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Now they're coming for the newsrooms made up of creepily similar good-looking people

Israel continues to demolish the homes of more than 600,000 people in Lebanon, because Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide is what they do. Can you imagine the outrage if this was being done to Israel? But Israel does it. Complete SILENCE.

The mayor of Turkey's fourth largest city is thrown out by government decree, joining the mayor of Turkey's largest city

The Turkish government have introduced a bill to force people to enter their ID card numbers when using social media platforms. But what if users just claim to be from another country?

My pitch for the next Alan Partridge show is when he blags his way onto TRTWorld or PressTV or RT or alJaz as a host for a current affairs chat show and has to move to a hotel in Dubai or Ankara and say things like "and how will that play among the Druze?" or "but Türkiye is a major player".

If I wanted more help from my allies, I simply would not have threatened to annex the territory of an ally at the start of the year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After 24 years!

And Türkiye through to the World Cup!

Mayor of Turkey's 4th largest city arrested as probe against opposition continues

This is... raising the bar www.trumplibrary.org

When your call for invading the neighbours literally uses the CIA's map

People turned up in Turkey’s Kadıköy in the rain yesterday to protest the jailing of journalists İsmail Arı, Alican Uludağ, and many others. Demonstrators were met with a police barricade. Turkey ranked 159 out of 180 in 2025 RSF press freedom index. www.birgun.net/haber/no-bar...

*Mehter march intensifies*

US/Israel now bombing university campuses — the same places that were the sites of anti-regime protests a few weeks ago. And I wonder what provosts and deans of US universities on Qatar and the UAE are thinking this morning

"America and Israel's order is not the world order. Targeting innocent people and murdering 165 girls in an attack on a school is a crime against humanity" - Turkish opposition leader Özgür Özel

The ethnic cleansing may no longer stop at the border

Corruption is God's way of teaching Turkish politicians about Luxembourgish geography (and how flag-of-convenience maritime registries work)

President Erdogan hits out at the Turkish opposition for making noise about the show trial of their presidential candidate at a time when the Middle East is descending into war

Today in Istanbul... thousands have gathered to demand jailed opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu to be released, exactly a year after his detention. This week he's appeared at court together with more than 400 other defendants, charged of corruption in a trial seen as political by Turkish opposition.

The relevant authorities in Damascus cited "complaints and requests of the local community" as the basis for their decision to ban or restrict alcohol sales. In contrast, the local community's complaints about high living costs and rising prices were brushed aside.

Incidentally, this article implicitly acknowledges that Israeli rhetoric about freeing Gaza from Hamas was actually bullshit

Former Qatari PM statement is like realizing Erbakan’s dream: “In addition to forming military and security alliances with Turkey and Pakistan, the GCC members must create an effective military security alliance akin to NATO, in which Saudi Arabia plays the most important role as the largest state.”

My gosh. The Israeli Defense Minister also openly says here that the role of the Israeli military's legal system is "to protect and safeguard" soldiers — not to hold them accountable, for instance, when they rape someone on camera:

Jews are not responsible for the far-right ethnic cleansing being unleashed by Israel on the region. Only extremist anti-semites and Zionists say otherwise.

Actually good Türkiye discourse - "Screw it, let's add ü to English" "Where's the reciprocity?" "What about English words like anti-Müllerian hormone?"

Excellent thread on what is at stake as Istanbul's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, stands trial in Turkey.

Good to know that Iran depends only for a few percent on desalination while most Gulf states get about 90% from it. A desalination war is not a thing you want to do with Iran.

Washington politicians not beating the "easily manipulated on foreign policy by cults" charges

A more interesting question is why the WSJ doesn't check that its op-ed sources actually exist in a meaningful way (like a website)

The subset of the Israeli lobby in North America which has now shifted its focus from Iran to Turkey is ultimately doing its cause a severe disfavour

Israeli army just ordered all of Dahiyeh residents to evacuate. Yesterday the entire south, now all of Dahiyeh (Beirut's southern suburbs). Still have yet to see comments on proportionality from the international community. Macron asked Israel not to launch ground invasion but seems too late

❗️NATO air and missile defense forces in the Eastern Mediterranean intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile that crossed Iraqi and Syrian airspace before entering Turkish airspace, Turkey's Defense Ministry said. Debris fell in Hatay province with no casualties. #NATO

Turkey's main opposition leader excoriates the ruling AKP for "always siding with Trump"

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Turkey is basically keeping its head down (and the borders open), probably lobbying behind the scenes to try to avoid a mass movement of Iranians and Afghans towards the border www.bosphorusnews.com/article/turk...

Erdoğan condemns attacks on Iran

Context: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Trump setting a clear precedent that killing or kidnapping world leaders you dislike is a legitimate action

Turkey not allowing use of its airspace apparently

Türkiye has quietly been staging a drastic economic comeback, and much of the credit has to go to President Erdoğan for being willing to keep firing the state's chief statisticians until he found the right fit

We're at the "invent fictional history where our hero massacres Jewish spies" stage

Free the OnlyFans 17! (17 Turkish models have been arrested for posing on the platform)

CHP leader says there was an attempt by the AKP to buy the loyalty of Ankaragücü fan group leaders by offering them property: www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/siyaset/anka...

Both my Iranian and American friends at the moment trying to blow the whistle on the treatment of peaceful protestors

There are people in America being killed at protests for doing the right thing and standing up for their friends and neighbours. Difficult to add anything to that from so far away.