Sitemap - 2025 - Kültürkampf

On regime change; the PKK's bonfire; the Directorate of Communications

On the success of Turkish foreign policy

Gaziantep fragments

The hostile takeover of the Turkish opposition; the economy and the rule of law; the LGBTQ+ movement in Turkey; a documentary

On my time in Gaziantep; Trump's misadventures; the latest Turkish journalist to be arrested; NYC's Democratic Primary

Debating War and Peace

The shock of the Israel-Iran war

On Turkey's reaction to the Israel-Iran war; the origins of Islam; the Musk-Trump relationship; bad 2000s historical fiction

Turkish boys can't play backgammon any more

The language of New Turkey vol. 4

On Kılıçdaroğlu’s possible comeback, and economic loosening

The enduring power of Turkey's ballot box

Remembering Sırrı Süreyya; comments on my book; Sam Bankman-Fried and crypto in Turkey; the crackdown on İstanbul; Turkish TV psychology

The PKK's dissolves itself

The mood at the end of liberalism

Live with Turkey recap

Watching American decline

Seismologist soothsayers; Syria's Economy; Refik Halid returning from exile; Islamist gradualism

Our brush with disaster

Turkey-Israel relations

Assistant wanted, the protests in Turkey, reading on religion, millenarian fascism, Turkish daytime TV

The Turkish internet, repression economics, Elon Musk, the jail effect, Turkey vs. Israel, Mahir Polat

Fresh from Silivri prison: Osman Ertürk Özel

God doesn't have a stick

TURKEY: Discussing the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and the ongoing protests

LIVE WEBCAST, notes on the protests

Turkey Resists

The Day of the Donkeys

Syria's investigations, "great men," the Turkish attention sphere

Fukuyama vs. Huntington: looking at our world from the 1990s

The PKK lays down arms

Why Turkey probably won't join the EU

How Turks deal with wokeness, Mo, Obama's political machine, and Ayn Rand

The Imperial Executive: a lesson from Turkey, with Burak Bilgehan Özpek

My Hometown in a Cycle of Death and Rebirth

Notebook #15: the Bolu fire, the TV industry, Fidan on Greece

Notebook #14: Israel-Turkey-Syria, and why Ahmet Kaya went to jail

The end of history and the last Turk

New Book, wealth inequality, Alevis, Islamist psychologists, and more

Civilizational politics and morality

2024 in review, 2025 ahead