Ceren Şengül

Editorial Manager @SENJournal; PhD in Sociology @edinburghuni; #whiteness #transnationalism #Turkey

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

I had the pleasure of reviewing Elise Massicard's book "Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey" in the latest issue of Contemporary Sociology for those who are interested 👇 #academia #academicwriting

https://t.co/1gYAYTgTzV

[ASEN @asenevents]

❗The MSc in Nationalism in Global Perspective at the University of Edinburgh is to close from next year.

Please sign and share ASEN's letter to the Vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Peter Mathieson, asking for it to be reconsidered - head to https://t.co/LbLK1dy69u to add your name

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

Alp Altınörs: Ne zaman sözde 'Amerikan karşıtı' bir rejim altında halk sokağa çıksa, bizim solun kafası karışır https://t.co/X0b9dQ9IJA @dikencomtr aracılığıyla

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

10 yıl önce barış isteme 'suçunu' işledik. #BarışBildirisiOnuncuYıl

[BarışAkademisyenleri @BarisAkademik]

Bugün 9 Ocak 2026. 2 gün sonra #BarışBildirisi’nin 10. yıldönümü.

Önümüzdeki 3 gün boyunca bu 10 yılda yaşadıklarımızı ve mücadelemizi anlatan paylaşımlar yapacağız.

Yitirdiğimiz hocalarımızı anarak, anıları önünde saygı ve özlemle eğilerek başlıyoruz.

#BarışBildirisiOnuncuYıl

[Ali Abbasi @_aliabbasi_]

You have to completely separate #IranProtests2026 from the Gaza war. The Kaffieh wearing pro regime militia dont represent anything but Fascism and oppression. One can support the struggle of Iranian people while opposing the child killings of Israeli government .

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

The country on strike. Massive numbers on the streets. Internet cut. Mullahs seen at Moscow airport. Yet the regime still shoot at protestors. Many dead. But the people keep on coming. The courage of our fellow human beings is staggering. #IranRevolution2026
Tehran tonight ⬇️

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

American interventionism did not start with Trump.

[Gabriel @GabeZZOZZ]

Was America hated like this before Trump?

[Lateef 🙃 @LateefSaka]

And Americans ask why others care so much about their elections… the world has to live with your voting choices

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

Would see as 'less than'. So when they move and see that their colleagues in those jobs consist mostly of those and that they are actually not different than them, they have some sort of an existential crisis.

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

Great points. I would also add that there is also a ethnic aspect to this syndrome. Most 'white Turks' imagine that when they move abroad with their white-collar jobs that they would be seen by white Europeans as different than Syrians, Blacks or any other ethnicity that they

[Reha Discioglu @rehadiscioglu]

I define this as "being nobody syndrome." They become "nobody" when they move abroad.

Unfortunately, everything in Turkey is a status symbol: your parents' jobs, whether you drink alcohol, owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner, the school you attended. Any small or big thing imaginable.

These people are used to being seen as high-status because their company provides a car or phone. Despite working 10-12 hours with only 2 weeks of PTO for their "email jobs," they are considered important, fostering a false sense of upper-middle-class status. They lose this in the Europe, where nobody cares about their email jobs, company cars, or prestigious schools. Suddenly, they realize they are just middle class.

As the first highly educated daughter from a farming family in a small Turkish town, I felt super liberated when I first moved to Finland for my master's degree. Nobody cared about where I lived or what car my dad drove. It was just about what kind of person I was and what I produced as a student. It took me 10 years to hit the European glass ceiling of class. Even today, it feels easier for me to establish a life from zero as nobody anywhere in the world than in Turkey because of this stupid status game.

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

Israel is intentionally blocking the entry of aid.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Israel is the only nation on Earth that is expected to set up a flawless food supply chain to feed a nation they’re at war with

[Cumartesi Anneleri @CmrtesiAnneleri]

Büyük bir üzüntüyle duyuruyoruz:

Cesaretiyle, ısrarı ve kararlılığıyla hakikat ve adalet mücadelemizin en güçlü sesi Emine Ocak’ı kaybettik.

Cenaze törenine ilişkin bilgiler ayrıca duyurulacaktır.

Ocak Ailesi
Cumartesi Anneleri
İnsan Hakları Derneği

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

@UniofOxford the pictured tweet is a hate crime.

[Gabe @esc_gabe]

It’s long past time to bring an end to this farce in the contest. Aside from being morally indefensible it’s also destroying the legitimacy of the voting process. Just get rid of them already.

[BarışAkademisyenleri @BarisAkademik]

Dost ve direngen bir sesi, barış ve adalet mücadelesinden asla yılmayan sevgili Sırrı Süreyya Önder’i kaybettik. Üzüntümüz büyük. Ailesine ve tüm sevenlerine başsağlığı diliyoruz.
#SırrıSüreyyaÖnder

[Garo Paylan - Կարօ Փայլան @GaroPaylan]

Ermeni Soykırımı 110 yıl önce bugün başladı.
Önce Ermeni aydınlar, ardından topyekün Ermeni halkı kadim topraklarından sürüldü, katledildi.
Ermeni Soykırımında hayatını kaybedenleri saygıyla anıyorum.
Աստուած իրենց հոգին լուսաւորէ...

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

Secularism has always been THE existential question of the Republic.

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

This may come as a shock to Muslims living in the West and having no idea about Turkish context but this resistance to living life the way Islam dictates (to Sharia law) is literally why people are on the streets protesting currently ('the bigger picture' reason).

[Sasan Ērān 𓃬☀ @SasanRebels]

Muslim from the UK goes to Istanbul for Ramadan and was disappointed to find that nobody was fasting.

It’s amazing that anywhere worth living in the Muslim world, ie Istanbul and Gulf countries, are heavily secular.

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

"We demand immediate action from the administration, EUSA and security to condemn the blatant apathy towards violence committed against students in solidarity with Palestine".

https://t.co/5Ps6gqmV2w

[Ceren Şengül @csengul86]

This is beautiful. ✌🏼

[Evrensel Gazetesi @evrenselgzt]

📢Maçka Parkı'nda buluşan binlerce öğrenciden "Çav Bella" performansı

https://t.co/Ety4muE4V6