This is America now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o... important words by @polgreen.bsky.social

If anyone's in need of a good holiday conversation starter -- may I interest you in Turkish oil wrestling? @theworld.org #shortfilm #wrestling www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6b...

We've been experimenting with video shorts at @theworld.org, and this one about Turkish oil wrestling was absolutely fascinating. (Film by Helene Franchineau, edits by Marta Franco) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6b...

Reporter @durriethekid.bsky.social explores the tradition and cultural significance of Turkish oil wrestling. Dating back to ancient civilizations, the Kırkpınar tournament sees roughly 800 participants cover themselves in two tons of olive oil over the course of a week.

English translation of a Haaretz article, asking Israelis why they don't see the parallels between starvation in Gaza and the Holocaust: robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal...

FMA condemns the killing last night of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military and stands in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, at least 178 of whom have been killed by Israel since the conflict began. Journalists are #NotATarget.

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador: • Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided • More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

The UN system is at a crossroads. It’s not just financial, although that’s a big part. It’s a crisis of mission, scope and purpose. The job losses are a symptom

A 20-year-old American citizen from Tampa was beaten to death by Israeli settlers on Friday while visiting family in the occupied West Bank www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

NEW: Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show @sofiacherici.bsky.social and @aylinlc.bsky.social in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Forest fires in southern Turkey continue, despite a week of firefighting efforts: Four missing, and two confirmed deaths including an excavator operator fighting the fires and an 81-year-old who died from smoke inhalation, @medyascope.tv reports: medyascope.tv/2025/07/03/i...

We're on @npr.org 's State of The World podcast today -- talking about Iran's postwar crackdown on dissent. My colleague who made this possible can't be named for their safety, but they're doing an incredible job sharing the voices of people in Iran right now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

For @NPR, my colleague and I spent the day speaking to Iranians about the government's post-war crackdown on dissent -- both those still inside the country and those who have left. www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

Good morning from Istanbul. Big fires in Turkey's south have prompted evacuations: www.reuters.com/business/env... Satellite data screenshot from Copernicus fire locator this morning

A very basic, very crucial point here. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-ar...

At least 51 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks. Israeli forces also injured 200 people after opening fire on the crowd. “It was a massacre,” one witness said, adding the soldiers continued firing on people as they fled from the area. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost

Israel launched a series of strikes against Iran targeting the country’s nuclear program and killing three of the nation’s security chiefs. The attack prompted fears that long-simmering tensions between the heavily armed rivals were spiraling into war. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/KDSG5hl

frm @mfaturkiyep.bsky.social "(The attacks).. during intensified negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, clearly indicates that the Netanyahu government is unwilling to resolve any issue through diplomatic means and does not hesitate to risk regional stability and global peace for its own interests"

Israeli strikes near aid site in the Gaza Strip kill 31, medics say – Middle East crisis live

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

Mid press-scrum on the Ukraine-Russia peace talks today, about an hour after I found out I’d been laid off due to budget cuts at @wgbh.org and @theworld.org We’re living through interesting times. Will miss covering it with some of the best people I’ve ever met.

Following Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul today, coming on the heels of a weekend full of drone attacks. Ukrainian delegation is asking for an unconditional ceasefire of at least 30 days, exchange of all prisoners of war, and the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia.

Wanted to explain another social media silence. Or maybe all of them – over the past six years of living in Turkey. www.durriebouscaren.com/post/on-prot...

This much we know -- the rise of autocracy will come for your right to speak first. If you stand for human rights at all, you have to be consistent.

Meanwhile, U.S. authorities appear to have revoked the visa of a Turkish Tufts student, Rümesya Öztürk, and imprisoned her 1600 miles away in Louisiana. For cowriting an opinion piece in a student paper asking her school to recognize genocide in Gaza. I'm floored. nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Turkish judge has just ruled for the release of seven journalists arrested for covering pro-democracy protests in Istanbul. Journalism is not a crime!!

I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients. My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered. Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

Police detain journalists covering protests: NOW reporter Ali Onur Tosun, photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, journo Zeynep Kuray, AFP's Yasin Akgül, journalist Hayri Tunç, IBB photojournalist Kurtuluş Arı, Sendika.org reporter Zişan Gür and photojournalist Murat Kocabaş in İzmir have been detained.

The arrest of @ekrem-imamoglu.bsky.social, mayor of Istanbul and a prominent rival of the president of Turkey, has set off pro-democracy protests across the country. That's despite a four-day ban on gatherings. So here are some notes, while we wait for him to go in front of a judge tonight.

For years, NPRmageddon has been this legendary Twitter feed that makes apocalypse-themed images of public radio people, I've secretly always wished they would find me but I wasn't really in a newsroom and i am HONORED you guys, thank you 😅❤️ (They don't have a BlueSky maalesef)

this is beautiful. www.noemamag.com/the-language...

PKK has declared ceasefire and announced that it would comply with Ocalan's statement. In line with the statements by its senior cadres in the last couple of weeks, the organisation asks for Ocalan's freedom so that he can lead and shape the process.

PKK just accepted Ocalan’s call for a ceasefire— apnews.com/article/pkk-...

Personal aside -- before I moved to Istanbul, my cholesterol was 308. I was 27 years old, and my doctor said I was a walking heart attack risk. After a year of living in TR, it was down to normal. My weight didn't change. The American diet is killing us. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

On The World 🌎 today: 🌐 @joyhackel.bsky.social: Israel, Hamas wary about ceasefire second phase 🌐 @ofmandaniel.bsky.social: A short history of US-Russia resets 🌐 @durriethekid.bsky.social: Imprisoned leader of the PKK calls for insurgency to 'dissolve' Tune in 📻 bit.ly/3xyRRfD

The great @heissenstat.bsky.social totally inspired our sahlep segment today, cheers my friend!

Any Turkish #egg experts on here? I want to know more about what cage-free laws mean for #birdflu outbreaks, where Turkey stands on this— and your very very best menemen recipes because best believe we’re going to the pazar this weekend for “research” 😘🐣 www.euronews.com/business/202...

#Turkey: IPI joins @mlsaturkey.org & 13 other orgs to call for immediate release of journalists @yildiztar.bsky.social , Elif Akgül, Ercüment Akdeniz & Ender İmrek, detained on Feb 18. Their lawyers were denied access, investigation is under a confidentiality order.👇 https://buff.ly/4hWOYXM

The first person I interviewed after the Oct. 7 attacks was Shiri's cousin. I'll never forget it. She told me that the Bibas family felt strongly about living so close to the border, despite the conflict, and hoped for a peaceful future. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

We have an update on a huge trial in Turkey, over a conspiracy to place newborns in ICU's with fake diagnoses, to bill insurers and families at higher rates. 46 defendants. 10 babies who appear to have died due to unnecessary or negligent care. @theworld.org

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

Trump Team Finds Loophole to Defy Spirit of Court Orders Blocking Spending Freezes Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

More journalists detained in Turkey — I’ve interviewed @yildiztar.bsky.social so many times he’s a friend. Always kind, measured, seeking truth and fairness in a world that is so rarely true and fair. Whoever ordered this should be ashamed.

A weekslong Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what historians and researchers say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. nyti.ms/3QkUV4P

Police in Azerbaijan appear to have made fake @Grindr profiles to entrap and extort gay and trans people for thousands of dollars. Local LGBT activists organized quickly and put an end to it, but @hrw's Rasha Younes tells us it's a worsening global trend: theworld.org/segments/202...