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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 4d

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 4d

Şimdi tüm kitapçılarda…

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.

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Skilliter Centre @skillitercentre.bsky.social · Aug 6

We held a conference on The Ottomans and Diplomacy @newnhamcollege.bsky.social 10-12 July 2025, including 26 papers from historians from France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK and the US. The full programme is on our website.

Photos by Dasha Tenditna

Two historians wearing lanyards and holding plates and glasses

Two historians looking at programmes for the Skilliter Centre conference

Two historians talking in Newnham College garden, with others in the background

Skilliter Centre programme, notebook and folder laid out on a table

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · May 10

Unbelievable! Very sorry to hear it Lisel. I'm sure you'll land somewhere that deserves your devotion to teaching and writing.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Apr 7

www.tustav.org/2025/04/01/l...

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Jan 6

Istanbul’s Orthodox community marks the birth and baptism of Jesus of Nazareth. 2025 epiphany ceremony held by the Fener Greek Patriarchate on the cold waters of the Golden Horn. 🎄 ⛪️ 🎉

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Dec 23

2025 will be the 1700th anniversary of the First Nicene Council. Pretty little Anatolian town for history fans and tile lovers. #nicenecreed #iznik

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Dec 17

I contributed to an edited collection on the Black Sea based on an excellent conference we held in Wien back in 2020. @univie.ac.at To read my chapter (Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 – 91) see the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social link below. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 –91

Mare Clausum: War and Diplomacy on the Black Sea, 1939 –91 was published in Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region on page 165.

www.degruyter.com

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Dec 16

my students like Fouad Ajami's The Arab Predicament

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 28

Rough times will pass. Happy thanksgiving, so long, and thanks for all the turkey 🦃

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 26

www.yirmidort.tv/gundem/baede... This is still Ethem Sancak’s TV channel no? @heissenstat.bsky.social Used to make ferry rides in Istanbul a truly Orwellian experience 🧐

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · Nov 26

This statement, from the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirms that Turkey cooperated w/ the UAE in arresting & extraditing the 3 Uzbeks who killed Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE.

The attackers may have thought they’d be safe in Turkey. But their extradition reflects strengthened UAE-Turkey ties.

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · Nov 26

Adam Hanieh's "Laundering Carbon" exposed the hollow politics behind fossil-centered states' excitement on the carbon trading market, which are amounting to a string of land grabs in Africa with terrible results for indigenous communities.

Laundering Carbon—The Gulf’s ‘New Scramble for Africa’ - MERIP

Carbon offsets are changing the relationship between the Middle East and the African continent.

buff.ly

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 24

Last day of the conference in Boston @aseees.bsky.social. If you’re still around, come join our roundtable at Simmons (3rd floor - 12:00pm-1:45pm). Michaela Papa, Anton Fedyashin, Pedram Partovi, Zhen Han and I will be discussing how BRICS fits in the new multi-polar international order.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 23

My first time at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA. Gorgeous building, great library but I’m a bit underwhelmed by the museum itself tbh. You can spare about 90 minutes for the whole tour, including 2 short movies that last for about 30 minutes.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 18

Looking forward to our panel with Serhii Plokhii, Mark Steinberg, Frank Sysyn and Susan Smith-Peter at the @aseees.bsky.social 56th Convention in Boston this weekend. We'll discuss how textbooks in English have presented Russian and Ukranian historical narratives and how those have at times clashed.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 20

tru dat! please read our "Q1 SSCI research output"

Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 20

My latest article (with @samueljhirst.bsky.social) ‘Let the Black Sea Unite Us’: the 1967 Soviet-Turkish industrial agreement and Ankara’s cold war rapprochement with Moscow. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Let the black sea unite Us’: the 1967 Soviet-Turkish industrial agreement and Ankara’s cold war rapprochement with Moscow

This article explores a turning point in Soviet-Turkish relations during the Cold War: the 1967 interstate agreement that enabled construction of the backbone of Turkey’s post-war state-owned indus...

www.tandfonline.com

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 20

Annual pilgrimage to Martin’s for Richard Stites - the best advisor and a great human being

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 18

Looking forward to our panel with Serhii Plokhii, Mark Steinberg, Frank Sysyn and Susan Smith-Peter at the @aseees.bsky.social 56th Convention in Boston this weekend. We'll discuss how textbooks in English have presented Russian and Ukranian historical narratives and how those have at times clashed.

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · Nov 9

Cold War Historians...not at all thorough or complete so pleae make suggestions or ask to be added!

go.bsky.app/NAWTQUp

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Nov 7

I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out!

go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Nov 18

thanks for this list. could I join please?

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