Journalist/writer, formerly in Istanbul, now Norfolk. ‘To the City’ (William Collins/Pegasus). All posts have grammar/spelling errors. Retweets usually = endorsements. Opinions not my own unless stated otherwise, and even then probably still not my own.
Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Independent human rights expert working on global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia. Ex-Freedom House, SPLC.
https://tcf.org/content/report/centurys-new-democracy-meter-shows-america-took-an-authoritarian-turn-in-2025/
Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
İstanbul via London, Cambridge, Bristol & Göreme. Author: Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell & assorted guidebooks. Cat lover. Painted trafo fan.
Freelance journalist based in İstanbul, editor-at-barge
@turkeyrecap | overlok makinesi g.tokyol@gmail.com
Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
https://turkeybooktalk.com
https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/
Radio journalist @ BBC News/BBC Sounds. Formerly: Sky News, Euronews, Jewish News, TRT | 🇹🇷🇬🇧 | DMs open, all views mine, Türkçemiz de var az çok.
