Dr Ayla Göl

Author, Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity & Foreign Policy. SFHEA. Political Analyst, Writer, Traveller. @YorkStJohn @YSJReligion

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

I am pleased to share that 'Rethinking the Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate and Positioning the New Turkey in International Relations' is published in Yesilbursa, Behcet Kemal, (ed.) The Centenary of the Republic of Turkey (2023) @YSJU RaY https://t.co/ivOtHn6XWH

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

@SPBeale Thank you Simon, super cool!

[Jenny H 🏰 @JenHistoryCW11]

😍😍👏👏

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

@Nesil_Caliskan @calemre Many congratulations 👏

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

@dibyeshanand Many congratulations 👏 seems you made your mum & dad very proud once again 🎉

[Tom Lockwood @thomaslockwood_]

👇 Debut piece for @ConversationUK , with @ChrisDJKirkland

This is billed as a ‘change’ election – but Britain’s electoral system means hardly any seats are true multi-party contests

https://t.co/psagD1U0R3

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

ICC case against Ursula v.d. Leyen before the ICC for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza https://t.co/65ps3Knxf1

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

U.S. Campus Protests: Why It's Wrong to Denounce Students' Focus on Decolonization: Critics of campus demonstrations are aiming at the wrong target. We need to study more history, not less.⁦@ForeignPolicy⁩ https://t.co/4ZES3r3VCA

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

@elonmuskADO No

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇵🇸 Elon Musk SUSPENDED Nelson Mandela’s Grandson today as he joined the historic effort to deliver lifesaving aid to Gaza.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

We stand with the campus protesters.

We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.

[Dr Ayla Göl @iladylayla]

@joanne_hopkins @jgmaber @GillianMcFadyen @Huw_Aber Many congratulations Dr Elliott! Look forward to catching up if you are in Yorkshire, please let me know. Enjoy the celebrations in Aber🎉 🥂 👏

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

The @UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling upon all States to cease the sale, transfer & diversion of arms, munitions & other military equipment to Israel to prevent further violations of international humanitarian+human rights laws.

#HRC55

[Alex @StoffelAlex]

Protesters interrupt the annual @isanet presidential address.

Joined by, well, everyone. 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

@BDSatISA @BDSmovement

[Stephen Walt @stephenWalt]

Even I seem to have underestimated Washington’s ability to keep making the same foreign policy mistakes no matter who is in the White House.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is.

Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (!!!).

They cut funding for UNRWA, which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline).

Even if you were the world's worst cynic, you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable.

They did so with the cheapest possible excuse, effectively using Israel's narrative that "UNWRA is Hamas" and allegations by Israel that some UNWRA staff were involved in the 7th Oct attack but 1) Israel has been making these accusations for months (so the timing of cutting funding right after the ICJ ruling is obviously not a coincidence) and 2) UNWRA has announced it's terminated the contracts of the staff members accused (12 people out of its 30,000 strong workforce) and launched an investigation, so it obviously doesn't condone this. Even if the allegations were to be proven correct, how can an organization of 30,000 staff be held collectively accountable for the individual actions of 0.04% of its workforce? Especially in the current context when its work is a life or death matter for millions of people.

To add to the cynicism here, UNWRA staff are actually a major victim of the war with at least 152 UNRWA staffers killed by Israel in Gaza to date. In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside with the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Noam Chomsky on Julian Assange: "He should be given a medal - he is contributing to democracy"
#FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW #InternationalFreeAssangeDay

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Josh Paul resigned from the State Dept over sending arms to Israel. “I have heard from actually so many hundreds of colleagues at this point who support what I did,” he says. “They are finding what is happening both a moral disaster and a policy disaster for the United States.”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[United Nations @UN]

Thousands of children like Remas & Rama are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the violence in Gaza.

@unicef‌ calls for an immediate ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access & the release of all abducted children.