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Nick Ashdown

11 months

I spoke to @ilker_ayturk @bdincaslan1 & @SelimKoru in my #longform reported essay about the assassination of #SinanAte ş and the history, resurgence, and splintering of Turkey's ultranationalist movement. #SinanAte şİçinAdalet #longreads @longreads

New Lines Magazine

@newlinesmag

11 months

NEW: The assassination of the nationalist leader Sinan Ates in Ankara last year and its fallout reflect the bloody rise and fracturing of Turkey’s ultranationalist movement, writes @Nick_Ashdown .

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1 year

At 12:50, when Erdoğan calls the entire opposition a bunch of gays for 45 seconds, the translator just stops speaking, and doesn't translate a single word of it. Why would they do that??

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Erdogan’s full victory speech, translated by Aljazeera English.

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6 years

You are a disgrace to journalism.

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#BREAKING : Turkey re-elects Recep Tayyip Erdogan as president of the country in the new system. #TurkeyElections

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6 years

I love watching Turkish people struggle to find equivalents of kolay gelsin, geçmiş olsun, vs in foreign languages when they're abroad, and panicking/hating themselves when they realize there never are (are there?) and having to resort to an awkward polite smile.

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Turkish wife requests. I’m gonna be like a teyze on the plane back to Brussels with all this meyve 🧿

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2 months

Sertab Erener at Eurovision. Turkey come back! ❤️ 🧿 🇪🇺

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1 year

Sorry to bother you @profdws , but a PhD student at the @SSI_Exeter where you're director made an extraordinarily hateful comment targeting a persecuted minority in Turkey, and celebrated acts of mass violence against them. He's also bullying colleages and calling them 'infidel.'

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7 years

Turkey is weird.

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7 years

Ülkü Ocakları yanıyor!

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5 years

Ah Istanbul...

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4 years

Türkiye'ye taşındığımda bu ülkede doğru düzgün yabancı bile yoktu.

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4 years

İlk romanımı yazdığımda bu ülkede doğru düzgün roman yazılmamıştı.

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7 years

Turkish hipsters - "OMG, don't put sugar into your tea, that's so bad for you! And, ew, you eat meat?!" *lights up cigarette*

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5 years

Even foreign TV networks are following the news, but not Turkish ones!

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5 years

Ulusal haber kanalları Ekrem İmamoğlu'na mazbata görüntülerini vermezken, uluslararası haber kanalı France24 haberi canlı yayında duyurdu.

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1 year

This has been just a devastating decade in Turkey. Today's horrors are very much intertwined with the overall political situation, since massive corruption has led to shoddy construction, stolen earthquake funds, minimum preparations for the inevitable, and an economy in tatters.

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3 years

Journalist Muharrem Sarıkaya slaps fellow reporter Ahmet Demir during an interview of Gaziantep mayor Fatma Şahin (AKP). The complete lack of response from Şahin or anyone else around shows you how normalized this kind of abuse and bullying are in the workplace in Turkey.

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3 years

Burada tokattan sonra olanlar var. Saldırıdan sonraki tavırları da garip. Hiç bir şey yokmuş gibi konuşmaya devam etmeleri de tuhaf.

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3 years

Seven years ago I saw the authoritarian descent Turkey was going down, but I never could have imagined the *physical destruction*. Hasankeyf, Sur, Cizre, Beyoğlu, TOKİ, concrete, mines, mucilage, wildfires. My god. It will take generations to heal, if anyone even tries.

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Nick Ashdown

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7 years

Anyone in tight with this neighborhood of Tarlabaşı? It's likely where my stolen phone is.

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7 years

Is it just me or is bamya ayıklamak basically circumcision?

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1 year

📌20.04.2023 Kamuoyuna saygı ile duyururuz.

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1 year

Between al Jazeera trying to make Erdoğan more palatable, to Middle East Eye openly endorsing him, it's a sad media landscape for outlets focusing on the Middle East. Again, I have to say thank goodness for New Lines.

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7 years

Pakistanization of Turkey, Turkification of US.

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4 years

What kind of psycho would actually choose yoğurtsuz or sarımsaksız? I'm offended by the question.

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4 years

67 people detained for asking how their taxes are spent?

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4 years

@bekirgne2 @atheistalliance @AtheistRepublic @Ateizm_Dernegi @gazetegunisigi @sverdlov_e In the aftermath of Elazığ earthquake, lawsuits were filed to those posting the statement of Minister Soylu and asking "Where did the earthquake taxes go?". It is reported that 67 people were detained.

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5 years

“Sistem yok.” “Çok uzaktan geldik, bekleyeceğiz.” “Bir haftadır yok. Şu anda kaos var.” If I ever write a book about Turkey it’ll be called Sistem Yok.

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Nick Ashdown

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8 years

Thanks for your thoughtful Facebook message Sıtkı abi. I shall add it to the collection.

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8 years

Turkish friends: "The sad thing is everyone expected this. This is the new normal."

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3 months

So, so nice to finally see so many people in Turkey happy (and not in a vengeful way!) ❤️

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3 months

This is normally one of the busiest streets of #Istanbul - Bagdat caddesi Tonight it’s busy with Turks celebrating

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1 year

Clear-cut case of hate speech and glorifying mass violence against a persecuted minority. I know that editors at all these outlets follow me on Twitter. I don't like pile-ons, but I'll make an exception in this case...

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1 year

This is the worst article I've read on Turkish politics in years. "It's true that Erdogan has engaged in suppressing the free press, jailed journalists and his opposition," but don't call him authoritarian, because...something something Hunter Biden's laptop. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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1 year

Stop calling Erdogan a dictator. Dictators don't go to runoffs

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6 years

I swear fruit & vegetable sellers in Istanbul stay open later than nightclubs in Canada...

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3 years

Sometimes people ask me if I miss Turkish food in Brussels...

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4 years

When your kayınvalide comes to visit 😍🧿. (Bal, kaymak, börek, yumurta, tavuk çorbası, sarma, peynir) #TheresMoreInTheFreezer

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1 year

I mean seriously.

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3 years

I've wanted to write a story about Turkish names for many years now, and I finally did it, for @newlinesmag ! Special thanks to @fmturkoz , and all of the many people who told me their fascinating name stories!

What’s in a Turkish Name?

The fraught and funny world of Turkish nomenclature

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6 years

A lot of passive aggressive “Kardeşim” being thrown around.

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2 months

Says the government-appointed (despite a 95% vote of no confidence) head of Turkey's foremost university, where student protesters have been arrested and professors have been holding a protest vigil every day for 1208 days.

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2 months

We are deeply saddened by the arrest of Emory's Department Chair of Philosophy. This troubling incident not only raises serious concerns about the state of academic freedom but also casts a shadow over the reputation of respected academic institutions. We stand in solidarity with

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

Historic statement from KK, talking openly about his Alevi background, something he’s very rarely done in the past. A huge deal from a major politician, breaking a big taboo and taking ownership of his identity (which Erdoğan tries to throw in is face).

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1 year

Alevi.

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4 years

New Zealand and Iceland should jointly run the world. Discuss.

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5 years

What in the hell am I looking at? 😱 @CirkinIstanbul

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6 years

Canada: “Oh my god it’s 20 degrees, crank up the air conditioning before we all melt!” Turkey: “It’s 35 degrees, can we at least open a window?” “God no, do you want to catch a cold and die?!”

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4 years

People are talking about refugees like they're Coronavirus.

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7 years

Tinder in Turkey.

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1 year

Only in Turkey can an 84% turnout be described as "voter apathy."

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1 year

@patyale Maybe, but it's incredibly problematic journalistically, and I can't help but wonder if their editors Qatar have something to do with it. There are still very good freelance journalists writing good stories about Turkey for al Jazeera, but the editorial stance is questionable.

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4 years

Workers tell Erdoğan about their severe economic problems in the midst of a years-long crisis. “We can’t bring bread home.” His response: “You’re exaggerating...Drink some tea,” throwing a sac of tea at them.

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4 years

'Eve ekmek götüremiyoruz' diyen esnafa Erdoğan'dan yanıt: Bu biraz bana abartılı geldi. Çok abartılı geldi. Al bu keyif çayını iç

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7 years

Oğlum I don't make a TRT salary, I'm a freelancer, could never afford Cihangir. Yüzde yüz Kurtuluşluyum, 475 TL veriyorum 😘 @MucahidDurmaz

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

I'm sorry, this is completely unacceptable, and reporting it to Twitter does nothing. Does anyone know who this guy's dissertation advisor at Exeter is?

Nick Ashdown

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1 year

Clear-cut case of hate speech and glorifying mass violence against a persecuted minority. I know that editors at all these outlets follow me on Twitter. I don't like pile-ons, but I'll make an exception in this case...

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1 year

Today marks the centenary of the devastating Greek-Turkish forced "population exchange" (often spoken of in Greek simply as the Catastrophe).

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5 years

Teyze: “Beyin yabancı mı?” “Yabancı.” “Olsun.” #K öyHayatı

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4 years

New Turkish Netflix show Bir Başkadır (Ethos) seems super good so far. Maybe even Şahsiyet level good!

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4 years

Sosyal mesafe bankı.

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Nick Ashdown

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5 years

Turkish coffee is superior to Balkan coffee and Turkish tea trumps them both, but I must say, Balkan burek is better than Turkish börek. #StartingAWar

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

This isn't that different from calling Jewish people a cult and praising Nazis. For context:

Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן

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1 year

Hate for Alevis and other non-traditional Islamic sects runs deep among some. "May the mere memory of Sultan Selim keep your cult from power" is a reference to the massacre of Alevis by Sultan Selim. For a "British-Iraqi" to spread such hate is appalling. Much less a journalist.

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Nick Ashdown

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3 years

Welcome to Turkey, where even stray dogs are politicized.

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

My favourite KK headline so far

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Nick Ashdown

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1 month

Meyve mission accomplished. Erik is hoping for a better future in Europe. #DiasporaFruit

Nick Ashdown

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1 month

Turkish wife requests. I’m gonna be like a teyze on the plane back to Brussels with all this meyve 🧿

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5 years

Turkish people: İyi eğlenceler 🤣👍🏻

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4 years

Dolphins in the Bosphorus 🐬🌊

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4 years

🐬İstanbul Eminönü'nde Galata Köprüsü'nün hemen yanında yunuslar göründü.

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6 years

Soon they're just going to start replacing photos of women with 1990s Nintendo graphics...

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6 years

Yalnız yaşayan kadın evinde ölü bulundu

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

If you're a student at @UniofExeter , you can make a formal complaint here (the email address is studentcases @exeter .ac.uk):

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1 year

Zorlukla yetişmeye çalışıyorum ama henüz 14. bölümdeyim 😫. The episodes are 2.5 hours yahu! Bir sürü dini vocab öğreniyorum ama, hamdolsun.

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1 year

Nerede kalmıştık? #K ızılcıkŞerbeti geliyor!🔥 Yeni bölümümüzle cuma 20.00’de @ShowTV ’deyiz.

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1 year

I know that Turks & Syrians abroad, whether their loved ones are in the earthquake zone or not, are going through an indescribable trauma right now, while the rest of the world simply moves on. Please be there for your Turkish and Syrian friends and colleagues. As I wrote on FB:

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1 year

I am not well. Any friend of yours who has the slightest connection to Turkey or Syria is not well. I witnessed the quake in 1999 firsthand (where 40000 people died). We anticipated another big one, although attention was focussed on the Marmara region. Hurts so much to be away

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9 months

Turkish attacks on civilian targets in Syria getting very little coverage.

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9 months

I am here in NE #Syria to see how the community is doing after 200+ airstrikes from #Turkey targeting water & electrical plants, schools, hospitals & other critical civilian infrastructure. As you can see, they destroyed this electrical plant. Because of bombings like this, over

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Nick Ashdown

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5 years

This isn't getting any coverage in English, but a lot of people in Turkey are following the first hearing today of the trial of the men accused of raping and murdering #ŞuleÇet last year. BBC Türkçe as usual giving excellent coverage.

BBC News Türkçe

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5 years

Şule Çet davası: Sanık Çağatay Aksu beraatini istedi

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5 years

Eşimle çok gurur duyuyorum. İnşallah on yıl sonra Kanada'nın başbakanı olacak 😍 #ozgeCAN 👊🏻

Özgecan Kara 🏳️‍🌈

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5 years

Yerel seçimlere bir seçim de benden: Bugün itibariyle resmen Avrupa Genç Yeşilleri’nin Genel Sekreteri adayıyım. Daha adil, eşit, yeşil ve feminist bir dünya için oylar 👉🏼 #ozgeCAN 💚

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3 years

Protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention in Brussels. #istanbulsozlesmesiyasatir

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6 years

This is based on a "news" agency that is essentially a branch of the ruling party, which you might want to mention in your tweet...

The Associated Press

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6 years

BREAKING: Turkish president Erdogan is winning re-election with 56.5 percent of the vote and more than half of ballots counted.

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5 years

Westerners when I tell them I’m moving from Belgrade/Istanbul to Brussels: “Oh...Well, hopefully it won’t be too terrible. Hopefully you’ll still be able to come to Istanbul a lot. Geçmiş olsun.” Turks: “Oh wow, congrats, finally you’ll live in a normal, civilized country!”

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6 years

Conversation between my wife and I exemplifies one of the basic differences between Canadian and Turkish mentalities: Me: "I assume good intentions unless I see evidence otherwise." Her: "I assume bad intentions unless I see evidence otherwise." 🇨🇦💕🇹🇷

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8 years

Even VPN company's websites are blocked in Turkey. Surely it's one of the most cyber-restricted countries on earth now.

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5 years

I've been wanting to tweet all day "How on earth are so many people confusing an obvious dish-washing brush for a toilet brush??" but I think this is the most doğru tespit (that a lot of men have never cleaned a toilet in their lives):

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6 years

"We hate the West. We hate the West. We hate the West." "OMG OMG a Western publication mentioned us!!!"

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Yeni Safak, a pro-government Turkish newspaper notorious for fabricating stories leads with the headline: " the world talked about Yeni Safak" listing all the media outlets that attributed to their report detailing the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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Nick Ashdown

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5 years

Going through some of my old online Turkish learning materials. Here are some of the most useful/creative: Learning through popular songs: Through podcasts: Through an interactive graphic novel:

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Nick Ashdown

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9 months

I saw Bernie Sanders in Brussels last night and he roundly condemned both Hamas' violence and the brutality of the Israeli occupation, something many European leftists don't seem able to do.

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9 months

Bernie Sanders in #Brussels over de toestand in #Gaza . @SenSanders @BozarBrussels

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1 year

With both hands tied behind it’s back, dragging a ball and chain, and a sharpshooter firing at their heels, I think the opposition did an incredible job against an opponent on steroids with a hundred meter head start, who owns the stadium.

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Nick Ashdown

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5 years

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time the police have attacked the Women's March. It was almost the last major non-government aligned march that police generally didn't touch (protests are more or less illegal in Turkey).

dokuz8NEWS

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5 years

Moment of police intervention against 17th Feminist Night March in Istanbul on #WomensDay . #IWD #dokuz8 / @ewrano

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Nick Ashdown

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3 years

Credit @aahsocute

Hatice Yıldız

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3 years

So turns out over 50 million boxes of anti depressant medications were sold in Turkey in 2020 (a significant hike from previous years’ numbers). Many factors could be at play but to me it also indicates that mental health is not just personal; it is deeply political and social +

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4 years

Çok güzel. İyi eğlenciler gençler! 👴🏼👵🏼❤️

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4 years

Both my maternal grandparents were born in villages in Ukraine and left as refugees. My grandfather spoke 13 languages and became a theology prof after working on railroad tracks in Winnipeg. My grandmother speaks 5 languages, had 3 kids, several jobs, and just turned 95 ♥️🇺🇦🇨🇦

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Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong.

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5 years

During my 1st year or two in Turkey I always wondered why people get so angry so easily. By my 3rd/4th year, I was one of those people...It's the crowdedness, traffic, noise, summer heat, Ramadan fasting, bureaucracy, neighbourhood/work/family pressure. Still amazing to live in!

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1 year

@WhiteJennyB Yes, but there was a 45 second silence between them when Erdoğan went on a rant against LGBTciler and neither of them translated what he said.

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5 years

Yeni Taksim.

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5 years

Doğru ☺️

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5 years

Kanadalılar yerleri tekmeliyo kıskançlıktan

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6 years

And I almost forgot eline/kalemine/emeğine sağlık...

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6 years

A train from Istanbul, plane from Batumi, and plane from Winnipeg will soon converge in Ankara for a very special (and inşallah small) nikah. #Yabanc ıDamat

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4 years

Turkey apparently has the highest number of intensive care beds/capita in the world:

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6 years

It cannot be overstated how emotional and personal these elections are. They have the potential to change millions of people’s everyday lives. Everybody’s stomach in knots.

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Nick Ashdown

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1 year

I find it misleading when people describe elections in Tr as "free but unfair." They're not really free. HDP leadership in jail, İmamoğlu quite possibly on his way to join them, voter suppression in southeast, pressure on YSK, gov't threatening to not accept opposition win.

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1 year

“This is the real story of the Turkish elections – an opposition set up to fail.”

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7 years

Cihangir. #OnurY ürüyüşü

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1 year

As the official death toll passes 25,000, AKP ministers jostle over who appears on camera.

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1 year

📌 Nureddin Nebati ve Binali Yıldırım'ın kamera açısına girme yarışı, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın da dikkatini dağıttı.

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5 years

Today is the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

Balkan TJ (BIRN)

@BIRN_BTJ

5 years

This is what life in Srebrenica was like before it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995:

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

6 years

Funny anecdote about Geçmiş olsun - if you go to a hospital in Turkey, you'll hear it - I shit you not - literally dozens if not a hundred times a day. Every. Single. Person. Says it to you. Every. Single. Day. It's actually really nice 😀

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

1 year

If the opposition manages to oust an autocrat who's been consolidating his autocracy for over two decades, democratic movements and democracy scholars all over the world will be studying Turkey for years if not decades to come.

Ziya Meral

@Ziya_Meral

1 year

For me: Turkish voters are showing an inspiring lesson to many across the world including in Europe and North America: democratic resilience against all the odds, owning of democratic processes and not giving into apathy or undermining democratic mechanisms

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

4 years

I'm making a list of historical minorities in Turkey. Have I missed any?

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

2 years

Turkish opposition supporters rightly inspired by Lula's win (after being disheartened by opposition defeat in Hungary), but I fear they face a much steeper path, with more entrenched authoritarianism and no real equivalent of Lula.

Kemal Büyükyüksel

@KBuyukyuksel

2 years

Tüm dünyanın gözünün nasıl Brezilya ve Lula’ya kilitlendiğini gördünüz. Açık şekilde söyleyeyim, Türkiye’ye daha da çok kilitlenecek dünya. Buradaki hikayenin küresel olarak ne ifade ettiğini halen anlamayanlar var. Muhalefet ne kadar büyük bir sorumluluğu sırtlandığını anlamalı.

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

2 years

Europe: we will never buy Russian gas again. Turkey: let’s build a gigantic, costly gas hub to sell Russian gas to Europe while our country goes bankrupt.

Fulya Özerkan

@FulyaOzerkan

2 years

#France snubs Putin's proposal to build a new gas hub in #Turkey to supply Europe, saying it made "no sense". @AFP

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

6 years

So the Turkish government must either concede that it released a "terrorist" today, or held an innocent man for a year.

ilhan tanir

@WashingtonPoint

6 years

Turkish Pres Erdogan only few months ago says ‘’we have footage showing Deniz Yücel has links to PKK’’ and accuses him as ‘spy’ and saying no way to release him as long as he is the president. And this is the video of the interview. Appalling:

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

6 years

Bye Ankara, thanks for the memories. Ankara’da aşk başkadır. #JustMarried #Yabanc ıDamat #YouGuysGetOnePhoto

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

5 years

Sad announcement: I'll be leaving Belgrade for good tomorrow, off to Istanbul for the summer and likely Brussels after that. Belgrade is by far the friendliest, easiest, safest city I've ever lived in, and I depart with a heavy heart.

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

6 years

Two teyzes loudly eating çekirdek and calling everyone canım. #TurkishFlight

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

6 years

Vatanım 😀

Gezegen ve İnsan

@gezegenveinsan

6 years

Kanada'da bir metro istasyonunda turnike bozuldu. Çevrede de güvenlik veya görevli yoktu. Ama insanlar parasını bozuk turnikenin köşesine bırakıp geçtiler.

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Nick Ashdown

@Nick_Ashdown

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"Turkey is already on track to becoming the biggest seller of the artillery shells to the US as early as this year...Production lines of Turkish defense firm Repkon are expected to produce some 30% of all US-made 155mm artillery shells by 2025."

US Turns to Turkey for Explosives as War in Ukraine Saps Supply

The US is in talks to ramp up purchases of explosives from Turkey to boost production of artillery shells as allies scramble to ship badly needed ammunition to Ukraine.

www.bloomberg.com

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