law & diplomacy - Current @BilkentIRDept, former @MFATurkiye // Columnist @TurkeyinDepth // IG: @evliyacan & @counterdictionary // RT ≠ endorsement
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My piece in @TurkeyInDepth2 this week:
“Above the parliamentary chamber stands a familiar inscription: Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation. It has watched governments come and go, each confident in the permanence of its own moment.” 👇
Who consents for a nation?
On the Republic’s 103rd anniversary, @shehbender looks at two parliaments, one in Libya and one in Ankara, and what their votes reveal about sovereignty.
The Third Desk → turkeyindepth.com/article/13…
My piece in @TurkeyInDepth2 this week:
“Above the parliamentary chamber stands a familiar inscription: Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation. It has watched governments come and go, each confident in the permanence of its own moment”
Who consents for a nation? On the Republic’s 103rd anniversary, @shehbender reads two parliaments, one in Libya and one in Ankara, and asks what sovereignty means when a defense pact is up and running before lawmakers vote on it.
t.ly/cFbk9
Mersin has three theories about its own name: a shrub, a family and a berry. It is far surer about its fortune, which arrived courtesy of the American Civil War.
On my home town and the name on the paperwork:
evliyacan.substack.com/p/mer…
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
Ministers 7 to 3. Parliament 70 to 30. Army 60 to 40. A veto on each side.
Cyprus’s 1960 Republic was a partnership of two communities. By 1964 one partner was out. @shehbender on why #COP31 invitations to both sides reopen that story. ⚖️
turkeyindepth.com/article/13…
An invitation is not recognition. In international law, recognition requires intent, not a badge and a seat in the plenary.
On COP31, Cyprus and the art of holding two positions at once:
Of all the documents COP31 produces, the guest list may prove the most accurate. 📜
@shehbender on Ankara’s two invitations to Cyprus, and the 62-year-old question behind them.
turkeyindepth.com/article/13…
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
Tarihte ilk kez Kanada Başbakanı Ankara'ya resmi bir ziyaret yapacak.
Dışişleri'nin erken kayıplarından Can Öztaş'ın @shehbender Kanada ile ilgili şu iki olağanüstü şiirsel taşlamasını kaçırmayın.
Kanada'nın "ilkeli pragmatizmi"
turkeyindepth.com/article/68…
turkeyindepth.com/article/13…
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
@shehbender Can Öztaş’ın bu şiirsel Kanada taşlamasını sakın kaçırmayın👇
Missed last week’s Turkey in Depth? Three free reads to start your Monday:
⚖️ @barcinyinanc: Ankara’s case in Brussels
🍁 @shehbender: Mark Carney’s Oct. 21–23 visit
📺 Portrait of the Week: Halk TV
The rest is for subscribers: t.ly/cFbk9
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
A slow Sunday, three considered reads:
Why Ankara says the EU must keep its word, by @barcinyinanc ⚖️
What Mark Carney’s first-of-its-kind visit tells us about middle powers, by @shehbender 🌫️
What Halk TV’s seizure means for the people inside it, in our Portrait of the Week 📺
turkeyindepth.com
"Greece and Turkey cannot agree where the sea ends, but have agreed on who should lend them the money to defend it." Read further?
Below is my latest piece as Carney makes the first bilateral visit to Türkiye by a Canadian PM.
Mark Carney is set to become the first Canadian prime minister to pay a bilateral visit to Turkey. Not long ago, Ottawa was cancelling defense export permits to Ankara.
@shehbender on what changed and what still holds 🌫️
turkeyindepth.com/article/13…
My piece for Prof. Kuçuradi.
In 1994, Turkey asked philosopher İoanna Kuçuradi to chair its human rights council. The foreign ministry gave her assignments but never told her what to say.
@shehbender on a scholar whose authority didn’t depend on office:
turkeyindepth.com/article/12…
#HumanRights
My new piece on Prof. Kuçuradi
Your Sunday reads from Turkey in Depth, free to read:
🌍 @barcinyinanc on the one word that could derail COP31
🏛 Portrait of the Week: Izmir’s mayor and a promise about his wife
📚 @shehbender on philosopher İoanna Kuçuradi
turkeyindepth.com
For most of the twentieth century, “Made in” offered a reasonably simple answer about where something came from. Today the battery may be Chinese, the factory Turkish and the customer German. See below to read further…
China would invest. Turkey would manufacture. Europe would buy.
An elegant formula. Perhaps a little too elegant.
@shehbender on "Made in Türkiye" ⚙️
turkeyindepth.com/article/12…
Yeri doldurulamayacak bir değerimizi kaybettik… eserleri ve fikirleriyle yaşayacak değerli hocamız
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My new piece inspired by Nasreddin Hoca… 👇
🇹🇷 More than a week after two Turkish ambassadors were accused of betraying national values for following host-country protocol, Ankara has said nothing in their defense. "Silence, here, is not neutrality," writes @shehbender. Full context here t.ly/cFbk9
What is the Critical Legal Conference?
A great commentary by Gilbert Leung
youtu.be/sgKCLr6oop8?si=lG26… via @YouTube
Can Öztaş, LL.M., Ph.D. retweeted
Wars watched almost in real time, translation in seconds, and the world is hardly easier to understand. A slow read on the diplomat Turkey will need. ☕
@shehbender in The Third Desk:
turkeyindepth.com/article/12…
My last piece 👇 Turkish diplomats should be able to interpret, recommend, warn and sometimes tell the capital what it would rather not want to hear…
AI may make translation effortless and diplomatic archives almost bottomless. But does that make diplomacy easier?
From Ukraine and Gaza to Syria, Iran and the Caucasus, information is abundant while certainty remains scarce.
@shehbender on why judgement becomes more valuable, not less.
t.ly/cFbk9
My latest piece 👇
🇬🇷 NATO member.
🇹🇷 NATO member.
🇮🇱 US strategic partner.
🇸🇦 US partner.
🇵🇰 US partner.
And they are building security arrangements partly to protect themselves from each other. @shehbender captures the absurd logic of Eastern Mediterranean security. t.ly/cFbk9
