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Howard Eissenstat
@heissenstat
Mostly Turkey Assoc. Professor, MENA History @StLawrenceU Non-resident scholar, @MiddleEastInst Unlikely to argue Blocks stupid, racist, and noisy.
Jun 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Turkey's program of #TransnationRepression and extrajudicial rendition is far more extensive than any other country's. It continues apace. Social media reports suggest that Orhan Inandi is currently being held at the Turkish embassy in Bishkek

eurasianet.org/kyrgyzstan-tur… His supporters fear that he is being coerced into renouncing his Kirghiz citizenship, to make it easier to repatriate him to Turkey.
Jul 1, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Will #HagiaSophia #Ayasofya become a mosque? This is about the fortieth time this has been discussed since I joined twitter, but...

I'm starting to think they may do it this time around....

A short thread on why. 1. The inevitable cries of protest from abroad will lose some of their sting in light of the coronavirus crisis. Turkey's cultural tourism trade is already shot for at least a year. A boycott by a handful of countries is not going to make it significantly worse.