"Trustee" opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu promises purges of "FETÖ" from CHP - from @aposto.com

TGRT Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu live veriyor :)

Why Trump's Iran War is screwing Turkey over more than most

Fallout continues following landmark ruling removing Turkey's main opposition party leadership

Scenes from Ankara. Police storm the CHP headquarters to remove Özgür Özel and his supporters from the building, following the court decision stripping him of the party leadership.

Özgür Özel, the leader of the opposition who is forcefully moved from his position as the party chair: "We won't back up from this way. From now on we will be on the streets, in the squares, and will organize the biggest campaign in Turkish politics."

This isn’t an internal battle over party leadership no matter how global media keeps framing it. Riot police stormed the CHP’s headquarters today, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party members and supporters gathered outside. This is state violence against Turkey’s main opposition party.

Bilgi University, one of Turkey's first private universities, which opened in the late 1990s, was shut down today by a presidential decree with no explanation. It was always a pleasure to visit there, fantastic students and faculty. This really hits hard for many.

Two “live” broadcasts. Only one shows Turkey’s ousted opposition leader addressing supporters on top of a bus in Ankara.

Say goodbye to the 'competitive' in Turkish competitive authoritarianism.

My 1994 symposium against Hutuphobia is drawing unwarranted criticism

Trump vs. the document he's talking about

The real surprise is not that Trump is the target of so many insane assassination attempts but that Obama managed to largely avoid things ever getting to this stage.

What happens when you export your targeted murder programme to the French sphere of influence, rather than your free-fire death zone of unhumans who can be killed for fun, with total impunity.

No tax for 20 years for those with income from overseas moving to Turkey: halktv.com.tr/ekonomi/turk...

Turkey announces zero tax rate on providing engineering and software services to foreign buyers

Useful FA piece from Mid March on mines. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/hormuz-...

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack suggested Israel should adopt a monarchy system like Islamic countries, calling it "what's worked best in this region" rather than democracy. He made these comments at the Doha Forum in Qatar.

Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this. At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government. Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Coverage of Iran War negotiations surprisingly silent on the US and Israel having recently killed the wife, mother, father, son, sister and other family of the man they're negotiating with

AKP grandee Mehmet Metiner reportedly has his US visa rejected on grounds of "not enough ties to Turkey". Either they have decided to reject on political grounds as a critic of the US, or they have pattern-matched on fleeing Gulenists who never returned. www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/siyaset/akp-...

Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we won’t economist.com/leaders/2026...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Had to do this. It isn't only his followers who have derangement syndrome

America is losing a talented researcher today. Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

Some sad anti-Atatürk individual has used AI to create a fake picture of him bowing to the British King www.malumatfurus.org/ataturk-ingi...

Unusual in Turkey: Yesterday a school shooting in Urfa where a 19-year-old wounded 16, today one in Maraş where a 14-year-old killed 9 and wounded 13 t24.com.tr/video/sanliu... t24.com.tr/gundem/kahra...

Shot/chaser

Davutoğlu could never

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

Found Suleiman the Magnificent's alt:

Erdoğan and Netanyahu in war of words www.firstpost.com/world/ankara...

Following the stunning success of Peter Magyar, the time has surely come for Ahmet Türk

Meanwhile, another leader of the main opposition CHP detained in Turkey.

Great news on the Orban front!

There are a series of tropes from the Dark Ages to the present day that have been used by their Christian neighbours to demonise Jews and justify their murder and the dispossession of their property, culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust.

Dolmuş cat will make your day better www.instagram.com/p/DW7Hb9Vjrqf

A comedian was detained for making an off-color joke about Suleiman II, who died in 1691, and is unlikely to be offended at this late date.

SON DAKİKA | İmamoğlu’na bir soruşturma daha! Savunmasında kullandığı bu sözler yüzünden... halktv.com.tr/gundem/son-d...

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...