Bilge Yesil
@bilgeyesil
Professor. Author of Talking Back to the West. ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Excited about this forthcoming chapter I wrote for the Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders
Academic flees Turkey abt a decade ago (bc of political pressures), settles down in New School, and now advocates the firings of his colleagues www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
As if I didn’t receive enough fake book club emails, now it’s text messages 😡
Whenever I place an order, I tell them my name is Billy just bc I don’t wanna spell Bilge three times. Anyway, over the years I’ve seen Billy turn into Milly and Lilly but this is a first 🤣
No one does commemorations better than Turkey😉253 taxis honoring the 253 ppl who died on July 15, 2016 the night of the failed coup.
Remember the political prisoners languishing in jails and millions of ppl crushed under economic crisis as you watch NATO leaders receiving a grand Ottoman greeting at Erdogan’s 1000-room palace
#ICA26 conference theme is “Communucation and inequalities in context.” Yes, indeed 👇
Leader of the main opposition party, Ozgur Ozel, walking in the rain to the parliament after he was forced to leave the party HQs by Erdogan’s goons
I know everything is sh.t right now but at least we have books! Here’s one that I had the opportunity to blurb, and it’s genuinely a great addition to the literature on propaganda, diplomacy and Cold War cultural politics. @julideetem.bsky.social
Weapons used in “faraway lands” now used in American cities! What a surprise 🤦🏻♀️
I was looking for smth I wrote about privacy way back in 2009, then I saw this 😂
I had the pleasure of hosting @kevinsmets.bsky.social and Irene Gutierrez-Torres today at CSI CUNY. Check out their amazing project reelborders.eu
Turkish Twitter is abuzz with Mamdani’s tweet from 2013 Gezi protests 🤣
This is what we are talking about when we say Erdogan is blocking the roads so people can’t go to oppo party HQ. This is one of the major arteries in central Istanbul, a city of 18 million.
As Erdogan tries to capture the main oppo party, people start walking to party HQ in Istanbul. Btw, it’s 11.30 pm and roads are blocked ( via Halk TV)