Hande

Senior security researcher @Microsoft. Tweets in TR & EN. All views my own, RTs/likes not endorsements.

[Hande @handeguven]

A timely reminder that I'm also on Bluesky as https://t.co/THjJiLq9O5 & looking to be more active on there

Ben de Bluesky'dayım, gelin takipleşelim: https://t.co/THjJiLq9O5

[Newsweek Opinion @NewsweekOpinion]

Turkey's role in migration, energy, and regional security means democratic collapse would not remain within its borders. https://t.co/xeLhH5nMGv

[Gönül Tol @gonultol]

On top of this, bank accounts of 18 people, including jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s son, have been frozen. All this is happening as Turkey’s finance minister Mehmet Simsek is in London trying to convince investors that Turkey is a safe place to put their money.

[Reuters @Reuters]

A Turkish court effectively ousted the main opposition leader, Ozgur Ozel, annulling the 2023 party congress that elected him chairman. The case was seen as a test of Turkey's shaky balance between democracy and autocracy https://t.co/n133BhHWi0

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

A dark day indeed.

An appeals court in Turkey annulled the main opposition party's 2023 election of Özgür Özel as its chair.

Former chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been waiting in the wings, so to speak.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

371 security/ privacy academics, including a Turing Award winner, just issued a letter saying age verification laws are building global surveillance infrastructure. Every search, message, and article read would require ID verification. https://t.co/XdCPta6pn1

[Aspen Policy Academy @AspenPolicyAcad]

🎉 Alums @handeguven and Jessica Wang will present on building AI use guidance for cities at @rightscon in Zambia!

[Hande @handeguven]

@_FlylevelCS Sent you a DM

[Akin Unver @AkinUnver]

Akbank Sanat felsefe seminerleri, geçen yıl katılmaktan en mutluluk duyduğum, kaliteli ve eğlenceli bilim toplantısıydı. Herkese, özellikle teknoloji, toplum ve davranış çalışan öğrencilere, bu seminerleri şiddetle tavsiye ederim.

[Hande @handeguven]

Lina Khan hive rise up

Let's bring this back for this special day https://t.co/j0uX71GU6W

[Michael Lange @MichaelLangeNYC]

Former FTC chair Lina Khan will serve as one of the co-chairs of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team

[DER SPIEGEL @derspiegel]

Istanbuls Oberbürgermeister İmamoğlu sitzt seit März wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Haft. Dem Ansehen des Erdoğan-Rivalen hat das bisher kaum geschadet. Kritiker vermuten, dass deshalb nun neue Anschuldigungen gegen ihn laut werden. https://t.co/CzN2pAE2Hg

[Ekrem İmamoğlu (International) @imamoglu_int]

I do not accept that democracy, justice, and liberty are no longer part of our common future. The world is once again trying to convince us that these values no longer matter, but I refuse to believe it.

From my twelve-square-meter cell in Istanbul, I wrote for Le Monde about one of my Kafkaesque trials, the so-called diploma case. I am accused of forgery, yet no document has ever been proven false. This is what a broken system looks like. It is not justice. It is a political act that turns law into a weapon and truth into a threat.

A century after Kafka described a man condemned without knowing his crime, we are still living in a world ruled by arbitrary accusations and political fear. But Türkiye deserves better. Our people have fought for democracy and freedom for generations, and they will not give up what they earned through courage and sacrifice.

Justice will return. Democracy will prevail.

https://t.co/IsIHl54SN2

[Hande @handeguven]

@doctorow Relatedly, if @doctorow is coming to your town for his book tour, go see him talk! I recently had a chance to hear him on enshittification and it was well worth the trip to Roosevelt Island.

[Hande @handeguven]

As @doctorow said a couple of weeks ago in NYC: the central fantasy at the core of billionaire preppers is a doomsday that will uniquely require their skills and supplies.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Thirty years ago, an Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the theories of Carl Schmitt, the theorist tapped by the Nazis to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship. Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since.
https://t.co/CsmnmBKXeh

[Berk @berkesen]

Online platforms such as X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey following the police blockade of the main opposition party CHP's İstanbul headquarters.

[Hande @handeguven]

@ThatchEffendi happy birthday!

[Hande @handeguven]

Honored to be part of this cohort at @AspenPolicyAcad and so excited to spend the month in San Francisco focusing on tech policy!

[Aspen Policy Academy @AspenPolicyAcad]

🙌 We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Science & Tech Policy Fellowship class! These individuals are currently participating in our month-long policy bootcamp in SF, where they are learning the skills needed to impact policy. View their bios here 👇: https://t.co/m0GVua8JP8

[Julia Hahn @juliahahntv]

Access to jailed Istanbul mayor @ekrem_imamoglu's account on X has been blocked in Turkey - the latest move against President Erdogan's key rival. Imamoglu was arrested in March on corruption charges, and nominated as his opposition CHP's presidential candidate while in custody.

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

EXCLUSIVE: Bellingcat, in partnership with @TjekDet , @politiken and @CBCNews, can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. https://t.co/P0y6CCmkFM

[Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb]

BREAKING: Spyware maker NSO Group must pay $167 million to WhatsApp for a hacking campaign in 2019 that targeted more than 1,400 chat app users.

This is a huge win for WhatsApp. NSO says it will consider appealing.

https://t.co/FZd41fWBiy

[EFF @EFF]

Florida’s new anti-encryption bill is both dumb and dangerous. Florida lawmakers must say no. https://t.co/AXIKwX0Hj7