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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    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 hours ago

    Bu raporda katıldığım bir nokta var: Türkiye medyası yabancı basın kuruluşlarının Türkçe servisleri tarafından domine edilmemeli. Ancak bu durumun sebebi yabancı basın kuruluşları değil anaakım Türkiye medyasının taammüden öldürülmüş olması.

    Rapor: Uluslararası Medya Kuruluşlarının Türkiye Uzantıları Çalışmayı inceleyebilir, PDF sürümünü indirebilirsiniz: …
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  3. 5 hours ago

    Its kind of neat you can see a movie advertised in a 1950s Turkish newspaper and then go watch it on youtube:

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  4. 5 hours ago

    worth reading alongside this very good piece from

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  5. 8 hours ago

    "To the extent Ankara perceives its allies to be intensifying their efforts at containment, Turkey will increase its resistance to that containment. These actions will provoke a further hardening of the containment, creating a dangerous cycle of escalation

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  6. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    Where are the heads of the Upper Midwest swing voters today? listen to our episode w

    On today's Daily: Trump promised to save the auto industry in Lordstown, Ohio. He didn't. But what discovered among the plant's ex-workers is not fury at single president-- but a much deeper alienation from all of politics and government:
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  7. Jul 5

    Time Magazine, 1952, on the Kurdish menace to the Middle East

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  8. Jul 5

    Among other big questions of early Cold War history, why didn't anyone ask FM Koprulu to shave his Hitler mustache when Turkey joined NATO?

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  9. Jul 5

    Some other drink options

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  10. Jul 5

    Huseyin Onur, a law student who lost a leg in the anti-government protests that preceded Turkey's 1960 coup, gets a hospital visit from the head of the country's Mehter team

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  11. Jul 5

    Cliche of the day: "The new Turkey, with windows opening to the east and to the west, is a maze of contrast"

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  12. Jul 5

    Apparently for a brief moment in the early 50s Turkish-Greek rivalry was largely channeled into hairstyling competitions

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  13. Jul 5

    Enjoyed stumbling on back to back articles from the 50s in which the Quran was described (in English) as the "Moslem Bible" and the apse of Notre Dame was described (in Turkish) as the church's "mihrab"

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  14. Jul 4

    See this seems like a legitimate way of politicizing the 4th of July: "During the War of Independence, officials used the anniversary of Congress’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence as an opportunity to bolster anti-British sentiment."

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  15. Jul 4

    Free speech & free cheese. Just two of the many things that make this country great. Happy Fourth of July everyone.

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  16. Jul 4

    Thankfully I'm sure all the people in the palace who feel Turkey has been too tough on America are speaking up now

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  17. Jul 4

    "Now is the time for anyone in Washington who believes that the U.S. has been too tough on Turkey to speak up..." [Long awkward silence]

    Can Trump prevent a train wreck in S-400 rift?
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  18. Jul 3

    "The Turkish leader will test the limits of the United States and the international community as he expresses his reservations with the U.S.-led liberal world order. But there is no evidence that he aims for a total divorce."

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  19. Jul 3

    "According to Erdogan, the new foreign policy, with its elements of military brinkmanship, will raise Turkey’s regional and international profile to a new level"

    My new article
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  20. Jul 3

    Interesting theory:Turkey will avoid US sanctions by having a major economic crisis first

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  21. Jul 3

    "The Trump administration still plans to impose sanctions on Turkey and remove it from a critical fighter jet program if the NATO ally acquires Russian air defenses, U.S. officials told Reuters, despite the Turkish president's assurances to the contrary"

    Despite Turkey's assurances, U.S. still eyes sanctions, F-35 exit by
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