Eli Lee

@elilee_

Researching domestic/foreign influence games . Formerly: Turkish history . Tweets on US politics + Turkish affairs + the intersections between

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Nov 2017

    I wrote a brief narrative rundown of the AKP jacket phenomenon for 's December print edition. Thanks for the quote, , and thanks also to for helping me get a handle on this story!

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  2. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    Assume for a sec that the US is in the midst of a constitutional crisis (it is). Notice how the stores are still open, your bus completed its usual route & the game still on? That’s what makes genuine crises terrifying, bc they (co)exist for so long within our normal exp of life.

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  3. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    The thoughts expressed in this tweet are totalitarian.

    Does the so-called “Senior Administration Official” really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!
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  4. 24 hours ago

    Really fun thread on early globalization as seen and described by an Ottoman imperial inspector in 1863 ⬇️

    Plums & Power ~ In 1863, the Ottoman inspector-general Cevdet Pasha arrived to Bosnia and began to investigate the global flows of the plum trade
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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    Is it a conflict of interest for Trump to promote one of his private businesses as "beautiful" speaking in his capacity as president? Obviously. Read on all the times Trump and his admin have boosted the Trump brand while in office

    Pres says he's "thrilled" to be back in Charlotte. "I actually have investments in Charlotte," he says, citing his golf club on Lake Norman. Says press may cry "conflict of interest" because he mentions it.
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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    This map is scary. From 's insightful reporting on the concentration of "heat islands" in less affluent parts of the city:

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    on why local elections have gotten so expensive, who that hurts, and how cities are leveling the playing field:

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    These admissions are long overdue. There's a class of journalists who, although legendary, put their fear of being branded as biased and non-objective over the ideals of the profession. And it help lead us to where we are

    I’ve seen a nearly 50-year campaign to delegitimize the press, and I’m saying so. For years, I didn’t say a word about this publicly, and at times I even caught myself drawing false equivalencies because I was afraid of being labeled as biased.”—Chuck Todd
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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Today, a Myanmar court sentenced our colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to seven years in jail. Why? For committing good, brave journalism and exposing the massacre detailed in this story. Please share this work so the truth cannot be silenced:

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  10. Sep 3

    Tbh Jared does give off the congenitally hapless but still detestable vibe of a late-era sultan

    It's going to be a hell of thing when Jared Kushner re-creates the Ottoman Empire.
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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 3

    Someone made a very difficult choice here between bread and La Croix.

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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    Claim being made that CHP party report on the election says that 2.5 million fake votes were entered onto the system - enough to swing it for Erdoğan

    Günaydın... CHP Parti Meclisi'ne sunulan ve seçim raporunda 2, 5 milyon sahte oyun sisteme girdiği, yüzbinlerce mükerrer (iki ya da üç kez kullanılan) oyun kullanıldığı belirtiliyor. Bu rakam, kullanılan toplam oyun yüzde 7'sine denk geliyor. AKP ve Erdoğan kazandı öyle mi?
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  13. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    -adamdan iki bira istiyorum +Saat 10'u geçtiği için persuasion roll lütfen *Rolls 2* + Kasiyer polisi aradı

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  14. Sep 1

    This fuckin family, man

    An extraordinary essay from the father of Mollie Tibbetts:
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  15. Aug 31

    This new account is already great

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  16. Aug 31

    No joke: “One said that for her and her female friends, he did not even exist as a man.”

    ‘The world, including much of Israel and Jewish communities around the globe, was horrified.’ 🤭
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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    This, incidentally, is part of what still interests me in the Zarrab case, and why it’s still relevant. There, Giuliani tried to kill a case involving a Turkish corrupt shadow economy. The same cast of characters pop up where vast, secret flows of money undermine democracy.

    Giuliani letter criticizing Romania’s anti-corruption drive draws State Department attention via
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  18. Retweeted
    Aug 30

    NEW, by me: Newsmax owner and Trump confident Chris Ruddy denied trying to sell the right-wing outlet to Qatar, but his dozens of calls and texts to a Qatari representative suggest otherwise

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    Aug 30

    Good morning! I'd like to talk about feels and their limits. Today's story is about "dialogue" -- the notion that we can solve America's problems by talking it out. Our players are , purveyor of feel-good videos, and a guy who threatened to assault and stalk me. /1

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 30

    Guys, this is BAD. When we allow public servants to forego a salary, that raises the expectation that they will. And that, in turn, privileges candidates who can afford to.

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    moderator just asked if—since she's in —whether she would forego the Governor's salary if elected. Her answer? Yes.
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  21. Retweeted
    Aug 29

    Stumbled upon this US diplomatic cable from 2003 giving a (surprisingly?) critical and well-informed background of Erdoğan's mayoral experience, including "an extensive pattern of corruption."

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