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Ergun Babahan

@ebabahan.bsky.social
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Journalist, 1988 John Knight Fellow at Stanford University

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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Turkey’s stock market tempted investors with spectacular returns. Now the bubble has burst. In only two days a scandal wiped $30bn from the market
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m beginning to notice a pattern on Sundays.
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Nurse Ratched @nurseratched64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Sertaç Dirik’s new restaurant Kid, in Soho, is lively, stylish and often delicious, but its best ideas still owe much to the Turkish grill culture it refashions, says Jay Rayner. Tap here to read his review: ft.trib.al/B3TKwDU
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Manchester City rule breaches - potential punishments, appeals and next steps ft.trib.al/Wda6I6q
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Manchester City rule breaches - potential punishments, appeals and next steps
The case could run for several years, legal experts warn
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ATLAS THINK @atlastc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
1st Week of February 2026: “Right to Hope” talk, arrests in practice atlasthink.org/1st-week-of-... by @ebabahan.bsky.social
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1st Week of February 2026: “Right to Hope” talk, arrests in practice - Atlas Think Center
Weekly Turkey Report: First Week of February 2026 – “Right to Hope” talk, arrests in practice It is alleged that three Romani boys were handed over to Joris Demmink, the Deputy Secretary of the Dutch ...
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
US President Donald Trump is expected to present Iran with a “last chance” offer, US and European officials told The Jerusaem Post on Monday.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The U.S. notified several of its allies in private on Thursday that Israeli strikes were imminent and made clear it was not involved, one of the sources said.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Inside a City Swept by Roving Gunmen, Deadly Grudges and Fear www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/w...
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Inside a City Swept by Roving Gunmen, Deadly Grudges and Fear
A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government’s control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war.
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Cengiz Aktar @cengizaktar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Denmark has children’s story writer Hans Christian Andersen. The US has children’s story writer JD Vance. American children are about twice as likely as Danish children to die before the age of five" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bükemediğin burnu sıkacaksın! Portekiz atasözü
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/04/2025
In today’s world, the US is a revolutionary power, while supposedly communist China is a status quo power. Read FT columnist Martin Wolf’s take on how this shift will unsettle the global order: www.ft.com/content/80ab...
An illustration of Donald Trump. Headline text reads: ‘Trump’s cultural revolution is an opportunity for China’.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Limited internet comes to the inmates in Canada’s federal prisons
Canada’s federal prisons are introducing the internet to their prisoners for the first time, in a limited way geared to providing some inmates with educational courses and even virtual reality, W5 has...
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Right Loves the Roman Empire for All the Wrong Reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | The Roman Empire Loved by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon Never Existed
Donald Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome — and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is based on common misconceptions.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
DEM, Kobane’de 7 sivilin ölümüyle sonuçlanan SİHA saldırısının Erdoğan’ın bilgisi olmadan gerçekleşeceğini düşünecek kadar saf değildir herhalde
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Gırgır yaptım gerçek oldu, TÜSİAD yönetimine soruşturma açılmış
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rusya’nın Ukrayna’da işgal ettiği toprakların sahibi olması Tayvan’ı büyük bir tehdit altına sokacağı gibi, Kuzey Kıbrıs’ın Türkiye tarafından ilhakına da yol açacaktır. Dünya sisteminde vahşi Batı dönemi açılıyor
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/02/2025
Emmanuel Macron has told the FT that Trump's return to the White House is the jolt Europe needs to 'muscle up' and secure its own future. Read @roulak.bsky.social's exclusive interview with the French president here: www.ft.com/content/1ee4...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/02/2025
NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13/02/2025
Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
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RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts
Experts weigh in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial take and what they want everyone to know.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Fenerbahçe, Real Madrid’le mi oynuyor ne! Yarım saattir sürekli baskı yiyiyor
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cemil Bayık, Abdullah Öcalan’ın kendilerine bir mektup gönderdiğini açıkladı. İmralı’dan Kandil’e mektup göndermek serbest ama DEM’den belediye başkanı seçilmek suç
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/02/2025
House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
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House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs
House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yurttaşlar birbiriyle konuşamaz hale geldiğinde ve birbirini politik rakip değil de düşman olarak gördüğünde demokrasi savunmasız kalır. (Noah Harari- Nexus; sayfa 346)
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/02/2025
Alibaba says it will be Apple’s AI partner in China www.ft.com/content/bb3a6f4b-4047-41…
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Alibaba says it will be Apple’s AI partner in China
Ecommerce group’s advances in artificial intelligence have boosted its shares more than 40% this year
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/02/2025
Thyssenkrupp warns US tariffs could prompt flood of cheap Chinese steel to Europe www.ft.com/content/055a5773-7568-44…
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Thyssenkrupp warns US tariffs could prompt flood of cheap Chinese steel to Europe
Finance chief’s caution comes as company revises cash flow guidance upwards
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Gelin len buraya
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar’ın Süper Kupa devre arasındaki muhteşem şovunu izlemediyseniz, mutlaka bulup izleyin
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Betrayed: How Trump’s Tariff Threats Tore the U.S.-Canada Bond www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...
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How Trump’s Tariff Threats Tore the U.S.-Canada Bond
Patriotic sentiment is bursting in Canada after President Trump’s threat to apply hefty tariffs and even annex the country. The damage to the two nations’ relationship could be lasting.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
AKP seçime giderken en küçük itirazda bulunanı bile susturma çabasında
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump monopoly oynar gibi başkanlık yapıyor resmen
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/02/2025
Bulgaria’s current demographic patterns are rooted in an exodus that followed the collapse of communism in 1989. At that time, Bulgaria chased away close to half a million ethnic Turks by implementing a forced assimilation campaign called ‘Revival’. www.ft.com/content/4f6f...
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Biden’a kızan Amerikalı Müslümanlar Trump’a oy vermişti
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump, Suriye’den asker çekmek bir yana Gaze’yi Filistinlilerden temizlemek için asker göndermekten bahsediyor. Kafasında çocukları ve damadına milyarlarca dolar kazandırmak var; hem de Suudi parasıyla
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
With Gaza Plan, an Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Idea www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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An Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Plan for Gaza
Once a critic of nation building, the president now envisions taking over a Middle East enclave, driving out its Palestinian population and transforming it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If Trump's tariff on Chinese imports actually happens tomorrow, the price of all the cheap shit Americans (especially poor shoppers) purchase will go up. And it won't just be 10%. A quick explainer on the de minimis loophole that might close tomorrow: www.theverge.com/news/605483/...
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Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close
Trump is promising to close the de minimis exemption.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I hate that it's gotten this far, but if countries want to counter a US-imposed trade war, they should make Elon Musk's companies a focus of their retaliation. Those business interests have effectively merged with the US executive branch, and decision-makers value them more than the American people.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/02/2025
‘A trade war on steroids’: Trump ushers in new era of US protectionism www.ft.com/content/32bedf88-cf5d-49…
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‘A trade war on steroids’: Trump ushers in new era of US protectionism
President bets he can achieve his aims through tariffs without igniting inflation or a sell-off in American stocks
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
USA is a sick man about to die, nothing will change that
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Fransız donanması baskın yaptı: Türk gemisinde 9 ton kokain!
İstanbul'dan hareket eden Haliç-Equality gemisine, Martinique Adası açıklarında Fransa donanması tarafından operasyon düzenlendi. Operasyonda, gemide 9 ton kokain ele geçirildi ve kokainin piyasa değe...
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bianet @bianet.org · 30/12/2024
🟣 Elbette bu kartlarla Kürtçe öğrenmek “suç” sayılabilir, ama en azından oldukça eğlenceli bir suç! 📍#bianet olarak Kürtçe kelime kartlarını hazırlamaya devam ediyoruz. #biaKürtçeKelimeler 👇 bianet.org/haber/bilinm...
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
​Families, a Dean, a Young Swimmer: ​​Lives Lost in the Turkish Ski Resort Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/w...
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Deadly Hotel Fire at Turkish Ski Resort Stirs Grief and Outrage
Some had returned to the hotel year after year. Their deaths — amid dozens of others at the hotel — have stirred grief and outrage.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CHP’li belediye başkanı neden bu rejimin içişleri bakan yardımcısının kardeşiyle çalışır? Yolsuzluk yaparsam dokunmazlar diye düşünmüşse, tutmamış
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/01/2025
Following in the footsteps of MacBooks and iPads with the same name, it would be the thinnest iPhone yet.
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The iPhone Air could be coming later this year
It would be the thinnest iPhone yet.
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Suriye’de her şey yeni başlıyor. İslamcıların eline geçen bölgeler çok çabuk Libya, Yemen benzeri farklı grupların güç savaşına dönüştüğü ve kaosun hüküm sürdüğü yerler haline gelebilir. İslamcıların adil paylaşım üzerine dayalı bir sosyal sözleşme yapamadıkları biliniyor
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 02/12/2024
Walmart showcases how corporate greed is done. Companies that are pushing these mass layoffs of workers amid record profits are disgusting. #UnionsForAll
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Ergun Babahan @ebabahan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Zenginliğin ortasında plajda yatmak zorunda kalan Afrikalı bir göçmen
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/12/2024
Rebel offensive boosts Turkey’s influence in Syria www.ft.com/content/6221f4e9-9a7a-4f…
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Rebel offensive boosts Turkey’s influence in Syria
Ankara, long a backer of opposition groups, sees chance to push back Kurdish militants and force Assad to negotiate
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