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Ayhan Kaya

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CATS fellow at SWP-Berlin, Professor of Politics at Istanbul Bilgi University, Member of the British Academy, Member of Science Academy-Turkey, Jean Monnet Chair, ERC Grant Holder, Visiting Prof. at Humboldt University. governmentality, migration, populism

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Soon coming out⌛️⌛️⌛️ link.springer.com/book/9783032...

16.02.2026 17:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My blog posts on youth radicalisation in Europe available at @pledge-project.bsky.social website☕️

04.03.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📘 PLEDGE Policy Brief #2 is out
Emotions are shaping democratic trust in times of polycrisis.

🔗 Read the Policy Brief:
mailchi.mp/d89cbd495989...

#PLEDGEproject #PolicyBrief #DemocraticGovernance #Research #GrievancePolitics #EU

06.02.2026 10:09 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Short videos are reshaping political exposure in Europe.

Our new study on the #EuropeanElections2024 shows how algorithmic feeds structure visibility, grievances & political content across ideological pathways.

Algorithms → emotional content → democratic resilience

🔗 bitly.cx/0mLs

#PLEDGE #eu

04.03.2026 12:36 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I am happy to see that my open access peer-reviewed article is nicely summarised by my colleagues @pledge-project.bsky.social please visit the journal below for free access to read more on how the feeling of ressentiment is instrumentalised as a form of governmentality☕️

04.03.2026 13:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#5 From Grievance to Radicalisation: Grievance and Its Emotional Tipping Points into Extremism – Pledge

I have written a short piece for Pledge Project (Horizon Europe) on grievance and radicalisation: www.pledgeproject.eu/5-from-griev...

20.02.2026 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Emotions are not side effects of politics. They shape it.
In #4 of the Grievance Politics Briefings🤝, we explore how humiliation, frustration and powerless anger redefine how citizens relate to democracy.

- Read more: www.pledgeproject.eu/4-emotion-se...

#PLEDGE #GrievancePolitics #Democracy

19.02.2026 11:18 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Soon coming out⌛️⌛️⌛️ link.springer.com/book/9783032...

16.02.2026 17:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 The 18th edition of the European Institute Newsletter is out now. A year full of actifities is now over.

Explore our research projects, academic programmes, and recent activities.
Istanbul Bilgi University
ValEUs
@pledge-project.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/4qMPqwc

10.01.2026 07:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Politics stops solving problems. Then it starts blaming people.

In our new clip, Dr. Gabriella Szabo unpacks how blame and emotional manipulation fuel grievance politics and polarisation.

👉 Watch and reflect: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOOK...

09.01.2026 14:32 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Tebliğ Çağrısı

Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimlerde Eleştirel Yapay Zekâ Çalışmaları

🗓 9 Mayıs 2026
📍 Santralistanbul
🎓 Lisans (4. sınıf), Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora öğrencilerine açık
📝 Bildiri özeti son teslim: 13 Mart 2026
📧 europe@bilgi.edu.tr
🔗 bit.ly/49zESKR

03.01.2026 08:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ten years of scientific work is coming to an end. I submitted my monograph to Routledge. It is now in the production stage. This was a long journey which went along with my ERC Advanced Grant research on youth radicalism in Europe.

23.12.2025 08:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BAGEP 2026 başvuruları açıldı! - Bilim Akademisi Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 Son başvuru: 23 Ocak 2026 – 18.00 BAGEP yönergesi ve protokolünü buradan, BAGEP Etik Beyanı’nı buradan görebilirsiniz. Bilim Akademisi t...

Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 başvuruları açıldı!
Son gün 23 Ocak 2026.

Detaylar ve başvuru formu bağlantıda.
bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-b...

16.12.2025 10:16 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

Please help us disseminate this free MOOC Course on the values in foreign policy making. ValEUs Project

29.11.2025 15:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We wrote this chapter together with dear Nermin Aydemir: Migration and Diaspora. We discussed the state of conflict-induced emigration in Turkey over the years. Thanks to the editors, Mesut Uyar and Edward J. Erickson.

04.11.2025 10:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book conversation: ‘Migrant transnationalism' – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) What is the value of a transnational lens to understand the world at present? Join this webinar 28 Oct (14-15 CET) for a conversation on the IMISCOE Sh ...

🗣️BOOK CONVERSATION

💻Join this webinar for a conversation on the IMISCOE Short Reader on “Migrant Transnationalism”.
📅28 Oct 2025, 14-15 (CET)
🤝Co-organized by: @PRIOMigrationCentre, @PRIO, ERCOMER, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, @mitra-sc.bsky.social, and IMISCOE.
🔗More info: prio.org/events/9249

06.10.2025 10:25 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Free Open Online Course
“Values in EU Foreign Policy”
Https://mooc.valeus.eu
Please help us disseminate to everyone interested. MOOC invludes 13 topics, short topical videos by distinguished speakers, ppt presentations, assessments, and Certificate of Participation assigned on your name👇Jean Monnet

17.05.2025 16:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Palestinians displaced to southern Gaza begin journey home as ceasefire comes into effect

11.10.2025 07:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is the 'Remigration and Reconquest' committee a turning point for Italy's extreme right? On 6 September 2025, the Italian extreme right sealed a new pact. At a national congress, CasaPound Italia, Patriots’ Network (a Forza Nuova splinter), Veneto Skinhead Front, and Brescia to Bresciani ...

🤝 On 6 September, Italian #ExtremeRight parties sealed a new pact and launched a committee they call 'Remigration and Reconquest'.
↪️ Federico Taddei argues its launch could mark a turning point in #Italy’s extreme-right galaxy.
👉 bit.ly/4938fp0

10.10.2025 08:22 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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VALEUS Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - VALEUS The ValEUs network is glad to present the ValEUs Massive Open Online Course!  This online course will teach you about the values underlying EU foreign policy and current contestations of these values....

Free MOOC Course on Values in European Foreign Policy Making. Please help us disseminate this wonderful course to those interested. There is also a Certificate to receive after completion. valeus.eu/news/valeus-...

31.08.2025 08:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We must work with Libyans to stop Putin weaponizing migrants, top EU official says EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner tells POLITICO he’s ready to negotiate with Khalifa Haftar, who kicked him out of Benghazi earlier this month.

The EU must remain ready to negotiate with Russia-aligned Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar to prevent Vladimir Putin from further weaponizing migration, the bloc's migration chief Magnus Brunner told POLITICO.

22.07.2025 07:26 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3
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Ressentiment, Mağduriyet ve Rövanşizm Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, siyasi yörüngesi boyunca bir dizi duyguyu ustalıkla somutlaştırmış ve harekete geçirmiştir. Başlangıçta güçlü tarihsel imalarla zenginleştirilmiş bir mağduriyet anlatısı kullanan...

@pledge-project.bsky.social çerçevesinde ressentiment duygusu (bastirilmis kindarlik ve öç alma) üzerinden Türkiye siyaseti üzerine bir deneme yazisi. www.yeniarayis.com/yazi/ressent...

25.05.2025 10:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Ressentiment, Mağduriyet ve Rövanşizm Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, siyasi yörüngesi boyunca bir dizi duyguyu ustalıkla somutlaştırmış ve harekete geçirmiştir. Başlangıçta güçlü tarihsel imalarla zenginleştirilmiş bir mağduriyet anlatısı kullanan...

@pledge-project.bsky.social çerçevesinde ressentiment duygusu (bastirilmis kindarlik ve öç alma) üzerinden Türkiye siyaseti üzerine bir deneme yazisi. www.yeniarayis.com/yazi/ressent...

25.05.2025 10:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Free Open Online Course
“Values in EU Foreign Policy”
Https://mooc.valeus.eu
Please help us disseminate to everyone interested. MOOC invludes 13 topics, short topical videos by distinguished speakers, ppt presentations, assessments, and Certificate of Participation assigned on your name👇Jean Monnet

17.05.2025 16:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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JUST OUT! PLEASE HELP US DISSEMINATE THIS MOOC COURSE… ValEUs Project has prepared a free-access MOOC Course on Values in European Union Foreign Policy. Please help us disseminate it. 13 topics, short videos, PPTs, readings, assessment,and CERTIFICATE. @ec.europa.eu Https://mooc.valeus.eu

11.05.2025 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#HappyEuropeDay On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman put forward a bold idea: unite Europe by pooling coal and steel production to make war ‘not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.’

09.05.2025 06:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Policy Releases – Pledge

AN EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT ‘EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY SHIELD’: we respond to Ursula von der Leyen’s call for the European Democracy Shield by leveraging extensive interdisciplinary, unbiased, evidenced research on grievance politics. www.pledgeproject.eu/category/pub... please help us disseminate🙏

06.05.2025 11:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The instrumentalisation of migration in the populist era | Mixed Migration Centre The instrumentalisation of migration in the populist era. The following essay was originally compiled for the Mixed Migration Review 2024 “Migration […]

"Even when the economic realities suggest increased migration is a significant opportunity, if not a necessity, the scapegoating argument requiring reduced migration normally wins."   @profayhankaya.bsky.social  on right-wing populism &  anti-migration narratives in #MMR2024

05.05.2025 10:31 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

"Not only are migrants used as scapegoats, but it may be entirely in the interests of populist parties – when in gov or close to power – to actively obstruct reforms or instigate new policies which exacerbate a sense of crisis around immigration & asylum." @profayhankaya.bsky.social  #MMR2024

05.05.2025 08:51 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The instrumentalisation of migration in the populist era | Mixed Migration Centre The instrumentalisation of migration in the populist era. The following essay was originally compiled for the Mixed Migration Review 2024 “Migration […]

@profayhankaya.bsky.social  from Bilgi Istanbul University, looks at the surge of right-wing populism and its strategic use of anti-migration narratives in his contribution to Mixed Migration Review 2024  #MMR2024:

05.05.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0