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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 07/08/2026

This long analysis about the EU’s enlargement prospects by @henryjfoy.ft.com and Martin Dunai is fascinating – not least because it mentions the EU’s longest-standing candidate country, Turkey, precisely once. www.ft.com/content/f8fc...

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‘It’s now or never.’ Is the EU serious about letting in new members?

Candidate countries hope for progress after years of inaction, but some in Brussels are still uncertain about enlargement

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 30/03/2026

New autocorrect in Windows 11 and I don’t approve

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 15/02/2026

A pro-Kurdish demonstration in central London, complete with flags of Abdullah Öcalan, the YPG, the federated Iraqi region of Kurdistan – but not, as was so often the case in previous years, the PKK.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 29/04/2025

Utterly shocked to learn of @ceren-iskit.bsky.social’s sudden and untimely death aged just 38. I knew her on the London Turkish beat: she was a good journalist with a good heart, taken far, far too young. t24.com.tr/haber/gazete...

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Gazeteci Ceren Kaynak İskit hayatını kaybetti: Mesleğini yapmaktan bir an olsun vazgeçmeyen bir gazeteciydi

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 23/04/2025

You don't really need subtitles to see how well presenter Meltem Bozbeyoğlu handles the moment a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Istanbul struck live on CNN Türk, but here they are in any case.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 28/03/2025

In Turkish North Cyprus, an education ministry official is turned away from a school barricaded by parents who don’t want to admit a pupil who wears a headscarf. It appears they’re fighting Turkey’s battles of the 1990s, but in the social media age. Via HaberKKTC

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 19/03/2025

“The terrorism charge is particularly serious because it could allow him to be removed from office. It means that by the end of the day Ekrem İmamoğlu may no longer be mayor of Istanbul.” Me on the BBC World Service a little earlier.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 18/03/2025

A new page in a long-running row: Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's university diploma has been annulled. It means that if a presidential election were called now, İmamoğlu – who is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's foremost challenger – would not be able to stand as a candidate.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 16/03/2025

Where should I go with the family in Turkey this summer? Got two small children, so our demands are fairly sedate: a nice house, no pool, but next to a sandy beach. My go-to is glorious Gökova — that's where I spent my childhood holidays — but help me break old habits: what does BlueSky think?

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 27/02/2025

History in the making in Turkey, where a message from PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan – apparently calling for peace and an end to an armed conflict lasting nearly half a century – is being read out live. But it’s in Kurdish first, so most of the country doesn’t know what’s in it yet.

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JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com · 08/01/2025

New from @reuters.com: Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party delegation to visit jailed PKK militant leader Ocalan for a second time, party sources say

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 10/12/2024

So. Six of the seven suspects arrested in last month’s anti-PKK raid in north London last month have been charged with terrorism offences and will make their first court appearance today. news.met.police.uk/news/six-peo...

news.met.police.uk

Six people charged in connection with Counter Terrorism investigation

Six people were charged after initially being arrested on Wednesday, 27 November:

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 30/11/2024

Police in London impose sweeping conditions ahead of tomorrow’s Kurdish demonstration in central London and make a point of warning anyone displaying their support for the PKK risks committing a criminal offence. news.met.police.uk/news/met-set...

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Met sets out public order conditions ahead of a Kurdish community march in central London

A policing operation will take place on Sunday, 1 December.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 28/11/2024

Today is one of those days I remember quite how many Americans I follow on Bluesky. Thanks for all your various exotic Thanksgiving dishes lovingly crafted from recipes handed down through the generations. My dinner was pasta with a dollop of supermarket pesto. Quite clearly, I win.

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 27/11/2024

This is huge: six PKK-related arrests in north London, including searches at places linked to the group. It’s not just a counter terror operation that directly concerns Turkey – it’s also the first time I’ve seen an arrest of this kind in a while. news.met.police.uk/news/six-arr...

news.met.police.uk

Six arrested as part of counter terrorism investigation into suspected PKK activity

A number of people have been arrested today, Wednesday 27 November 2024, as part of a significant Counter Terrorism Policing investigation led by the Met’s...

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JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com · 21/10/2024

There certainly won't be any public show of grief in Turkey today over Fethullah Gülen, whose death was announced overnight. The 83-year-old's name is toxic, and not just because the government blames him for the 2016 coup attempt. That notoriety makes him a pivotal figure. 🧵

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JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com · 05/11/2023

It’s official. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has become the first major Turkish political party leader this century to be defeated in a leadership contest. Is this a seminal moment in Turkish politics, or merely the final whimper of the movement defeated by President Erdoğan in May?

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Michael Sercan Daventry @michaeldaventry.com · 23/10/2023

“A Future Searching For Its Story” or “The One Looking For His Story Will Arrive”. Bekir Ağırdır’s book is just confusing.

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