Ihsan Yilmaz
@ihsanylmz.bsky.social
Research Professor at Melbourne Deakin Uni. Religion and Politics; Digital Politics; Emotions; Populism; Authoritarianism; Transnationalism.
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Ihsan Yilmaz
@ihsanylmz.bsky.social
· Mar 30
HDR Scholarship - Sharp power effectiveness
PhD Scholarship to research The Effectiveness of Authoritarian Sharp Power Online in Influencing Diaspora Groups
www.deakin.edu.au
Can you please circulate?
PhD Scholarship:
The Effectiveness of Authoritarian Sharp Power Online in Influencing Diaspora Groups
www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
PhD Scholarship:
The Effectiveness of Authoritarian Sharp Power Online in Influencing Diaspora Groups
www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
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Finnish border guard boarded a Turkish-owned vessel suspected of breaking yet another comms cable in the Gulf of Finland. About time, Turkey takes Russian aggression against Nato allies seriously
www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
HS Kirkkonummella | HS seurasi, kun kaapelirikosta epäilty Fitburg saapui satamaan aseistautuneiden viranomaisten valvonnassa
Suomen ja Viron välillä kulkevassa Elisan tietoliikennekaapelissa havaittiin kello 4.53 häiriö. Alkoi viranomaisten suuroperaatio. HS oli paikalla, kun alus lipui noin kello 17 satamaan Kirkkonummella...
www.hs.fi
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Finnish border guard boarded a Turkish-owned vessel suspected of breaking yet another comms cable in the Gulf of Finland. About time, Turkey takes Russian aggression against Nato allies seriously
www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
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One of my most un-Bluesky opinions (and I have lots!) is that, despite the evil ownership structure, awful environmental/human costs, etc. etc. etc., I'm finding AI increasingly useful in my everyday life and work, in too many ways to describe, and keep hearing the same thing from ordinary people.
January 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
One of my most un-Bluesky opinions (and I have lots!) is that, despite the evil ownership structure, awful environmental/human costs, etc. etc. etc., I'm finding AI increasingly useful in my everyday life and work, in too many ways to describe, and keep hearing the same thing from ordinary people.
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To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close.
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close.
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
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Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic
BREAKING: 11 people were killed at Sydney's Bondi Beach in an attack on the Jewish community, an official says.
Gunmen kill 9 at Bondi Beach; police kill one, arrest another
Two gunmen have shot dead nine people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. This tragic event occurred on Sunday.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic
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Super happy that my friends @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and I have just published a chapter about conspiracy theories, their formation and persistence on digital platforms. Edited by @ihsanylmz.bsky.social & Shahram Akbarzadeh
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
The Persistence of Informational Manipulation and the Appropriation of
This chapter introduces the concepts of conspiratorial publics and conspiratorial canon within the context of Strategic Digital Information Operations (SDIOs)
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Super happy that my friends @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and I have just published a chapter about conspiracy theories, their formation and persistence on digital platforms. Edited by @ihsanylmz.bsky.social & Shahram Akbarzadeh
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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📢 ECPS Commentary
🧭 Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS
✍️ By Nicholas Morieson
🔖 Why does Trump’s NSS characterise Europe—rather than America’s great-power rivals—as the real civilisational crisis zone?
📖 Read: 📎 www.populismstudies.org/why-europe-n...
🧭 Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS
✍️ By Nicholas Morieson
🔖 Why does Trump’s NSS characterise Europe—rather than America’s great-power rivals—as the real civilisational crisis zone?
📖 Read: 📎 www.populismstudies.org/why-europe-n...
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
📢 ECPS Commentary
🧭 Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS
✍️ By Nicholas Morieson
🔖 Why does Trump’s NSS characterise Europe—rather than America’s great-power rivals—as the real civilisational crisis zone?
📖 Read: 📎 www.populismstudies.org/why-europe-n...
🧭 Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS
✍️ By Nicholas Morieson
🔖 Why does Trump’s NSS characterise Europe—rather than America’s great-power rivals—as the real civilisational crisis zone?
📖 Read: 📎 www.populismstudies.org/why-europe-n...
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OPINION: "Warnings last week from ASIO about sabotage threats marked an important shift in tone," write Deakin University's @ihsanylmz.bsky.social & Nicholas Morieson.
"And they raise important questions about how the Australian government should respond."
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
"And they raise important questions about how the Australian government should respond."
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
The threat of sabotage from China is growing
That’s not an excuse to erode Australians’ freedoms.
ia.acs.org.au
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
OPINION: "Warnings last week from ASIO about sabotage threats marked an important shift in tone," write Deakin University's @ihsanylmz.bsky.social & Nicholas Morieson.
"And they raise important questions about how the Australian government should respond."
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
"And they raise important questions about how the Australian government should respond."
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall of Western Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Opinion | The Rise of Social Media and the Fall of Western Democracy
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall of Western Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
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The six copies of the book titled “Hybrid Transnationalism and Repression: Turkey’s Diaspora Under Authoritarian Islamist Siege”, which I co-authored with my dear friend @ihsanylmz.bsky.social , have just arrived from the publisher.
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The six copies of the book titled “Hybrid Transnationalism and Repression: Turkey’s Diaspora Under Authoritarian Islamist Siege”, which I co-authored with my dear friend @ihsanylmz.bsky.social , have just arrived from the publisher.
It Begins With a Joke. Comics in the World’s Largest Democracy Know Where It Ends. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
It Begins With a Joke. Comics in the World’s Largest Democracy Know Where It Ends.
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It Begins With a Joke. Comics in the World’s Largest Democracy Know Where It Ends. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
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Horrible news to wake up to. My heart goes out to everyone affected. 💔
Manchester synagogue attack latest: suspect shot after four people injured in vehicle and stabbing attack, police say
Keir Starmer will fly home early from Europe to chair a Cobra meeting, while Greater Manchester mayor tells people to avoid the area
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Horrible news to wake up to. My heart goes out to everyone affected. 💔
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An absolutely depressing read on the state of higher education in the UK… solidarity with my colleagues.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
An absolutely depressing read on the state of higher education in the UK… solidarity with my colleagues.
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This is US cooperation in transnational repression www.rferl.org/a/iran-us-de...
Iran Confirms Deportation Of 120 Citizens From US This Week
Iran has confirmed that approximately 120 of its citizens will be deported from the United States and returned home this week.
www.rferl.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is US cooperation in transnational repression www.rferl.org/a/iran-us-de...
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The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’
The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’
The president, in five days, has claimed Tylenol causes autism, he was sabotaged at the UN and pronounced his rivals ‘guilty as hell’
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’
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'It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience.'
America’s accelerating exit from itself
After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease
www.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
'It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience.'
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I'd describe the new push to recognize Palestine as "mostly harmless"...
were it not for the fact that these efforts are mostly a fig leaf for not taking more aggressive action to stop what virtually every international human rights organization now describes as a genocide.
were it not for the fact that these efforts are mostly a fig leaf for not taking more aggressive action to stop what virtually every international human rights organization now describes as a genocide.
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'd describe the new push to recognize Palestine as "mostly harmless"...
were it not for the fact that these efforts are mostly a fig leaf for not taking more aggressive action to stop what virtually every international human rights organization now describes as a genocide.
were it not for the fact that these efforts are mostly a fig leaf for not taking more aggressive action to stop what virtually every international human rights organization now describes as a genocide.
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Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.
Britain, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State
The announcements came on the eve of the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly.
nyti.ms
September 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."
'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry
Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."
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I wrote for @theguardian.com about the “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!
High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!
After the far-right mass rally in London, Britain must learn lessons from abroad – and fast | Cas Mudde
This is no time for complacent exceptionalism. The UK is part of the fourth phase of the far right in the postwar era, and its politicians must respond, says political scientist Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I wrote for @theguardian.com about the “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!
High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!
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Trump's emotional targeting of comedy figures is so telling. Hypermasculine strongmen DESPISE being made fun of.
Again, look to Turkey. Experts literally testified on whether comparing Erdoğan to Gollum was an insult. A guy sharing a meme was jailed.
And then there's the satire magazine closures.
Again, look to Turkey. Experts literally testified on whether comparing Erdoğan to Gollum was an insult. A guy sharing a meme was jailed.
And then there's the satire magazine closures.
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Trump's emotional targeting of comedy figures is so telling. Hypermasculine strongmen DESPISE being made fun of.
Again, look to Turkey. Experts literally testified on whether comparing Erdoğan to Gollum was an insult. A guy sharing a meme was jailed.
And then there's the satire magazine closures.
Again, look to Turkey. Experts literally testified on whether comparing Erdoğan to Gollum was an insult. A guy sharing a meme was jailed.
And then there's the satire magazine closures.
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My latest from @foreignpolicy.com
"Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...
"Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...
Erdogan’s Irredentism Just Can’t Keep Up
As international norms crumble, Turkey’s revisionist policies appear less provocative in comparison.
foreignpolicy.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My latest from @foreignpolicy.com
"Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...
"Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...
What Democrats Can Learn From Charlie Kirk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
Opinion | What Democrats Can Learn From Charlie Kirk
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
What Democrats Can Learn From Charlie Kirk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...