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Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Utterly enraging details in this podcast, but otherwise a typically brilliant telling of the story of Lise Meitner - by @… #WomenInSTEM
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/the-nazis-the-bomb-and-the-woman-that-science-forgot

#TGIQF: Der Newsticker am Ende des Mai
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Realised I never mentioned my wonderful husband, who keeps the home front running and without whom little of my field science would be possible.
Thankyou. You know who you are. #WomenInSTEM
#FieldworkDiary - what did we learn?
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/