Getting to the endgame: - Turkey's opposition presidential candidate faces 2,352 years behind bars - Head prosecutor of Istanbul province applies for the closure of the main opposition party

After the opposition party won the Turkish Cypriot presidency, Devlet Bahçeli has called for: 1) The Turkish Cypriot parliament to no-confidence the president 2) Turkey to take the pseudo-state over

At least one of them is claiming they got dinged for anti-depressants. t24.com.tr/haber/deren-...

Turkish police mounted an operation where they randomly drug tested a load of actors and influencers... and 8 of them were apparently unlucky enough to have traces in their hair or blood.

So "government officials" got the regulators to approve the sale of big media companies to supposed criminals before all the latter's assets were seized. Convenient for their mates who wanted to sell the media companies.

Discreetly, the commission responsible for amending the constitution, composed solely of AKP members, met every week this summer. While the work could be completed in four months, some within the party are already calling for a referendum and general election to be held simultaneously.

Arrests at Istanbul Gold Refinery over "systematic" abuse of export subsidies to the tune of millions of US dollars www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/istanbul-alt...

The Mabel Matiz track he faces 4 years on obscenity grounds for is a banger m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTH...

Crackdown on Ankara municipality: more than a dozen people have been arrested over corruption allegations linked to concerts organized by the municipality in recent years -- btw, Ankara CHP mayor Mansur Yavaş even more popular and dangerous potential rival to Erdogan. kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...

A host of cartoonists at Turkey's LeMan magazine face up to 4 years 6 months in prison for "provoking the people to hate and emnity"

“If I can't dance I don't want to be in your [Islamic] revolution.” - Emma Goldman

How the anti-opposition court case sausage is made: www.patreon.com/posts/select... via @turkeyrecap.bsky.social

The Presidential Palace is asking for a 26% increase in its budget despite official inflation figures saying 16% should be fine

Former AKP MP Tayyar encourages the operation against big business Can Holding to increase in scope, in order to "clean out Turkey's bowels"

If you wonder how crazy the regime's assault on the opposition in Turkey see the table below listing the charges against various people. It's impossible to follow all of them but this is the point - politics gets lost in its design through judiciary. Ordinary people don't have time to follow them.

I mean, let's all honour a racist from thousands of miles away?

Holding group including large number of media outlets seized by Turkish prosecutors; 10 arrests of senior people there on charges of smuggling and organised crime.

Israel is willing to order air strikes inside Qatar, apparently. Would it dare do the same to Turkey?

This is great news! I hope Elizabeth is well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...

What the Turkish government is trying to do to the CHP is what they did with several independent media outlets: rather than simply destroying them, you take them over, like a vampire biting its victims, making them into slaves. I.e. Replace CHP's leadership with compliant quislings.

That makes it, what, the fifth? sixth? country Israel has decided it has a right to bomb since 10/7?

Good reporting here on current turmoil in Turkey

Part of an ongoing series of "Why doesn't Turkey have X?" Why doesn't Turkey have its own version of K-Pop? Prosecutors are trying to stop members of girl band Manifest leaving the country

Erdoğan's spokesman's son turns out to be a business genius, or at least talented at wealth accumulation

14 people detained over social media posts about police raid on Turkish opposition HQ in Istanbul

Erdoğan to opposition over the courts replacing some of their leadership: "Saying 'I don't recognise the court's decision' is openly challenging the rule of law."

Social media no longer throttled in Turkey after 21 hours

Kayyum olarak atanan Gürsel Tekin'in CHP İl Binası'na girmesi için gerçekleştirilen polis müdahalesinde yaralanan Mahmut Tanal hastanede tedavi altına alındı www.birgun.net/haber/mahmut...

Journos and CHP activists tweeting as they are detained by police this morning at the Istanbul CHP HQ

Turkey's main opposition party are literally having to fight police who want to physically replace the head of their Istanbul office: x.com/dokuz8haber/...

Barricades go up inside the CHP's Istanbul HQ!

Members of the main opposition party in Turkey, whose presidential candidate and dozens of mayors are in prison, cannot enter their own party building in Istanbul because tomorrow (Monday) the Istanbul branch of the party'll be taken over by a trustee appointed by the regime. Oligarchy in action!

As the AKP systematically removes the democratically elected opposition, the argument becomes "you have to obey the courts or you lose your democratic legitimacy"

This is what we are talking about when we say Erdogan is blocking the roads so people can’t go to oppo party HQ. This is one of the major arteries in central Istanbul, a city of 18 million.

Censorship machine being readied in Turkey. Broadcast "watchdog" RTÜK's boss warns about "wrong kind" of reporting. Expect penalties and blackouts

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters

Awful developments in Turkey tonight: police is blocking entry to main opposition party HQs in Istanbul. Roads also blocked. MPs and party officials waiting behind police barricade 😞

CHP HQ in Istanbul surrounded by police; 3-day ban on protest imposed on parts of Istanbul

An illustration of how the regime works in #Turkey : the CHP mayor of Beykoz, Alaattin Köseler, was re-arrested some 30 hours after his release. The public prosecutor overturned the court's decision in Köseler's favor by appealing to... another court. www.dw.com/tr/chpli-bey...

While the CHP has taken (legal) countermeasures in anticipation of a potential cancellation of its 38th ordinary congress, President Erdogan's advisor Mehmet Uçum described such practices as contrary to the rule of law, adding that the party was playing into the hands of the “imperialists".

I guess Bluesky agrees!

Best way to filter out pop culture is to wait and see what becomes popular enough for Erdoğan's advisors or ministers to condemn

This morning, opposition circles in Turkey are discussing the possibility of the Turkish courts preventively removing the CHP leadership before the hearing on 15 September (allegations of fraud on the 38th Congress), in order to avoid counter-measures by the party. yetkinreport.com/2025/09/05/a...