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Durrie Bouscaren

@durriethekid.bsky.social
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correspondent for hire, Istanbul Sound and words @NPR.org, @TheWorld.org www.durriebouscaren.com

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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is America now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o... important words by @polgreen.bsky.social
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Opinion | Trump’s Spectacle of Cruelty in Minneapolis
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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...
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Why Turkish wrestlers are covered in 2 tons of olive oil
YouTube video by The World News Radio
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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...
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Why Turkish wrestlers are covered in 2 tons of olive oil
YouTube video by The World News Radio
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The World @theworld.org · 16/12/2025
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.
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The 664-year-old sport where anything goes
YouTube video by The World News Radio
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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...
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A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
A view from Israel
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Foreign Media Association @fma-turkey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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...
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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2025
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.
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He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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/...
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Palestinian American from Florida killed in the West Bank, family says
Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, who lived in Tampa and was an American citizen, his family said, was visiting relatives in the West Bank when he was killed.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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...
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The Political Machine Feeding Turkey’s Wildfires
The blazes ravaging the country have been worsened by climate change, but were set by policy decisions
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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...
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İzmir'deki orman yangınlarında hayatını kaybedenlerin sayısı 2'ye yükseldi - Medyascope
Ödemiş'te yangın söndürme çalışmasında İbrahim Demir hayatını kaybetti. 81 yaşındaki İbrahim Erkan da yaşamını yitirdi.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
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A Crackdown Inside Iran
Podcast Episode · State of the World from NPR · 07/02/2025 · 9m
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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...
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Iranians fleeing to Turkey fear for the future
Activists in Iran say the government there is cracking down in an effort to undo infiltration by Israeli intelligence.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A very basic, very crucial point here. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-ar...
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Nations Are People
Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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...
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At least 51 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry
More than 200 also wounded on Tuesday morning as they waited for UN and commercial trucks to enter territory with aid supplies
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/06/2025
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. trib.al/KDSG5hl
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/06/2025
Israeli strikes near aid site in the Gaza Strip kill 31, medics say – Middle East crisis live
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Israeli strikes near aid site in the Gaza Strip kill 31, medics say – Middle East crisis live
Gaza civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting to enter a US-backed food distribution centre A 10-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month which killed his father and nine siblings was due to arrive in Italy on Wednesday for treatment, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Adam and his mother, paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar, were due to fly to Milan in northern Italy on Wednesday evening alongside his aunt and four cousins, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said. Continue reading...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/06/2025
“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.”
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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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...
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Turkish judge has just ruled for the release of seven journalists arrested for covering pro-democracy protests in Istanbul. Journalism is not a crime!!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/03/2025
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
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MLSA @mlsaturkey.org · 24/03/2025
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.
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Sendika.Org - Üreten Biziz Yöneten de Biz Olacağız
Sendika.Org - Üreten Biziz Yöneten de Biz Olacağız
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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)
photoshopped, satirical image of woman surviving a zombie apocalypse, with famous Istanbul monuments in the background
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
this is beautiful. www.noemamag.com/the-language...
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The Languages Lost To Climate Change | NOEMA
Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.
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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
PKK just accepted Ocalan’s call for a ceasefire— apnews.com/article/pkk-...
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Kurdish militants declare ceasefire in 40-year insurgency in Turkey
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has led to tens of thousands of deaths since it began in 1984.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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...
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Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
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The World @theworld.org · 27/02/2025
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
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The great @heissenstat.bsky.social totally inspired our sahlep segment today, cheers my friend!
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Why is Turkey sending thousands of tonnes of eggs to US buyers?
A preliminary agreement between the two countries means 15,000 tonnes of eggs will be sent to the US by July.
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#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.👇 buff.ly/4hWOYXM
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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...
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Hamas Hands Bodies of 4 Hostages Back to Israel
All four had been abducted during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023. An Israeli woman and her two young children were said to be among them.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees, who have been denied a...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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Trump Team Finds Loophole to Effectively Maintain Spending Freezes
Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money.
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/02/2025
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
A photo shows Palestinians leaving their homes for safety during a raid Tuesday by the Israeli army in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A headline reads: Palestinian Displacement in the West Bank Is Highest Since 1967, Experts Say. Photo by Zain Jaafar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
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Durrie Bouscaren @durriethekid.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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...
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In Azerbaijan, police use LGBTQ dating apps to extort money - The World from PRX
Activists say police in Azerbaijan created fake profiles on the LGBT dating app Grindr in an effort to entrap gay men and extort them for money. As The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports, the technique ...
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