"Benim çocukluğumun geçtiği Abdülhamit devrinde cemiyetimiz neşesizdi. Başta padişahın asık yüzünden gelen ve halka halka etrafa yayılan bu neşesizlik eşyaya da sirayet etmişti." Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

Shame on you for instrumentalizing an autocrat's self-coup to make a point, Yanis Varoufakis. Millions are fighting against brutal state violence and a regime where one man controls the media, judiciary, and law enforcement. We are not your rhetorical toy!

Kemal lucidly debunks Varoufakis' nonsensical comparison.

Varoufakis is obviously not a tankie. So, what explains his failure to grasp the difference between the authoritarian tendencies of liberal states and a full-blown autocracy seems to be a weird combination of narcissistic overconfidence and Eurocentricism.

Turkish opposition leader Özel criticises Starmer for silence over İmamoğlu’s arrest, says they will block Labour’s readmission to Socialist International

Before you compare Le Pen’s political ban to İmamoğlu’s arrest, consider this: in Turkey, pro-Erdogan journalists go on live TV to announce tomorrow’s interrogation list—before the summons are even issued. That’s the kind of “rule of law” we’re talking about.

Dutch colleagues, please take note

We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025

Today we concluded the ERC project "The Business Corporation as a Political Actor" with its final conference. End of an era!

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nden mezun olan bir öğrenci, diploma dağıtım töreninde diplomasını yırttı: "Müstakbel cumhurbaşkanının diplomasını iptal eden, kafasın göre fakülte açan, kapayan, bölen bu istibdat rejiminin bana vermiş olduğu diploma hükümsüzdür." Video: boğaziçi hakkında

Öğrencimiz Doruk Dörücü'nün suçu ne? Diploma yırtmak mı suç? Yoksa bu ülkede diplomaların 20 yıl sonra verdiği diplomaya sahip çıkamayacak kadar özerkliklerini yitirmiş üniversiteler tarafından iptal edildiğini söylemek mi? Bunlar suçsa burası istibdat rejimi değil de nedir?

My latest paper is now available in Political Communication. I use big media data to study an information management strategy, which I refer to as reference point adjustment, employed by pro-government media during an economic crisis. Full paper is here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students: Maintain your friendships with people who aren't academics

Having already killed or wounded 200,000 Palestinians, the extremist Israeli government is using mass starvation to engineer the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Despite these crimes, the US has provided $22 billion to Israeli military operations since the war began. Enough is enough.

Sözleşmemin "gerekçesiz" yenilenmediğini duyurmuştum.21 Ağustos günü bu işleme karşı dava açtık.8 gün sonra, aşağıdaki yazıyla kampüse girişim yasaklandı. Anayasa tarafından korunan protesto hakkımı kullanmaktan onur duyuyorum. Bu ülkeye, kamuya karşı görevimi yerine getirdim.1/4

Very happy to share that my review essay: "Habermas's Genealogy of Rational Freedom — Vindicating Postmetaphysical Thought in Dialogue with Judeo-Christian Faith?" is now out! It took me more than a year to read the three volumes! :)

Parayla diploma skandalı, Türkiye'de merkezi sınav sistemi kalkarsa yasallaşacak sistemin kara borsa hali. Regüle edilen yasal hali, kara borsa halinden iyi olur elbette ama aynı temel prensibe dayanır. Anlatayım. +++