Karabekir Akkoyunlu
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Karabekir Akkoyunlu
@karabekir.bsky.social
Researcher at SOAS • Autocratisation and Militarisation • Turkey • Iran • Brazil • Author of "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey" (EUP 2024) • https://www.karabekir.net/
Same bloody script for every country in the Middle East!
June 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Waging an endless war is Netanyahu's "blood gambit".

He'll gladly watch the world burn if that's what it takes to stay in power. @yusufsarfati.bsky.social and I wrote about it recently for @democratization.bsky.social.

Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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June 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I can almost hear the cartoonish evil laughter. Remember this is the president of the US. What a nightmare.
June 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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May 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
9.
2023 Nisan’da yayınlanan bilirkişi raporu yapının Boğaziçi siluetini bozacağını ve yasaya aykırı olduğunu ifade etti. Ancak çalışmalar devam etti.

10.
2024 Aralık’ta Mücella Yapıcı, projedeki kolonların yapısal güvenlik riski taşıdığına dikkat çekti.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
7.
Buna rağmen Yapı&Yapı 2022 Mayıs’ta inşaata başladı. 2022 Ağustos’ta İBB ruhsatı iptal etti, şantiyeyi mühürledi.

8.
2023’te Çevre ve Şehircilik Bakanlığı devreye girerek yeni imar planı çıkardı ve yapı ruhsatı verdi. İnşaat yeniden başladı.

📷: @HamdiCelikbas (X)
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
5.
Dönemin CHP İl Başkanı Canan Kaftancıoğlu'nun protestoları, şimdi hapiste olan Tayfun Kahraman ve Can Atalay gibi isimlerin verdiği şehircilik ve hukuk mücadelesi sonrası imar planı 20 Eylül 2019’da iptal edildi.

6.
Danıştay, iptal kararını 28 Haziran 2021’de kesinleştirdi.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
3.
2018’de İBB, 31.885 m²’lik araziyi ihaleye çıkardı. Planlarda yükseklik sınırı yoktu.

4.
İhaleyi Yapı&Yapı ve ASTAŞ ortaklığı kazandı. Erdoğan'a yakın iş adamı Nusret Yıldırım'ın şirketi Yapı&Yapı, arazi bedelini Vakıfbank kredisiyle ödedi.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
1.
Etiler Polis Koleji arazisi 2013’teki 17-25 Aralık yolsuzluk soruşturmalarında Bilal Erdoğan’la bağlantılı bir şirkete ihalesiz verilmek istendiği iddiasıyla gündeme geldi.

2.
2014’te okul kapatıldı. Arazi “riskli alan” ilan edilerek İçişleri Bakanlığı’ndan İBB’ye devredildi.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
İstanbul Etiler'de afet sonrası toplanma alanı olarak belirlenmiş eski Polis Koleji arazisine dikilmekte olan rant kuleleri.

Müstakil evler ve 4-5 katlı apartmanlardan oluşan mahalleye dikilen bu heyulaların hikayesi de Türkiye yakın siyasi tarihinin bir özeti 👇
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
5. All this comes just two years after Turkey’s deadliest earthquakes killed over 50,000 people and reduced entire cities to rubble, amidst mass corruption and government negligence. Survivors are still struggling, accountability is scarce, and yet Erdoğan was re-elected in 2023.
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
3. The arrests are politically driven as Erdogan govt wants to remove a key rival in Imamoglu and reclaim control of Istanbul which it lost to the opposition in 2019. Protests have been ongoing against the arrests for over a month.
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
2. Key municipal officials responsible for (and serious about) disaster planning are in jail.

These include Mayor E. Imamoglu, Deputy Sec Gen A. Gurkan, Head of Earthquake Dept T. Kahraman, Head of Istanbul Planning Agency G. Bugra and mayors of some of the most vulnerable districts in the city.
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A 6.2 earthquake hit Istanbul this afternoon, thankfully no casualties reported so far. But:

1. Scenes of packed crowds in narrow streets all over the city highlight the lack of adequate assembly areas. 60% of assembly areas listed in the city's disaster plan no longer exist. Many were built upon.
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There's a countrywide boycott of government-aligned businesses in 🇹🇷 -- and it's working! Intense social media campaign for Muse to postpone its Istanbul concert, organised by an AKP-linked entertainment company, has just born fruit.
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Onion-like repression in 🇹🇷, cont'd:
March 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And the "West" did not abandon Turkey's democrats only today. We have been very much on our own for a long time.

This is from after the deadly airport attack in Istanbul in 2016.

opendemocracy.net/en/can-europ...
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is such an outdated title for 2025.
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Brazil is NOT sliding towards a Venezuela-style dictatorship. Why is @financialtimes.com amplifying that ludicrous discourse and the call for intervention from Trump by the country's hard-right? Would the FT give that kind of space to Farage or a European far-right figure in a similar situation?
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"Lots of good, positive news coming out of Turkey right now" after Trump talked to Erdogan, according to Witkoff.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/w...
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Onion-like repression in 🇹🇷:

"Lawyers of students, who were detained while protesting the detention of Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu, have been detained."
March 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Indeed.
February 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🍺 at Istanbul Airport vs. 🍺 at London Heathrow
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
And so it starts.
February 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM