Timur Kuran

@timurkuran

Professor, Duke University. Economic and political development, social change, Islam, Middle East, Turkey.

Durham, NC
sites.duke.edu/timurkuran
Joined July 2016
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  1. 2 hours ago

    Hukukuk üstünlüğünde sondan on ülkenin içinde, ‘şüphelileri’ apronda linç edip, sonra ‘hain Yunanistan iade etmiyor’

    Haftalarca resmi ajansınla işkence görmüş asker fotoları yayınladıktan sonra 'aa, neden cuntacıları iade etmiyorlar' diye ağlaş.
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  2. 3 hours ago

    Germany scraps law banning Germans from insulting foreign leaders. People who care, in descending order: 1 Erdogan 2 Trump 3 That's it

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Turks should expect more corruption of this sort under one-man rule. But reporting corruption will be punishable. This is a preview.

    Journalist slapped with TL12K lira fine for her report showing that judges bought luxury homes built by state at discount rates
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  4. 11 hours ago

    Banning entire nations is madness. But even on its own terms policy makes no sense. 15 of 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. None from Yemen.

    Worth noting that no national of the countries on Trump's ban list has perpetrated an act of Islamic terror on U.S soil.
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  5. 17 hours ago

    Good lord: just downgraded the US on the democracy scale: Now rated a “flawed democracy”

    340 replies 7,039 retweets 5,241 likes
  6. Jan 24

    Team Erdogan effectively equates "no to dictatorship" with "support for terrorism". Heightens Intimidation of dictatorship opponents.

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  7. Jan 24

    In Gambia, new government frees political prisoners who thought they'd never survive prior authoritarian regime.
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  8. Jan 24

    This is wrong on principle. It is also dumb. Half the country mistrusts academia already. Wake up. via

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  9. Jan 24

    German government honors exiled general editor of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. Courageous move that sets a fine example for other countries.

    Ankara-Berlin hattında 'Can Dündar' gerilimi
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  10. Jan 24

    The educated know how to support arguments through statistics. Uneducated don't. Resulting mistrust poses challenge.

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  11. Jan 24

    Brad DeLong is correct that NAFTA did not gut American manufacturing . So what did NAFTA really do? +

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  12. Jan 24

    Also, retrospective analyses have found small aggregate gains for US as a whole. Redistribution figures prominently relative to net gains.

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  13. Jan 24

    According to the best analysis to date, NAFTA reshuffled a lot of income and depressed wages in affected communities

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  14. Jan 24

    Another way to get an "alternate fact": actually change it.

    Christian cross removed from Real Madrid logo in UAE
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  15. Jan 24

    In 2017, Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 is immediately relevant to more places around the globe than when it first appeared in 1949.

    Sales of George Orwell's 1984 surge after Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts'
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  16. Jan 24

    As Turkey completes transition to one-man rule, film that promotes Erdogan cult will make its debut. Trailer reminiscent of Hitler's rise.

    Here's the trailer
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  17. Jan 23

    Remember also the burst of liberalism at Tahrir Square. Triumphant people went home without organizing, and M Brotherhood filled the void.

    History shows that protests alone are not enough. In 1932, 100,000 people in Berlin demonstrated against the Nazis.
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  18. Jan 23

    Turkey's referendum is its last chance to escape tyranny. "No" unlikely: election won't be free, and it probably won't be fair either.

    Will presidential referendum save Turkey's democracy?
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  19. Jan 23

    Reminds me of this one:

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  20. Jan 23

    In a society partitioned into echo chambers, various truth complexes develop more or less independently. Chambers listen to own experts.

    Exactly - it's amazing how hard it is for the critics to realize that truth counts for little if it can't be credibly communicated.
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