Cengiz Gunes

MSCA Fellow, University of Tübingen @uni_tue; PhD in Politics @Uni_of_Essex; Associate Lecturer @OUPolitics- Turkey | foreign policy | Kurds

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

The Cambridge History of the Kurds is finally published! This is the most detailed book on Kurdish history published in the English language. It offers an authoritative account of Kurdish history from 15th century onwards. #TwitterKurds

[rusen cakir @cakir_rusen]

Cengiz Çandar'la söyleşi: Çözüm sürecinin bundan sonraki yol haritası https://t.co/br07njrtKz

[BBC News Türkçe @bbcturkce]

Bülent Arınç, Gezi Parkı protestolarını BBC Türkçe'ye değerlendirdi:

"Bu tabii sayın başbakanımız için bir travma oldu. Gezi olaylarını bir kalkışma olarak nitelendirdi ki son tarafıyla gerçekten bir kalkışmadır. Türkiye'nin dengesini bozdu."

https://t.co/ZfIlx972WX

[Matt Broomfield @MattBroomfield1]

In the final piece in my long-term series for @truthdig, I reflect on the slow demise and sudden termination of the Rojava Revolution, and ask what it all meant to those who took part - myself included:

https://t.co/PtqTiliu3d

[Alper Coşkun @iacoskun]

🇹🇷’s strategic autonomy & middle power aspirations are stirring debate, recently causing deeply misguided comments about its influence from @EU_Commission @vonderleyen.

Here’s my take on 🇹🇷’s seeming policy inconsistencies & their drivers @GIS_Reports

https://t.co/KdSVjMBVrF

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

PM embraces Brexit divisions as he seeks closer ties with Europe https://t.co/SDvP1e15DP

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

‘Sir John Curtice: Why Labour's Brexit focus has shifted from Leavers to Remainers’

https://t.co/d97ds6d0l4

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

"America and Israel did not begin this war for our hopes, but for their own interests," said Mustafa Mauludi…"But they are targeting bases of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC], and this will be good for us and help us to go in." #IranRevolution2026

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

'We have been preparing': Why the boots on the ground in Iran could be Kurdish https://t.co/3VdxQYpJOY

[The Amargi @the_amargi]

Is Turkey turning away from the West or only pretending to?
@cgunes07 writes for The Amargi on how Erdoğan’s government balances between Europe, Russia and China. Tap the link to learn what this reveals about Turkey’s future: https://t.co/53HOz12JnA

[bianet @bianet_org]

FINANCIAL TIMES'IN YORUMU

Baskı mı, sermaye gaspı mı: TMSF'nin kontrol ettiği şirket sayısı 1000'i geçti

Financial Times muhabiri J. P. Rathbone şirket varlıklarının TMSF elinde toplanmasına yol açan operasyonları yorumladı: "Bir iktidar tahkimatı".
https://t.co/T7DcpbpRli

[bianet @bianet_org]

"ANKARA-ŞAM İLİŞKİLERİ MERCEK ALTINDA"

"Türkiye ve Suriye askeri istihbarat ve iş birliğini sessizce derinleştiriyor"

Eski bir ÖSO görevlisi: "Türkiye Suriye güvenlik güçleri içine kalıcı bir bayrak dikiyor" diyor.
https://t.co/Wg1X8SfUT3

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

Getting ready to present my paper on ‘Foreign Policy and the Construction of Conservative Nationalist Domestic Social Order in Turkey’. #EWIS2025

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: CBS News reports that Trump is considering joining Israel on strikes of Iranian nuclear sites

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

The Bağlar municipal council in Diyarbakir province started to implement participatory budgeting. Let’s see how this ends given the AKP government is tightening its hold on municipal councils. - Rezan Belediyesi ‘katılımcı bütçe’ modelini devreye koyuyor https://t.co/nX483VjrU2

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

Mansur Yavaş, the mayor of the opposition-run Ankara municipality builds a monument for Talat Pasha, the architect of the Armenian Genocide. #Turkey

[bianet @bianet_org]

🔴 Mansur Yavaş’ın Talat Paşa anıtı

👉 1915’te Ankara Sancağı’nda öldürülen Ermeniler için bir anıt dikilmesi gerekirken, onların ölüm emrini veren birinin kahraman ilân edilmesi kabul edilemez.

✍️ @VartanHalis yazdı

https://t.co/ZHwc0yeGy7

[Jan Vömel @JanVoemel]

Nouvelle arrivée...
Adds to the growing body of reference works on Kurdish history, politics and culture.
Thanks to coauthor @cgunes07

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

My copy just arrived. Edited by Prof. Hamit Bozarslan, who also wrote an introduction and conclusion. President of the Kurdish Institute of Paris @institutkurde, Kendal Nezan wrote the preface and I contributed a chapter on the 20th century history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

@gullistan_ KSN'e ziyaret ile ilgili bilgilendirme gonderse muhtemelen ayni tepkiyi alir.

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

#Turkey has emerged as a key potential partner in restructuring European security, diplomats and analysts say, as #Europe scrambles to bolster its defense and find guarantees for #Ukraine under any forthcoming ceasefire deal urged by the US.

https://t.co/8dN7fJiFWn

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

Herkesin aklında geçen soruları cevaplamış Selahattin Demirtaş. ‘Barışın yanında olalım’ https://t.co/98PUVkuAiU

[Cengiz Gunes @cgunes07]

@fgeerdink I am not sure about that. For me it is crystal clear that leftists should never whitewash islamism when they oppose Islamophobia.