Howard Eissenstat

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Associate Professor, Middle East History, St. Lawrence University Tweets reflect personal opinions only RT not an endorsement

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  1. AKP's internal war, round 5. But, as sympathetic as I am to the technocrats, I think Erdogan has a lock on this

  2. Great piece from of Media silent or silenced as Turkey spirals downward

  3. The season of hatred in Turkey, in a way I haven't seen in many years. So of course, non-Muslims are targeted too

  4. Amnesty on Cizre: Basic needs must be met; observers must be allowed access:

  5. The Frederike Geerdink case: Journalism under Fire in Turkey [updated 9/11]:

  6. Amnesty statement on

  7. My favorite no-waste charity is having a fund-raising campaign: works with Syrian refugee children

  8. Attn:

  9. Outside of totalitarian regimes, where would leader not be shamed out of office for this?

  10. Images of the Cizre March from Reuters and DHA

  11. Here's what Amnesty said on the Kandil raid. Sound familiar? Note: Turkish gov denied civilian casualties there too

  12. Some recent history. Turkey denied civilian deaths in Kandil raid. Here's what Amnesty found:

  13. Correspondent: Friday prayer is cancelled in . Call to prayer silent and special forces snipers man minarets

  14. Pretty much this.

  15. "I'm not a heartless, child-kicking racist camera-person," said the heartless, child-kicking racist camera-person.

  16. And, remarkably, the Gezi trials go on....

  17. In case that makes no sense to you, part of Turkish social memory is understanding non-Muslims as "the enemy within"

  18. Police called on Cizre's population: "You're all Armenian"

  19. I always liked that guy...

  20. Just enough time to have a nice tea.

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