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Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 3d

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 5d

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...

İstanbul Altın Rafinerisi'ne dev operasyon! Çok sayıda gözaltı var...

İstanbul Altın Rafinerisi A.Ş. ve bağlı şirketlere operasyon düzenlendi. 21 kişi gözaltına alındı.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 7d

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized | CNN

Israel’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 7d

The Mabel Matiz track he faces 4 years on obscenity grounds for is a banger

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTH...

Mabel Matiz - Perperişan feat. Ko Shin Moon

YouTube video by mabelmatiz

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Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social · 18d

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...

Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'ne konser operasyonu: 13 kişi gözaltına alındı

Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin 2021-2024 yılları arasında düzenlediği 32 konserle ilgili operasyon başlatıldı. 13 kişinin gözaltına alındığı belirtildi.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 18d

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 23d

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"

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 25d

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

Tele1 TV @tele1comtr.bsky.social · 25d

Isparta Valiliği'nden fuardaki dansa soruşturma

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Isparta Valiliği'nden fuardaki dansa soruşturma

Isparta Valiliği, Motor ve Otomobil Sporları Modifiye Fuarı'nda yapılan ve sosyal medyada tepki çeken dans gösterisi ile soruşturma başlatıldığını duyurdu.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 26d

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

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 27d

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

Halk TV @halktvcomtr.bsky.social · 27d

AKP'nin enflasyon hedefine Saray'da inanmadı!

🟥 10 puan daha ekledi...

halktv.com.tr/ekonomi/akpn...

AKP'nin enflasyon hedefine Saray'da inanmadı! 10 puan daha ekledi

AYRINTILAR halktv.com.tr'DE

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 28d

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

T24 @t24.com.tr · 28d

AKP'li Şamil Tayyar: Can Holding operasyonunun devamı gelirse Türkiye bağırsaklarını temizler
t24.com.tr/haber/akp-li...

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · Sep 11

The table need to be updating, but the mayor of Istanbul is already facing several legal proceedings. From memory, between 2019 and 2023 alone, he has been the subject of more than 80 investigations.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 29d

But if violence becomes the chief criticism it misses the wood for the trees in my mind. Early years Nelson Mandela was a lot more violent than Kirk but for better reasons

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 29d

I mean, he was a peaceful activist who was assassinated but it's only if you really think ideology has no moral character that that makes him Martin Luther King.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 29d

Some Europeans were probably even white enough to meet his exacting standards

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 29d

According to the sources who spoke with the Lebanese newspaper al Akhbar, "Netanyahu’s government chose to act in Qatar out of the belief that the Trump administration could handle the issue with Qatar, unlike with Turkey, because of its NATO membership".

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 29d

Allegedly the Israeli government considered an airstrike against Hamas' leadership bureau in Ankara, Turkey before scrapping it and moving forward with an attack instead on Doha, Qatar.

Report: Israel struck Hamas in Qatar after ditching similar operation in NATO member Turkey

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www.timesofisrael.com

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

Halk TV @halktvcomtr.bsky.social · Sep 11

Habertürk, Show TV ve Bloomberg HT'ye kayyum atandı

AYRINTILAR halktv.com.tr'DE

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Kısa Dalga @kisadalgamedya.bsky.social · Sep 9

👉 Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, Katar Emiri ile görüştü

Erdoğan görüşmede, İsrail’in bölgedeki çatışma, gerilim ve istikrarsızlığı derinleştirmeyi amaçlayan, dost ve müttefik Katar’ın egemenliğini de açıkça ihlal eden saldırısını lanetlediğini ifade etti.

kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...

Erdoğan, Katar Emiri ile görüştü: İsrail'in Katar'a saldırısını lanetliyorum

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan görüşmede, İsrail’in bölgedeki çatışma, gerilim ve istikrarsızlığı derinleştirmeyi amaçlayan ve Katar’ın egemenliğini de ihlal eden saldırısını lanetlediğini söyledi.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is great news! I hope Elizabeth is well.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...

Princeton Student Held by Iran-Backed Militia Is Released, Trump Says

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Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Sep 9

An Israeli official tells Barak Ravid that this was an attempt of a targeted killing against a Hamas official.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Sep 9

BREAKING via Reuters

Several blasts were heard in Qatar's Doha on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses said.

Smoke was seen rising over the Katara District in the capital, an eyewitness said.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good reporting here on current turmoil in Turkey

Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social · Sep 9

“This blockade is not just against the CHP’s building, it is a blockade of the whole Turkish Republic," said Tülay Özbay at Monday's protest.

@daniel-b-thorpe.bsky.social reports on the siege of Turkey's opposition with comments by @berkesen.bsky.social on what might come next:

Inside the violent clashes for CHP’s Istanbul headquarters

ISTANBUL — The Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul headquarters is in an unlikely place, on the edge of town, surrounded by high-rise residential buildings, shopping malls and large motorways.

www.turkeyrecap.com

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