Howard Eissenstat

@heissenstat

Mostly Turkey. Occasionally less informed opinions on US politics and Australian Shepherds and .

Canton, NY
Joined March 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    17 hours ago

    A little known fact of Turkish politics is that proficiency in billiards is a longstanding requirement for the Presidency.

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  2. 32 minutes ago

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    1) Unless something dramatic happens, we are getting close to S400 delivery. I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion among many folks about CAATSA and what happens when if the Turks take delivery of the air defense system. Here is the process:
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  3. 32 minutes ago

    SETA moved from being pro-AKP, but capable of serious research to a hack-shop for AKP propaganda. That has costs.

    Replying to @heissenstat
    I no longer participate in panels. Have declined two invitations. Politely. But it is no longer possible to take part in its work. Too bad. The staff in DC is smart and well informed.
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    39 minutes ago

    The thesis advisor who supervised the plagiarised master's thesis of the new governor of the Turkish Central Bank is herself in charge of the Istanbul Stock Exchange

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    Not only varlık fonu. She is CEO of borsa İstanbul a.ş.
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  5. 47 minutes ago

    In general, I think most Turkey-specialists would stay away by default. Others, less familiar with the territory, may not know better. This is their opportunity to see just what kind of organization SETA has become.

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  6. 48 minutes ago

    If nothing else, the widespread condemnation of 's "report" targeting foreign journalists is a welcome opportunity to highlight to those invited to speak on SETA panels that they are being used as window-dressing for a fundamentally dishonest AKP-run apology shop.

    İstanbul Barosu ve TGS’den SETA hakkında suç duyurusu: İstanbul Barosu ve TGS, SETA’nın Uluslararası Medya Kuruluşlarının Türkiye Uzantıları başlığıyla yayınladığı…
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  7. 1 hour ago

    With so many crises, short-term instability in is an easy call. How and his multiple oppositions respond is less clear. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, 's choices are unpalatable.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    The punchline for short - and important - thread.

    The actual declaration isn't available for the public to see anywhere and tells me they don't know if it ever will be. Has, for example, Britain just committed to deporting Gülenists or YPG members? The UK doesn't consider them terrorists, but Turkey certainly does.
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    3 hours ago

    “ must take urgent and necessary measures to re-establish trust in its judiciary & repair the damage inflicted on the rule of law during the state of emergency and its aftermath” says . She visited during her visit to

    needs to put an end to arbitrariness in the judiciary and to protect
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    5 hours ago

    Excellent thread exposing the fact that Turkey's new central bank governor plagiarized his master's thesis. It's literally a cut-and-paste job. The subject? Inflation. You can't make this stuff up.

    Turkey has a controversial new Central Bank Governor, Murat Uysal. He’s about to get a lot more controversial. His entire…
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    3 hours ago

    Great challenge and another clear sign of decline for ’s ruling AKP after the elections: founding member Ali Babacan, former deputy min & ex-FM, announced his resignation and declared he’s setting up a new party, saying it has become “unavoidable”

    Son Dakika | Ali Babacan hakkında flaş gelişme… İstifa etti!
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  12. 3 hours ago

    Uysal's plagiarized thesis is not merely a new embarrassment for the Erdogan team, it's emblematic of how basic competence has been shunted to the side The government lurches from error to error and crisis to crisis with no motor besides RTE's own prejudices and assumptions

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    Jul 6

    The final fig leaf removed: literally making the July 2016 coup into a brand. Vulgar stuff.

    Bu kapsamda 15 Temmuz ile ilgili gerçekleştirilecek proje ve etkinliklerde kullanılmak üzere yeni logo ve kurumsal kimlik rehberi çalışmaları tamamlandı.…
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    Jul 6

    When I was a kid, a 7.1 earthquake in California would have been a massive humanitarian disaster. The fact that it's mostly just jokes on Twitter is a testament to why we have building codes that learn from past natural disasters.

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  15. 17 hours ago

    Photo h/t and

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    20 hours ago

    I strongly oppose Quebec's secularism law and the worldwide ridicule its education minister is getting is well-deserved. But Quebec-Taliban comparisons are over the top (and insulting to Taliban victims). Tone it down, and compare Quebec with France.

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    Jul 6

    2019 in America: a school principal wouldn’t provide Holocaust education because, he claims, it is a “belief” and he must be “politically neutral.” “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event...”

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  18. 22 hours ago

    I feel like the SETA report targetting journalists has somehow generated more outrage this weekend than the actual prosecution and detention of journalists

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    Jul 6

    This seems to sum up the stupid moral and civic blindness of "religious symbol" bans.

    Quebec education minister says Malala can teach here if she removes headscarf
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