Gulcan Saglam
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Senior Lecturer @UGA_SPIA #firstgen Ph.D. in CP/IR. Migration / Political Economy / Middle East / Turkish Politics. Views my own. Retweets ≠ endorsements
Atlanta, GA
Joined September 2010
By 2035, one in three Germans will be of retirement age. And the question of who will pay their pensions is sparking political turmoil in Berlin – even within the chancellor’s own party.
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BREAKING: President Trump suspends immigration from 'Third World', orders review of US green cards. Read more: https://t.co/rOseqm511S
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A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,
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If you want to understand why India has failed to industrialize, read this interview with Ha-Joon Chang in Frontline. Chang points out that India’s business and finance elites don't want industrialization — and that they need to be repressed for industrialization to occur.
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Opinion: There is nothing that China wants to import, nothing it does not believe it can make better and cheaper, nothing for which it wants to rely on foreigners a single day longer than it has to. https://t.co/CILu2Amre9
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The Chinese Communist Party’s latest campaign to squash pessimism and promote positivity has taken aim not at criticism of the government but rather at depictions of reality. In such a situation censorship can only mask the symptoms of economic gloom https://t.co/R6HUQ0YY4X
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"I'm temporarily considered German when I fit the image this society wants to project." Five years later, the same question still hurts: What does it take to belong in Germany?
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Once a Eurozone crisis casualty, Spain now ranks among the fastest-growing large developed economies. What can the other countries, including Germany, learn from the Spanish turnaround? #dwbusiness
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Women aren't only underpaid because they end up in less lucrative careers than men. Data on >25M people across 15 countries: Women make less than men in the same job—and that accounts for about half the overall gender pay gap. Equal work deserves equal pay. Full stop.
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Chinese military drills reveal that it is devising concrete plans to invade Taiwan, naval warfare experts say, and rehearsing new techniques aimed at speeding up beach landings of troops and equipment in a bid to overwhelm Taiwan’s defenders https://t.co/ltFnFrruyd
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BREAKING: U.S. draft peace proposal to end Ukraine war calls for ceding land to Russia and limiting the size of Ukraine's military.
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President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the war in Ukraine would cede territory to Russia and limit the size of Kyiv’s military, according to a draft proposal obtained by The Associated Press.
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The climate crisis is not gender-neutral. It deepens existing gender inequalities and threatens women’s: 👩🌾 Livelihoods 🚑 Health 🚨 Safety See how gender inequality links to climate change—and why women are key to #ClimateAction: https://t.co/xJCwTlotdp
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Attention IR students:
Human Rights Watch says Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 Palestinians from 3 camps in the occupied West Bank during “Operation Iron Wall”, calling it a war crime and urging investigations into senior officials, including PM Netanyahu. 🔗: https://t.co/y2iUWxn5ho | #Infograph
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Gaza’s sanitation collapses due to Israel’s genocide, with half of families using improvised toilets and 21% witnessing open defecation—a “public-health catastrophe,” warns UNICEF. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/3smaBwCdMr
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The US and Russia are believed to have drafted a new framework to end the Russia-Ukraine war, according to multiple international news outlets. Here's what we know so far about the plan, and what concessions Kyiv would have to make https://t.co/HjnWNYA4A8
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Palestinian Authority (PA) officials should be assassinated if progress is made on the recognition of Palestinian statehood as a result of a pending UN vote, says Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. 🔗: https://t.co/jLvWT82Upf
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Nations push for more ambition at halfway point of COP30 climate talks in Brazil.
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Israel urges the US to block Palestinian statehood ahead of a UN Security Council vote, angering hardliners after the US amended the resolution to gain support from countries in the Gaza stabilisation force https://t.co/xklnQNONM7
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Global leaders gathered in Brazil for COP30 to discuss ways to reduce global warming. Here’s how that can impact your life.
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While nations make deals with Trump in the short term, they’re preparing to move on for the long term.
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