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Kenan Behzat Sharpe@kenansharpe.bsky.social |
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Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University / writing book on Anatolian Rock, the Turkish left, and the global 1960s / sometimes journalist, most recently at Medyascope and OBC Transeuropa/ posts on art & culture in Turkey
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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Every December for 5 years now I have made a massive end-of-the-year playlist and accompanying Twitter thread of the best songs to come out of Turkey. I think it's important to highlight the incredible creativity coming out of the country.
You can read it here: en.velvele.net/2023/12/11/b...
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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Thanks so much, Nick! I hope you enjoy the playlist this year
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Nick Ashdown
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Check out the new Spotify playlist from the best commentator on Turkish music out there, @kenansharpe.bsky.social
So far I'm loving the new Jakuzi single.
open.spotify.com/playlist/4xc...
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al-Mutaghatris
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Excited for this round table discussion on Higher Ed in Turkey in the latest issue of IJMES menasky
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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For me it's the flawed but radical political project that never quite was but (maybe?) still could be that matters the most. But if drinking and BBQ were a bigger part of Cumhuriyet Bayramı rather than marching with flags (less my thing), I'd be first in line.
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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Today's the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. On the one side, you have crowds chanting Erdoğan's name & rejecting all the republic (should have) stood for. On the other, people sharing utterly apolitical messages with Atatürk's photo as if anything from the republic remains under the AKP
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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New project? Looks interesting!
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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The more I think about Turkey’s three days of “national mourning” the more frustrated I get. Let me get this right: do a big empty symbolic gesture for Palestine but make not one concrete action against Israel or to stop the massive flow of money to and from Turkey. But ban music and theater, yes…
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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Çünkü müzik, tiyatro, sanat susturulunca savaş bitiyor…