imamoglu's authority is whittled away. What then? The opposition needs unity and it needs a long-term strategy. I'm not convinced it has either.

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  12. 20 hours ago

    More immediately, what should the opposition do about attacks on elected HDP officials? CHP and Iyi Party accepted "trustees" and prosecution of HDP officials before? Can they really accept them again? This means more than a little wrestling with the opposition's own demons

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  13. 20 hours ago

    Whether to boycott or not is an important question, but needs to be framed in larger context: what is the opposition's game plan for survival? What areas of independence can be carved out? These questions can only be addressed if opposition is steely-eyed about Turkey's reality

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  14. 20 hours ago

    Some discussion of potential boycott should there be a re-run of the Istanbul elections. I am agnostic. That said, this is what I wrote about the opposition's unpalatable choices last year.

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    Apr 12

    There are statements out today unqualifiedly opposing Israeli annexation from four of the staunchest pro-Israel House Dems, and from nine mainstream Jewish organizations including and my own . People here are paying close attention to this issue.

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  16. Apr 12

    Turkey may well be too big to fail, but this crew seems determined to give it to see if they can manage it

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  17. Apr 12

    Great stuff. From two of the most exciting young Turkish scholars out there, and

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    Apr 12

    Ilhan Omar is a politician, it’s fine to criticize her or push back against policies forcefully if you disagree with them. The fact that people can’t do this without characterizing her as an alien or even tying her to the 9/11 attacks shows how much deep racism is out there.

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    Apr 12

    Council of Europe body tells Turkey "democratic choices & decisions of the people, who are the sovereign in any COE state, have to be fully respected. Implementation of the will of voters has absolute priority in democratic systems”

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  20. Apr 12

    Thread. (unsurprisingly, but importantly, it's a long one).

    With all the election chaos in Istanbul, the huge obstacles being thrown in front of HDP have fallen a bit under the radar. Not a single of the party's recount requests have been granted. The following incidents are just from the last few hours. …
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