Hakan Topal
@hakantopal.info
Art, Politics, and Other Things in Life 🚴 Artist, Engineer, Sociologist (PhD), and Professor of a few things at SUNY Purchase http://hakantopal.info
It's largely inexcusable that any conscious person is still using twitter. Journalist made twitter, not the other way around. The lack of critical media literacy is why so many journalists don't get this.
Free Osman Kavala!
Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · last mo.Osman Kavala has spent nearly 9 years behind bars unlawfully. Today, @echr.coe.int called his treatment a flagrant denial of justice, deemed his conviction void, & ordered his immediate release for the third time. The @coe.int should ensure Türkiye complies. Free Osman Kavala.
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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The announced "legal framework" between the PKK and the Turkish State is an important milestone, and yet, the current Islamo-fascist authoritarianism won't provide any meaningful democratic opening. A temporary sectarian alliance will bring some relief; that is all.
Read about the trial of Imamoglu who would have been Turkey’s next president but has been behind bars precisely because of that. By @kayagenc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger
The long read: He was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, and had announced his candidacy for the 2029 presidential elections. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is now behind bars, and his trial, on charges including...
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An informative, incisive interview with the brilliant thinker and writer Ece Temelkuran on fascism in the world today and what rebuilding Home means in these troubled times. Check it out.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXQ...
Rebuilding 'Home' in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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A Danish journalist, Rasmus Svaneborg, asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Trump while he talks about taking over Greenland or publicly humiliates Spain. Doesn't it affect your self-respect when you just sit there and say nothing?"
A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress
Abe Silberstein@abesilbe.bsky.social · 3mo agoTwo years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.
This vote would not have passed without the courage, clarity, and solidarity of our incredible Jewish comrades.
Your Friend Michael@michaelpg.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs a Brooklyn Jew who grew up in Rabbi Timoner's congregation, I am thrilled with the vote at the food coop to boycott Israel. It's the *least* that apartheid state deserves.
The Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli goods Yessss!!! 67%–31%, with 2% abstaining. 4,551 pro-boycott 2,083 anti-boycott (6,772 total present)
What is happening in Turkey matters to all of us. Geriatric social democrats refuse to pass power to the next generation and collaborate with Islamists. Sounds too close to home? It is.
T24@t24.com.tr · 4mo ago📢 Ankara'da tarihî görüntüler! 📌 Mahkemenin görevden aldığı CHP Genel Başkanı Özgür Özel TOMA'ya çıktı, vatandaşlar slogan attı 💬 "Kurtuluş yok tek başına, ya hep beraber ya hiçbirimiz!"
The leader of the opposition party in Turkey on TOMA (anti-riot police vehicle).He said "From now on, we are only in the streets.” This is a fight where only one can win! And this is why antagonism cannot be eliminated from democracy. Enemies of democracy aren't our friends or legitimate adversaries
T24@t24.com.tr · 4mo agoÖzgür Özel TOMA'ya çıktı, vatandaşları selamladı t24.com.tr/haber/ozel-c...
Just like Chuck Schumer for the US, KK is a geriatric disease for Turkey.
The so-called “peace process” was invented to split the opposition!
Fréderike Geerdink@fgeerdink.bsky.social · 4mo agoWow. Özgür Özel removed from CHP leadership position, former leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will be temporarily reinstated. What a disaster. Peace process anyone? What a scam.
The current state of Turkey is much much worse than any post coup d’etat era, imho…
Arife Kose@arifekose.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnother dark day for democracy in Turkey:The court ruled to suspend the current leadership of the main opposition party CHP, whose presidential candidate is in jail.The current leadership is to be replaced by the previous leadership of the party, who is to be appointed by the regime. Early election+
A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."
AI Resist List
AI Resist List website
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How liberals monetized trauma: Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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The rampant corporatization and “administrification” of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
"A study by the American Association of University Professors has shown that between 1976 and 2011, non-faculty professional positions, especially in student services and administration, grew by roughly 369%, while full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty grew by only 23%."
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
New in @hyperallergic.com “The Death of the Art School” I write about corporatization, 'administrification', precarity, and repression in the post-Gaza context and why art schools matter as spaces where artistic and political imagination. hyperallergic.com/the-death-of...
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
New in @hyperallergic.com “The Death of the Art School” I write about corporatization, 'administrification', precarity, and repression in the post-Gaza context and why art schools matter as spaces where artistic and political imagination. hyperallergic.com/the-death-of...
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
Hasan Piker is constantly being viciously smeared or abstracted out of his humanity. It's all tiring, unproductive, fake. I visited him, to get below the sensation. We spoke about faith, body image, politics, his controversial comments, and so much more. Inside the Heart and Mind of Hasan Piker:
Inside the Heart and Mind of Hasan Piker
Prem Thakker traveled to LA to go beyond the media outrage and talk directly with the Twitch streamer and prominent leftist about religion, politics, war… and whether he’d go on Tucker Carlson’s show.
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