law & diplomacy - Current @BilkentIRDept, former @MFATurkiye // Columnist @TurkeyinDepth // IG: @evliyacan & @counterdictionary // RT ≠ endorsement
Ankara, Türkiye
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Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
Tarihte ilk kez Kanada Başbakanı Ankara'ya resmi bir ziyaret yapacak.
Dışişleri'nin erken kayıplarından Can Öztaş'ın @shehbender Kanada ile ilgili şu iki olağanüstü şiirsel taşlamasını kaçırmayın.
Kanada'nın "ilkeli pragmatizmi"
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Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
@shehbender Can Öztaş’ın bu şiirsel Kanada taşlamasını sakın kaçırmayın👇
Missed last week’s Turkey in Depth? Three free reads to start your Monday:
⚖️ @barcinyinanc: Ankara’s case in Brussels
🍁 @shehbender: Mark Carney’s Oct. 21–23 visit
📺 Portrait of the Week: Halk TV
The rest is for subscribers: t.ly/cFbk9
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
A slow Sunday, three considered reads:
Why Ankara says the EU must keep its word, by @barcinyinanc ⚖️
What Mark Carney’s first-of-its-kind visit tells us about middle powers, by @shehbender 🌫️
What Halk TV’s seizure means for the people inside it, in our Portrait of the Week 📺
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"Greece and Turkey cannot agree where the sea ends, but have agreed on who should lend them the money to defend it." Read further?
Below is my latest piece as Carney makes the first bilateral visit to Türkiye by a Canadian PM.
Mark Carney is set to become the first Canadian prime minister to pay a bilateral visit to Turkey. Not long ago, Ottawa was cancelling defense export permits to Ankara.
@shehbender on what changed and what still holds 🌫️
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My piece for Prof. Kuçuradi.
In 1994, Turkey asked philosopher İoanna Kuçuradi to chair its human rights council. The foreign ministry gave her assignments but never told her what to say.
@shehbender on a scholar whose authority didn’t depend on office:
turkeyindepth.com/article/12…
#HumanRights
My new piece on Prof. Kuçuradi
Your Sunday reads from Turkey in Depth, free to read:
🌍 @barcinyinanc on the one word that could derail COP31
🏛 Portrait of the Week: Izmir’s mayor and a promise about his wife
📚 @shehbender on philosopher İoanna Kuçuradi
turkeyindepth.com
For most of the twentieth century, “Made in” offered a reasonably simple answer about where something came from. Today the battery may be Chinese, the factory Turkish and the customer German. See below to read further…
China would invest. Turkey would manufacture. Europe would buy.
An elegant formula. Perhaps a little too elegant.
@shehbender on "Made in Türkiye" ⚙️
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Yeri doldurulamayacak bir değerimizi kaybettik… eserleri ve fikirleriyle yaşayacak değerli hocamız
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By @duyguguvenc @tugrul_c @barcinyinanc @shehbender @nergisdemirkaya @hakanokcal @ckfirat @NazlanEr Murat Gürgen @Paul_Osterlund
My new piece inspired by Nasreddin Hoca… 👇
🇹🇷 More than a week after two Turkish ambassadors were accused of betraying national values for following host-country protocol, Ankara has said nothing in their defense. "Silence, here, is not neutrality," writes @shehbender. Full context here t.ly/cFbk9
What is the Critical Legal Conference?
A great commentary by Gilbert Leung
youtu.be/sgKCLr6oop8?si=lG26… via @YouTube
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
Wars watched almost in real time, translation in seconds, and the world is hardly easier to understand. A slow read on the diplomat Turkey will need. ☕
@shehbender in The Third Desk:
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My last piece 👇 Turkish diplomats should be able to interpret, recommend, warn and sometimes tell the capital what it would rather not want to hear…
AI may make translation effortless and diplomatic archives almost bottomless. But does that make diplomacy easier?
From Ukraine and Gaza to Syria, Iran and the Caucasus, information is abundant while certainty remains scarce.
@shehbender on why judgement becomes more valuable, not less.
t.ly/cFbk9
My latest piece 👇
🇬🇷 NATO member.
🇹🇷 NATO member.
🇮🇱 US strategic partner.
🇸🇦 US partner.
🇵🇰 US partner.
And they are building security arrangements partly to protect themselves from each other. @shehbender captures the absurd logic of Eastern Mediterranean security. t.ly/cFbk9
Turkish politics knows no holiday, but here is my holiday edition. My new piece asks a simple question: when we leave our cities behind, do we leave our politics behind too?
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“First come those willing to live without comfort. Then come those who admire them. Finally come those who remove them.”
From Alaçatı to Kaş and Bozcaada, @shehbender traces a familiar cycle in Turkey’s holiday geography.
t.ly/cFbk9
My recent piece 👇
Every fire leaves two landscapes behind: blackened earth, and a political battle over what gets built on it next.
@shehbender on wildfires, trust, and why Turkey's COP31 hosting could matter far beyond the Mediterranean.
🔥 turkeyindepth.com/article/11…
What will govern Europe’s approach: human rights law or criminal law?
The ECtHR recognised restitution, exchange & compensation as a remedy for property claims. European Arrest Warrants offer: prosecution & punishment.
Only one leaves room for peace.
My new piece on Cyprus👇
Can one side change the parameters of a Cyprus settlement before negotiations even begin? @shehbender examines how criminal prosecutions over property could take one of the central bargaining elements of any future deal out of the negotiating room. t.ly/cFbk9
My essay “The Discipline of Unease: A Conversation with Costas Douzinas” is now out in Critical Legal Thinking.
It reflects on critique as a practice of unease, and on the fragile margin through which that unease may still make law hesitate before power.
criticallegalthinking.com/
It was a privilege to be part of the conference celebrating Costas Douzinas: teacher, mentor, critic, friend. To speak among friends and colleagues about rights, resistance, critique was deeply moving. I leave grateful, honoured and still uneasy. @BirkbeckLaw
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
History rarely arrives announcing itself. It enters homes, changes routines and leaves its mark on children. Drawing inspiration from Marjane Satrapi, @shehbender reflects on the stories Turkey has yet to tell about itself. turkeyindepth.com 👉 t.ly/cFbk9
