Lisel Hintz

I’m over the moon our MENA writing solidarity Zoom group won the 2026 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award. Started after the Feb 2023 earthquakes, we’re in Week 166. My co-hosts are Devrim Yavuz, @feydasayan, @MKalousian, Simin Kargar, @irem_cihan, and @ozlem__tuncel.

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@EkremToroman @feydasayan @MKalousian Çok teşekkür ederim Ekrem Abi ve Feriha Abla!

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian Başarılarının devamını diliyoruz

I’m honored to win two APSA career awards, both for my MENA writing solidarity group (in Week 168). The Sage/CQ Press Award recognizes social justice and equity projects. I share the APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award with cohosts @feydasayan @MKalousian and Devrim Yavuz

@alp_yenen @feydasayan @MKalousian Çok teşekkürler!

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian Çok tebrikler!

@C_Plaisant Thank you very much for including our piece in this great selection!

In my latest blog post, I review and highlight a selection of key articles from this week that provide valuable perspectives on #Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy developments. The post covers a range of topics, including: 1⃣The tenth anniversary of the failed coup attempt, featuring contributions by Lisel Hintz (@LiselHintz) /Hakkı Taş (@hakkitash), and Barış Özkul (@Barzkul6), as well as an interview with Hakan Şahin (@hakanexlieu) published in Evrensel. 2⃣The ongoing peace process between the Turkish government and the PKK, including the latest analysis by Cuma Çiçek for Birikim (@birikimdergisi) 3⃣Public perceptions of NATO in Turkey, highlighting the findings of the latest survey conducted by IstanPol (@istanpolinst) 4⃣Turkey’s mediation efforts, featuring recent research papers by Dareen Khalifa and Berkay Mandıracı, as well as by Pınar Akpınar (@pinarakpinar) and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (@ahmeterdiozturk) 5⃣Turkey’s achievements at the latest NATO summit in Ankara, including an analysis by Ziya Öniş (@ZiyaOnis) and a commentary by Aaron Stein (@aaronstein1) Link:clmentplaisant.substack.com/p/this-weeks-r…

@Ebshoy_Mikhaeil @feydasayan @MKalousian Thank you very much for sharing this, Ebshoy. This was precisely my/our goal, but you did all the work. Huge congratulations again!

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian I think I would not have been able to finish my dissertation without attending the sessions of the group. So, thank you all for creating and sustaining such an inspiring space and supportive community.

@yunusunbabasi @feydasayan @MKalousian Thank you so much! I took a lot of inspiration from you and others in the Boğaziçi resistance movement. Solidarity

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian Congratulations!

@Ebshoy_Mikhaeil @feydasayan @MKalousian Thanks so much Ebshoy! I’m glad to have gotten to know your research through the group!

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian Congratulations 🎊. Such great news.

@MKalousian Thank you so much - I’m proudest of our group award! :)

@LiselHintz Congratulations 🎉🎉 And congratulations to us again 🥰

@OzgurOzdamar @feydasayan @MKalousian Çok teşekkürler hocam!

@LiselHintz @feydasayan @MKalousian Tebrikler hocam 👏

@RikioInouye @APSAtweets Thank you so much!

@APSAtweets @LiselHintz congratulations!!

Congratulations to the 2026 APSA Award Winners: buff.ly/4hWQ23b

1/ On the tenth anniversary of Turkey's 15 July coup attempt, @LiselHintz and I have published a GIGA Focus paper, "Epic Autocratisation: Turkey's Decade of Coup-Fuelled Transformation." Open access: doi.org/10.57671/gfme-…

@lcmporter I'm so, so sorry to hear this Lizzie. Çok çok geçmiş olsun. I had a milder scare in my 20s and also struggled with disordered eating, so the impacts were doubly "weighted" for me too. Mine was benign (but a part of it doesn't function somehow??). Wishing a smooth path for you.

This is something I never thought I would be writing. I have cancer. I was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer, after a routine check up ultrasound. I had no symptoms and no risk factors. I considered myself a healthy person, with a few of the rough edges that life and ageing draw. It has come as a terrible shock. Ever the journalist, today I got a second source confirmation of the diagnosis. The doctor’s office was academic, filled with studded leather sofas, abstract paintings and walls lined with medical tomes, including one on thyroid cancer illustrated with an Ottoman miniature of a throat surgeon wielding a scalpel. But it was his modern ultrasound machine that confirmed what doctors had already told me: a tumour on the right side of my thyroid. Part of me has tried to carry on living normally - working, seeing my friends and occasionally forgetting that I have been diagnosed. Another part of me has been crushed. I have had to research a topic I had no interest in becoming “expert” in. I have to accept that the future weeks hold surgery, seemingly unending visits to specialists, and after that a lifetime on thyroid hormone replacement drugs. I am worried about the long term. I am worried about possible impacts on my metabolism triggering a relapse into the anorexia that I worked so hard to beat. Even thinking about returning to that darkest of places starts to provoke a panic attack. I can beat cancer, but I don’t know if I have the strength in me to beat anorexia again. And yet another part of me has hope. The more I read about this subject, which until two weeks ago I had no reason to research, the more I realise I am not alone. Thyroid cancer diagnoses have shot up in recent years, especially in women of my age group, thanks to better diagnostic techniques. Some doctors call it the “best cancer” , which does feel slightly dismissive but also reflects the excellent prognosis and recovery rates. I am not the first person to go through this and I won’t be the last. I now feel like I am taking the deep breath before the plunge. The coming weeks are going to be tough. I’ll be taking some periods of time away from social media. But I am determined to get to a place where this is all one of my stories past.

Elected Istanbul mayor in 2019, and set to be a candidate for president in 2028, @ekrem_imamoglu is now the most famous resident of Silivri, Europe's largest prison complex. @kayagenc reports for @guardian on his trial, which could take 12 years. theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/…

@mayrukcouture @hakkitash How the government refers to it is indeed a big part of our argument

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Turkey's failed coup attempt. With @hakkitash, we unpack how the events of 15 July 2016 catalyzed a decade of "epic autocratization." Epic in scale, epic in the narrative of "destan" the AKP used to legitimize it. giga-hamburg.de/en/publication…

@aliyildizlegal @hakkitash Thank you so much for sharing, and for providing your own data collection!

Very important data from publication of @hakkitash and @LiselHintz

@pelinamus @hakkitash Thanks so much for your interest - and congrats on your JoD article!

@hakkitash @LiselHintz Congrats, looks very interesting!

Une très bonne étude de @LiselHintz et @hakkitash sur les conséquences politiques de la tentative de coup d'État de juillet 2016 en Turquie. Les auteurs parlent d"epic autocratisation" pour qualifier l'évolution du régime turc depuis ce moment "fondateur" : "The New Turkey is a regime of ironies. In the decade since 15 July 2016, it has purged to enlarge, turned a founding agenda of neoliberal privatisation into the largest public payroll in the Republic’s history, and deepened clientelism precisely when it had the least to spend. The coup attempt and its aftermath have been viewed, reasonably enough, through a lens of destruction: firings, suppression, and the hollowing of state institutions. Yet the period is best understood as a process of authoritarian construction advancing on two simultaneous, mutually reinforcing fronts: the coup attempt supplied the founding myth and discursive repertoire of the new state, creating a permissive environment in which securitisation became perpetual, while the institutional opening through which the state was remade became larger, more centralised, and more tightly bound to one man" giga-hamburg.de/en/publication…