Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic

Historian (Late Ott. Emp.& Middle East); Commentator on regional affairs; Frmr IES Abroad Ist. Cent. Founder&Dir.; Animal Rights Defender; Nullius in Verba!!

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

@ayayciog Tebrik ederim 🌷

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

Yarın İbn Haldun Üniversitesi'nde "Tanzimat'tan Günümüze Eğitim ve Modernleşme" temalı panel.
@ibnhalduni
@vbaysan

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

İbn Haldun Üniversitesi ve Türk Eğitim Tarihi Platformu birlikteliğinde düzenlediğimiz "19. Yüzyıldan Günümüze Türk Eğitim Tarihinde Devlet Politikaları ve Modernleşme" başlıklı panelimize davetlisiniz @mstgndz3334 @ibnhalduni

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

An important topic

[Dr. Jeroen Harun Vlug @jeroen_vlug]

Happy to present my paper on Taşköprüzade’s Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda at next week's international workshop, "Polymathy and Problem-Solving in the History of Islamic Knowledge," at Ghent University.

Looking forward to the conversations and exchanges! 😊

Program: https://t.co/asAKLIqnru

[Ismail Numan Telci @numanis]

We are excited to announce the International Summer School on Gulf Studies, organized by Ibn Haldun University's Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy.

Taking place in Istanbul from July 21 to 25, 2026, this intensive program offers a deep dive into the politics, economy, and society of the Gulf region.

The summer school invites graduate students and early-career researchers to apply by June 7, 2026.

https://t.co/avUhguFAPV

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

Eğitim tarihimizde kadr ü kıymeti anlaşılamamış, hakkında detaylı-derinlikli araştırma yapılmamış büyük kahramanlardan özgün bir felsefeci, ansiklopedist ve Maarif Nazırı Emrullah Efendi, IV. Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayı'nın konusu oluyor.

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayları serisi İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi ve Platformumuz organizasyonunda devam ediyor

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

Türk Eğitim Tarihi Platformu, YTÜ ve İMÜ, EFST Bilim Dalı işbirliğiyle -artık gelenekselleşen- Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayı'nın IV.'sü planlandı.
Kesin takvim, müzakereciler ve katılımcılar kısa süre sonra açıklanacak.
@vbaysan
@YildizEFSTT
@YildizEdu
@EgitimYtu

[Kültür Ocağı Vakfı @kulturocagi]

KOCAV Divan Sohbetleri’nin bu dönem ki son konuğu, İbni Haldun Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Dr. Vehbi Baysan. (@vbaysan )

Sessiz otoriterlik 3.0: Ortadoğu’da Modern Gücün Görünmezliği başlığıyla 15 Mayıs Cuma saat 19.00'da gerçekleştirilecek sohbete davetlimizsiniz.

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

Program, yarın akşam Salı 23:15'te

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

@mehmet_1234 Müneccim başı PAZAR günü demiş, günü değiştirmeyelim, ne olur ne olmaz :-))

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayları serisinden eğitim tarihimize bir önemli katkı daha...
Tebrikler @mstgndz3334, tebrikler @BusraTombak

Türk Eğitim Tarihi Platformu IV. Çalıştay hazırlıklarına başlamıştır.

Ayrıca düzenlenecek sempozyum ve kongreleri duyurmaya devam edeceğiz

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

"Eğitim Tarihi Yazıcılığı" konulu III. Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayı raporumuz ALANYZIN'da yayımlandı.
Çalıştay bildiri kitabı hazırlanıyor.
IV. Çalıştayımız planlandı, çok yakında.
Emeği geçenlere teşekkürler.
@YildizEFSTT
@ytuegitim
@BusraTombak
@sena_csgn
@AktanSmer

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Sosyal medyada Trump'in bu mesajı paylaşılıyor. @CNN, @Independent vb. yayınlarına konu ettiler ama herkes görselini paylaşıyor, mesaj ortada yok, WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE!!

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Beş dakika, Trump'in açıklamasından sadece beş dakika önce olmuş olan

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

After years of research and writing, my book is now out.

In this work, I examine how education became a key pillar of Ottoman reform and governance.

#OttomanHistory
#MiddleEastHistory
#HistoryOfEducation
#OttomanEmpire
#NineteenthCentury
#StateBuilding
#Modernization
#reform

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

One of the good articles on Müsadere, congrats @yasinarslantas0

[Yasin Arslantaş @yasinarslantas0]

I am pleased to share that my article "Confiscation as Governance in the Ottoman Empire, 1750-1839" has been published online by Past and Present. Please find it here: https://t.co/jkJIbIeVPr, or contact me if you would like a copy.

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

In sum, you do what you do. And sometimes this is all you can do..

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Yarın saat ikide...

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Bir güzel organizasyon daha sona erdi, @mstgndz3334 hocaya ve emeği geçen herkese teşekkürler

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

III. Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayı'nı YTÜ, Eğitim Fakültesi'nde çok değerli katılımcılarımızla tamamladık. Başta Sena Coşğun Kandal ve Sümer Aktan olmak üzere programımıza katı veren herkese ekibimiz adına çok teşekkür ederiz.
Gün boyu tam bir bilgi şöyleni oldu.

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

Türk Eğitim tarihine bir katkı daha 🌷

[Mustafa Gündüz @mstgndz3334]

III. Türk Eğitim Tarihi Çalıştayı'nı @YildizEdu, @yildizegitim bünyesinde yapıyoruz.
"Türkiye'de Eğitim Tarihi Yazıcılığı"
Konunun ilgileriyle iki bildiri ekseninde bir sunum ve müzakereler yapılacak.
@YildizEFSTT
@EgitimYtu
@BusraTombak
@sena_csgn
@AktanSmer
@eyupcucuk

[Vehbi Baysan (Ph.D.) Academic @vbaysan]

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Sadece bir dizi rakam değil!..
Libya merkezli sosyal medyaya göre Seyfulİslam Kaddafiyi ziyaret eden Ahmet Kaddafi fotoları geçen Aralıkta sosyal medyada paylaşınca Zintan'daki (başkent Trablusun 135 km güney batısı) evi coğrafi belirleme sayesinde ifşa olmuş