Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 23

    Enigmatically translated Riza Tevfik Bolukbasi might be my new favorite genre of poetry: To the lakes come down thirsty gazelles Doves wing their way from distant dells From cheerless tombs ceaseless hummings ensue Pigeons coo in those wrecks in rue

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  2. 46 minutes ago

    Both impressive and ominous...

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    I predicted in 2018: Erdogan wins 52,5% Ince 30.5% (screenshot available) In 2019: Imamoglu wins, gets his mazbata, gets it revoked, wins with a bigger marge, gets revoked again due to criminal charges (screenshot available…
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  3. 1 hour ago

    Okay, anyone who can document they correctly predicted at least three of the following - Ince loses, Imamoglu wins, elections rerun, imamoglu wins again - is this round's pundit wars: election edition winner and gets to tell us all what happens next.

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  4. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    Too good to be true..!

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  5. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    Bye-bye one-man rule, bye-bye authoritarianism, bye-bye cronyism, bye-bye abuse of power welcome torule of law, checks&balances etc INSALLAH

    İmamoğlu has won ’s mayoral re-run. He has hailed his victory as a “new beginning” and a victory for all in . Above all, it’s a victory for Turkish .…
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  6. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    A historic moment for Turkey. – at Şişli

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Hot take: whatever happens next, this is a positive sign for Turkish democracy

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  8. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    's new mayor , with his deep commitment to liberal values, has emerged as the anti-Erdogan: the Istanbulite with an appreciation for the city’s ethos of diversity and dissent.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Seriously though if you're not mentioning Erdogan's decision to watch the elections from the mansion of the last Ottoman Sultan you're not doing this right:

    🗳️ AKP chair and President Erdoğan will follow the June 23 Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) election results from Vahdettin Mansion.
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  10. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Mayor İmamoğlu giving a speech. I'm so going to live translate tweet this :)

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  11. 18 hours ago

    hmmm, I guess this was too obscure, but its still probably the best election take im gonna come up with

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  12. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Yildirim speaking: Imamoglu is ahead of me, I congratulate him.

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  13. 18 hours ago

    Anyone seen the HMS Malaya?

    🗳️ AKP chair and President Erdoğan will follow the June 23 Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) election results from Vahdettin Mansion.
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  14. 21 hours ago

    Food trucks of Anatolia, continued

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  15. 23 hours ago

    Also worth checking out the debate over Britains Best Battle

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  16. 23 hours ago

    A fun piece from about a battle we should remember as a symbol of why we forgot it:

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  17. Jun 23

    Maybe just fast asleep, which also seems like a fair reaction

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  18. Jun 23

    Not sure why you'd feature either of these two guys, but I like that even the bookstore cat seems to be wincing at the choice

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  19. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    With one day to go before the rerun of Istanbul's mayoral race, I can't resist reposting this account of Turkey's first free elections from 1950

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Anyone who claims to know with certainty what awaits us on d-day after mayoral re-elections in Istanbul, either has a crystal ball, or is simply lying.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    27 Mayıs’ın arkasında Menderes’in SSCB’ye yapacağı ziyaret vardı ve Menderes Batı ittifakından çıkmayı düşünüyordu tezini çürüten 2 Mayıs 1960 tarihli CIA raporu. Menderes’in dış politikasını düşününce bu tez bana hiçbir zaman inandırıcı gelmemişti

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