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Happy to share my new article, "Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic," published by Slavic Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.164
For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees' letters exchanged between the #Ottoman and Russian empires in the 1850s–1914. I was lucky to find quite a few: in archives in Tbilisi, Baku, Moscow, Vladikavkaz, and Makhachkala and private collections in #Jordan and Dagestan. The article explores the secret transborder #letter exchange of Caucasus Muslims and reactions by #Russia.
I argue that Muslims' letters from the Ottoman Empire fueled the Russian government's paranoia about Pan-Islamism that purportedly threatened Russia's colonial project in the #Caucasus. The Pan-Islamic panic shaped Russia's migration policies and colonial governance, including bans on Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, emigration, and return migration.
#histodon #histodons #history #MiddleEast #Turkey
Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic - Volume 82 Issue 2Cambridge Core
BREAKING NEWS!
❗️The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets as part of long-term efforts to strengthen Kyiv's security, — a senior White House official commented to NBC News
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Russian #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #Finland
#Türkiye #FensterFreitag #BlackAndWhite #SchwarzWeiß #Monochrome #Photography #Fotografie #StreetPhotography #Architecture
There has been over 100 people arrested who were responsible for the destroyed buildings. I hope it’s not just to calm people down. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-earthquake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Along with the health issues, we now have security problems in the area. People with unknown origin tries to loot buildings and rob people. What’s worse, racist and fascist groups use this to target immigrants and other groups.
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Death Toll Passes 28,000 as Recovery Efforts Ramp Up
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria passed 28,000, Ankara was coming under growing criticism for its slow response and tolerance of shoddy construction.Ben Hubbard (The New York Times)
Aside from the earlier issues I mentioned, one issue was the wounded people who couldn't identified and children without any known relative. Health Minister told they had systems and mechanisms set up for this but everyone is worried how effective those will be during this chaos.
It’s the fifth day but we still get news of people rescued under the rubble.
There are still need for a lot of supplies for the victims and distribution issues continue.
Erdogan also announced the government will pay one year of rent for the earthquake victims, while using religious rhetoric to excuse what’s going on.
Not much additional updates at this point. One major issue I see in the reports from the journalists is that people having trouble with basic hygiene needs, which might end up causing epidemics.
6444 buildings confirmed to be destroyed by the earthquake.
All schools around the country cancelled for another week. Universities won't start spring semester until further notice.
State of emergency declaration for 10 cities accepted in the parliament. Three biggest opposition parties opposed it based on the near-unlimited power it gives to the government.
It's now clear that this earthquake will become the second most devastating disaster in the history of the modern Turkey, leaving 1999 İzmit earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake) behind. It might end up more destructive than 1939 Erzincan earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Erzincan_earthquake).
Right now they're discussing the state of emergency decision in the parliament.
After 10 hours, Twitter returned after the meeting between government officials and Twitter. We don't know what Elon has promised.
There are still people rescued under the rumble but the resources are still limited.
One major issue is the communication. People are especially angry to mobile operators for not doing enough. And they're right.
It’s 01:50 in here and we don’t have any updates for 8 hours. Twitter and TikTok was blocked, the latter seems to be back, and they had a special meeting with the former. After 20+ years with them, I’m sure this is how they’re planning to continue.
(This information from 4 hours ago and we don't have any new information yet.)
Censorship of Twitter is practically confirmed. No official acceptance but it's impossible to reach without VPN. Interestingly, only other platform also censored is TikTok.
Because of this, information from the cities limited with independent journalists, and I can clearly see Twitter getting more silent each moment.
* Erdoğan told one of the victims "it's all part of the plan of the fate".
* I was trying to bring some attention to people's effort to organize information using Twitter API and how it'll be cut down tomorrow with the API changes but looks like it doesn't matter now because for the last 30 mins most of the ISPs started to throttle Twitter from here.
Official news says number of rescue teams and help workers are rising every hour but people in these cities are angry because they feel it's too late.
News coming from every city people rescued under the rumble days later, and all the international support coming in many different ways gives at least some level of hope for the coming days.
Situation hasn't changed much unfortunately, aside from the fact that after the state of emergency declaration they're now trying to control the media in the disaster zones. Plus they took someone under custody for couple tweets.
To be honest, there's not much to update at this point, other than the fact that in each passing hour we see how things are much worse than we imagined and how government's incompetence makes things worse. This is a historically devastating disaster and not sure how long the recovery from it will take.
Updates on the situation is slowing down. Latest official update came in morning and didn’t include wounded people numbers, so I kept the oldest known one.
Even though we had several rescues in the last two days, people are losing their hopes and we start to see the destruction even more clearly. I don’t think we saw the whole truth yet.
Instead, every government official is blaming disinformation, claiming everything is under control. While we see people everywhere telling us otherwise.
Not only that but they started legal process on 90 social media accounts for that, and sharing a link to an app for people to report disinformation to them.
#Turkey #Earthquake
Things are not looking good mainly because government can’t manage to control the situation. But they still claim “they’ve reached everywhere” while on live news people all around seen without any help.
Also Erdogan is nowhere to be seen since yesterday afternoon.
Weather is making things much worse. Roads around the cities hit by the earthquake is blocked or became harder to pass and there are news coming from especially from Hatay and Adıyaman about neighborhoods not receiving any help.
It’s 00:35 in Turkey, and I don’t know how bad things will turn out in the morning or the coming days.
Turkey declared seven day national mourning.
International help started to arrive but because of the size of the effected area and the damage, many places are still waiting for help.
All schools and universities in Turkey has been cancelled for this week.
It’s 18:40 in Turkey. Most cities hit by the earthquake having seriously harsh weather, which makes things even harder.
There are many international help announced but also many places couldn’t receive any help or rescue teams. Plus, there are many minor earthquakes still happening, makes people scared of another major one like it happened around afternoon today.
Considering there are still aftershocks, places where help couldn’t reach yet, and more, I don’t think it’s going to stop here unfortunately.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I hate that we all know that Turkey has a major earthquake risk as a whole yet we still couldn’t manage to protect ourselves and wake up to bad news like this regularly. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-live-updates-quake-tremor-latest-news
Thousands killed in major quakes – as it happened
Numbers of dead expected to increase rapidly amid desperate search and rescue operations following two quakes on MondaySamantha Lock (The Guardian)
Erdoğan made the latest announcement but no acknowledgement about the many places without help. Repeated disinformation claims.
10 cities (Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Diyarbakır, Adana, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Malatya, and Hatay) declared disaster zones and three month state of emergency finally declared for these cities.
The State Department will use the Turkish government’s preferred spelling, #Türkiye, instead of #Turkey, a spokesman said on Thursday. The decision was made in response to a request from the Turkish Embassy.
https://t.co/wRS2DgCEe7?s=09 #gis #geodata
For the State Department, Now It’s Türkiye, Not Turkey
The department will use the Turkish-language spelling in “most formal, diplomatic, and bilateral contexts” after a request from the country’s embassy, a spokesman said.Christine Chung (The New York Times)
Sounds like a right cunt. Congratulations on throwing the Kurds under a bus and getting in bed with an Islamist dictator, dickhead.
https://inkl.com/a/avGEpxSAxrA
#sweden #turkey #nato
Sweden's top diplomat: We'll fulfil deal with Turkey on NATO
Sweden's foreign minister says the country's new center-right government will fulfil all requirements under a deal with Turkey to join…inkl
Erdoğan: “these signatures don't mean the issue is done... Without our parliament's approval, this does not go into effect … The ball is in their court now.”
“Asked about the extradition of suspects, Erdogan said if the Nordic countries did not send these individuals ‘then we will do what is necessary through our institutions and units.’”
https://inkl.com/a/jXnQNxFvWgv
#nato #finland #sweden #turkey #kurds
Erdogan raises possibly nixing NATO-Nordics deal if promises not kept -media
An accord signed with Finland and Sweden to lift Turkey's veto on their NATO membership bids is not the end…inkl
Congratulations to Sweden and Finland for giving in to a genocidal dictator’s demands.
https://inkl.com/a/jXGVVJTvWgv
#kurds #erdoğan #nato #turkey #sweden #finland #democracy #autocracy #europeanValues
Turkey agrees to back Finland, Sweden NATO bid
Turkey agreed to lift opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding the summit.inkl
https://inkl.com/a/zYqpVRcwPNw
#erdogan #turkey #russia #syria #kurdishOppression
Erdogan discusses Turkey's Syria incursion plans with Putin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ankara’s planned military operation in northern Syria and the war in Ukraine with…inkl
https://inkl.com/a/xApRaauvVXv
Well it seems like there’s a very easy solution to that problem… 🤔
Also, what kind of dickhead speaks about himself in the third person? Oh yes, that kind.
#erdogan #turkey #nato #sweden #finland
Erdogan Says Won’t Let ‘Terrorism-Supporting’ Countries Enter NATO
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said talks with Finland and Sweden about their joining NATO were not at the "expected level"…inkl
Ah, our NATO “ally.” What a guy…
https://inkl.com/a/xAyZqLuvVXv
#erdogan #islamism #turkey
Erdoğan says he is cutting all ties with Greek PM, dashing hopes of talks
Turkish president, said to be irked by growing US-Greece relations, calls off meetings aimed at easing tensionsinkl
(Hey, if I’m to be called “a terrorist” by these people and barred from visiting the country I was born in for speaking out against him publicly, I might as well continue to do my job diligently.)
Fuck Erdoğan. I realise Turkey’s geopolitical military value for NATO but just fuck Erdoğan.
https://inkl.com/a/NYRpoltdJzd
#erdogan #turkey #nato #sweden #finland
Turkey blocks early vote on Sweden and Finland joining Nato
Move comes hours after the Nordic nations officially launched their bids to join the allianceinkl
Precisely because these countries were not in NATO, the #CIA had parked the PKK people in #Sweden and #Finland.
Turkey is only using the #PKK as an excuse to say no directly. Rather, it is about lifting sanctions for acquiring #S400 defense systems and rejoining the #F35 program, acquiring modern #F16 fighter jets and that the #EU and #USA don't keep coming up with some new punitive measures.
So #Turkey is about erasing all repression.
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Precisely because these countries were not in NATO, the #CIA had parked the PKK people in #Sweden and #Finland.
Turkey is only using the #PKK as an excuse to say no directly. Rather, it is about lifting sanctions for acquiring #S400 defense systems and rejoining the #F35 program, acquiring modern #F16 fighter jets and that the #EU and #USA don't keep coming up with some new punitive measures.
So #Turkey is about erasing all repression.
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https://inkl.com/a/aRPJRruAxrA
#kurdishSolidarity #nato #sweden #finland #turkey #erdogan
Turkey sets demands, not opposed to Finland, Sweden NATO bid
NATO expects the Nordic countries’ membership bid will not be hindered by Ankara, whose concerns will be addressed.inkl
I may have been born Turkish but my solidarity is with the Kurds and their struggle for an independent, democratic, and egalitarian society. Sweden and Finland should be applauded for their support.
https://inkl.com/a/WArJpYIygzy
#turkey #erdogan #kurdishSolidarity #nato #sweden #finland
Erdoğan says Turkey does not support Finland and Sweden joining NATO
A formal objection by Turkey would derail Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO.inkl