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Emek

@emekakman.bsky.social
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A Gen X cynic brewing sarcasm as dark as Turkish coffee. Served from London with dry, surreal wit and a splash of existential dread. Ranting about UK and Turkish politics since before Wi-Fi.

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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Travis Scott, Astroworld’de insanlar ezilirken konser modundan çıkamadı. Kanye West’in CV’si artık albüm listesi değil: cinsel taciz iddiaları, antisemitizm, Nazi estetiği ve “Heil Hitler” diye şarkı. Pop kültür değil bu; medeniyetin “low battery” uyarısı.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The PG Morgan report was apparently clear as day, and Starmer read it. So either he understood it and ignored it, or read it the way he governs: blankly, cautiously, and with all the conviction of a man choosing hummus in Waitrose. Either way, resign.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Kaya Genç’s portrait of Burhan Sönmez is so beautifully written it reads like a novel, except it is a life. The opening is cinematic, then it turns tender, angry, hopeful. This is political writing with an actual human heart.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A Jewish politician writing a full-throated solidarity post about a Muslim man in politics. Sorry, is this Britain or a brief glitch in the culture-war matrix? Someone pinch me. Oh BTW: Vote Green 💚
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
They said Zack Polanski was unhinged. He just read the small print while everyone waved flags. He’s been vindicated before, and he’s right again: NATO is a risk we call a virtue. Time to talk about leaving. Vote Green 💚 Follow Jack: @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to allow US to use British bases for defensive strikes against Iran
Keir Starmer says the UK has not been involved in the US-Israeli strikes, but warned that 200,000 British people are in countries being targeted by Iran
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Being Gen X, I don’t do political crushes. I don’t do hero worshipping. But watching Zack Polanski on Channel 4 after that win, looking genuinely human for once, I felt something dangerously unfamiliar in my chest: hope. Yes, for the first time in my life too. 💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRK...
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How Green Party by-election victory could change British politics
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
As a Gen X, for the first time in my life I want to hug a politician.💚
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I didn’t think politics could surprise me anymore. Then the Greens did. I went from existential crisis to actually paying attention — and cracking a smile.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Once again, Zack reminds us why we believe in him. Never again for anyone! 💚
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The Manchester synagogue attacks show us something brutal: antisemitism is alive, violent, and must be fought. But if we only confront hate when Jews are the target — and ignore Islamophobia or the genocide in Gaza — we’re not fighting hate. We’re managing it. #Manchester #Antisemitism #UKPolitics
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The mood around #AI has shifted. Once sold as innovation’s shiny toy, it’s now a lightning rod for anger. Why? Let’s unpack the backlash—and why most of it says more about people than the technology itself. #Future #Tech #Innovation
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A year ago, “Green” meant a smoothie. Now it’s a ballot box. 💚
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
1/8 Nigel Farage — the man who gave us Brexit chaos — now wants to retroactively cancel settled status. Spoiler: it’s a legal disaster waiting to happen. Here’s why his latest stunt will implode under the law. 👇 #ReformUK #UKPolitics #NigelFarage
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
1/8 The man who unleashed the hell of Brexit now wants to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain. Let’s break down why Farage’s latest idea isn’t just cruel – it’s economically brain-dead. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #NigelFarage
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Become a Green Party member—along with nearly 1,400 others t yesterday. The first time in my life I’m a sheep following the flock and I like it 😋 Podcasts’re the background noise of a world drunk on its own stupidity. Zack's passion is music to my ears. My Marxist friends will probably disown me. 💚
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Corbyn–Sultana bust-up isn’t just gossip; it’s proof their “new politics” replicates the old failures: weak structures, no process, personalised power. When movements can’t run admin, they lose credibility long before they win power. #UKPolitics
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump’s back for a 2nd state visit. Labour’s serving him the red carpet, the silverware and probably the NHS if he asks nicely. Zack’s right — this isn’t diplomacy, it’s masochism!
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump is democracy’s chaos agent; Starmer is its hospice manager. One breaks things for sport, the other tidies the ruins. Both depend on our lowered expectations of what politics can do. We should be demanding transformation, not trauma management. That’s why #GreenPartyUK matters #UKPolitics
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Signed up for the Greens. Finally my dialectics have a recycling bin. The revolution will be carbon neutral ✌️
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trump’s back in the UK. Charles looks like a boiled ham in ermine, Camilla like she’s lost a bet at Ascot, Melania doing full funeral cosplay, Trump glowing like an irradiated Wotsit. Welcome to the End Times, funded by the taxpayer. #UKPolitics #TrumpNotWelcome
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Every time someone misses irony this badly, an Oyster card loses signal. I make a joke, you take it like a policy white paper, and suddenly we’re in a thread about Palantir and China. Congratulations, you’ve managed to turn humour into homework. 😂
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Structural racism—deeply rooted in the state, media, education, and daily life—has long outlived ceasefires and negotiations. Without truth-telling, institutional reform, and a genuine reckoning with anti-Kurdish discrimination, ordinary Kurdish citizens will remain second-class—even in peace.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Genocide Remembrance Day, brought to you by: selective amnesia and performative condolences. "We mourn the past," says the country that criminalises naming it. Denial is political. Truth is historical. #armeniangenocide #ermenikatliamı
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
1/2 Maybe the saddest part isn't that Musk has this much power—it's that we keep rewarding people who burn things down with more gasoline and applause. We mistake domination for genius, and call it innovation. Humanity doesn’t need a villain. It wants one.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
1/4 The UK Supreme Court ruled that legal sex = biological sex. It’s a devastating rollback—not just for trans rights, but for the principle that justice expands. That we evolve. This isn’t just about law. It’s about who gets to belong.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Erdoğan is once again flirting with “peace” — not from principle, but political survival. As Öcalan calls for disarmament, the state bans Kurdish music at a wedding in Antalya. What kind of peace treats a language like a crime? You can’t negotiate peace while criminalising existence.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
One of the clearest accounts I’ve read of what İmamoğlu’s arrest really means. Not a legal move—a political purge. It shows how Erdoğan’s strategy is never just about silencing individuals, but about exhausting the very idea of democratic resistance. The writing doesn’t sensationalise. It observes.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Autocratic regimes don’t always silence dissent directly—they create conditions where even academic participation feels risky. From Harvard to international conferences, this is how fear becomes policy—quietly, systematically, and without needing a single law.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Joakim Medin is in Erdoğan’s prison for reporting. And still he believes. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Meanwhile, the sword censors, jails, silences. Who’s afraid of a journalist with a pen? Erdoğan. #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeJoakimMedin
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
1/3 The polling visuals reveal striking political pragmatism among Kurdish voters in Turkey. Despite exclusion, demonisation, and broken peace efforts, they continue to engage in democracy—not from naïveté, but with sharp political awareness and lived experience.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Erdoğan plays the field like a tactician, and Gingeras maps it sharply. But the most honest line? That the PKK’s disbanding might be real. The most dangerous? That this could mean peace without justice. Kurds as leverage. Protestors as obstacles. Some of us don’t call that peace.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Turns out I was in a two-week content funnel for the Gülenist Alumni Association. Now I'm googling “can you accidentally join a cult on BlueSky” and applying for a sabbatical from my own brain. 🤦‍♀️
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Genç captures what Turkish artists know too well: when authoritarianism tightens, art doesn’t vanish — it mutates. Censorship turns metaphor into necessity, abstraction into survival. Each brushstroke is quiet refusal, each exhibition a risk. This is resistance when the state hears everything.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Step 1: Teen depression. Step 2: German engineering. Step 3: Profit.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Welcome to the United Snitchdom of America — another proud franchise of Erdoğan’s post-truth empire.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A ceasefire not peace when state’s response is to jail political opponents, shrink the democratic space, and treat dissent like betrayal. You can’t build reconciliation on repression. The Kurdish question isn’t just about silencing guns—it’s about recognising dignity, memory, and autonomy.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
#BritishSteel was left to decay. Now #Labour is trying to salvage what remains — and somewhere, #Farage is Googling “What is a blast furnace?” #UKpolitics
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s performance art. And Erdoğan is accidentally starring in it. 👇
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Late Night Thought: Nothing says “peer review” like being followed, flattered, and unfollowed by an academic trying to optimise their digital prestige. Call it citation hunger games. 🫠
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If this is a simulation, can we patch out neoliberalism in the next update?
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A late night thought: Time is fake, money is a scam, and I’m still replying to emails like it matters. Who cursed us with Outlook and consciousness?
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In Turkey, when satire is censored, irony becomes our ink. From the 'Standing Man' to street theatre, our protest art wields humor as a weapon, turning oppression into the butt of the joke. This article delves into our legacy of laughing in the face of power. 👇
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A powerful reminder that independent courts and politically captured ones may look similar — but serve opposite purposes. 👇
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Late night thought; Watching billionaires implode while Elon turns against Trump is the serotonin I didn’t know I needed.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Biliyoruz… Geç kaldık. Sana bunlar yapılırken yeterince ses çıkarmadık. Sustuk, alıştık, unuttuk. Ama sen hâlâ içerideysen, biz de hâlâ suçluyuz. Ama bir gün adın Nelson Mandela ile yan yana anılacak. Bir gün mutlaka Selo Başkanım. #DemirtaşaÖzgürlük #SiyasiTutsaklaraÖzgürlük #KobaniDavası
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We did it. We boycotted capitalism… in three districts… for 24 hours… kind of. CHP called the boycott. CHP voters responded: stayed home, spiritually cleansed, maybe doomscrolled in silence. AKP voters hit the malls like it was a referendum on retail therapy.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Afternoon Time Thoughts: BlueSky started to feel like walking into a secular bootcamp where 700 avatars of Atatürk yell at you for not saluting properly.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A U.S. citizen mistakenly deported and thrown in a high-security prison? This isn’t immigration policy, it’s state-sponsored kidnapping.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Elif Şafak is the literary version of soft-focus Instagram activism—pretty words, zero proximity to actual risk. If she writes one more poetic op-ed about Turkey from a London café, I’m applying for asylum in a tweet.
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Emek @emekakman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Late night thoughts: Erdogan is the only man who could threaten a sex scandal and still sound like he’s scolding a child for not praying.
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