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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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New episode 🎧📚 Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey In "Istanbul Appearances", Liebelt researched extensively in Istanbul's beauty salons and cosmetic surgery centres, exploring the sector’s extraordinary growth 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/02/18/c...

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Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey

Turkey Book Talk #238 – Claudia Liebelt, professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Berlin, on “Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femini…

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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A historic shift may be on the horizon, as Turkey and Kurdish militant leader Ocalan engage in unexpected peace talks. After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. Watch our short explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rc...

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Is this the end of the PKK insurgency? | With Gönül Tol

YouTube video by Middle East Institute

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Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Sultan Donald and his Grand Vizier Musk pasha. This is account Ottomanizes the Trump administration

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Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Twee jaar na de aardbevingsramp, ging ik terug naar Antakya, waar de wonden nog diep zijn. Trauma’s, angsten, rouw, verdriet. Waar begin je om dat te verwerken? Kinderen van de dansgroep van Didem Koban doen het door te dansen wat ze meemaakten. Helen door te dansen: nos.nl/l/2554789

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Dans als therapie: Turkse kinderen overwinnen trauma na aardbeving

Onze correspondent Mitra Nazar keert twee jaar na de verwoestende aardbeving terug naar de Turkse provincie Hatay.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 04/02/2025

Turkey's Court of Cassation ruled that a man who beat a girl unconscious, tried to strangulate her, locked her in a barrel, burned her alive, dumped her body in the woods and poured concrete on it, acted because "unfair provocation," rejecting prosecution's charge of premeditated murder. #femicide

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Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Fears of a bigger earthquake that could cause a tsunami in the sea around Santorini, after hundreds of tremors in the past days. (This is interesting, has this level of predictive warning been seen before?)

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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Sad day for Turkey. At least 66 people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort in northwestern Turkey. Culprit is the same: corruption and influence of construction sector over Erdogan. In 2012, after request from the construction sector, ++

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Özgür Öğret @ozgurogret.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

On Sunday, thousands of people gathered where Hrant Dink, founding editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was murdered in broad daylight 18 years ago in Istanbul, Turkey, to reiterate the call to the Turkish authorities for full justice. cpj.org/data/people/hr…

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The spirit in Tbilisi atm 👇🏼

Meanwhile in Georgia, a pro Russian symbol of anti-west conspiracy theories & mediocre former football player will be announced as the new president today. Widely seen as puppet of authoritarian oligarch Ivanishvili who’s been following Russian playbook, sparking mass pro-EU protests.

With the fall of Syria’s Moscow-supported regime, a large chunk of Russia’s leverage over Türkiye is gone. But Erdoğan will not take the risk of challenging Russia. Rather, he will continue acting as an intermediary between Putin and the West. -> read @dimitarbechev.bsky.social

Erdoğan has two big problems that a post-Assad Syria might help him solve. -> read @gonultol.bsky.social

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/12/2024

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A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

JUST IN: TV Pitveli journalist Maka Chikhladze is thrown on the ground by the Titushky (regime thugs) after putting their hand on her mouth, and the cameraman is attacked. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Interesting analysis on Georgian protests prospects & support or lack there of in police, army etc👇🏼

Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Turkish police assaulted and detained dozens of women during their protest against violence against women. (25/11 is the International Day for Elimination of Violence against women) Have a look at these strong photos by @bianet.bsky.social that show how very dangerous these women truly are 👇🏼

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Yaman Akdeniz @cyber-rights.org · 21/11/2024

We have created a page to show how long certain websites and platforms have been blocked from Turkey. If you visit the website, you will see that there is an English version too. You might in fact be surprised to see how long platforms such as Shoutcast, Wikileaks and TuneIn have been blocked.

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Kaç gündür erişime engelli?

Türkiye'den erişime engellenen bir milyondan fazla web sitelerinden bazılarının kaç gündür erişime engelli olduğunu öğrenin.

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Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Amid a nascent "peace process", Nimet Kıraç profiles Turkey's Academics for Peace, who were prosecuted, dismissed and, in some cases, exiled for opposing conflict. “Maybe the opposite of war is not peace, but justice," Ulaş Bayraktar said.

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Punished for taking a stance, Turkey’s peace academics watch new ‘Kurdish opening’ with reservations

MERSİN — It has been seven weeks since Devlet Bahçeli, Turkey’s ultranationalist party leader, shook hands with pro-Kurd DEM Party politicians, signaling the beginning of a new period in a decades-lon...

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Boris van der Spek @borisvanderspek.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ik heb ook een Starter Pack gemaakt, met alle NOS-correspondenten die op BlueSky zitten. Volg en deel! go.bsky.app/StLCMHo

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Liz Cookman @lizcookman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also pressing for a ceasefire in Ukraine. He is to propose a peace plan at the G20 that includes freezing the front line, creating a buffer zone with international troops, no NATO for 10 years & providing Ukraine weapons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ukraine’s Allies Are Leaning on Zelenskiy for a Way to End the War

After almost 1,000 days resisting the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s allies are pushing Volodymyr Zelenskiy to consider new ways to lure Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table as they seek an end to the...

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Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Minimum-wage earners are falling further behind in Istanbul, where rents have gone up a staggering 1100% in four years: Average rent in Oct 2020: 2,308 TL Net minimum wage: 2,235 TL Average rent in Oct 2024: 27,733 TL Net minimum wage: 17,0002 TL t24.com.tr/haber/asgari...

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Asgari ücretlinin İstanbul'da ev sorunu büyüyor: Konut ve kira fiyatları fırladı

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Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One of my favorite works in te Istanbul Modern collection is this folkloric beauty ‘Coffeehouse’ (1973) by the famous Turkish artist Bedri Tahmi Eyüboğlu.

Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Great Turkey journalists/analysts/academics starter pack here👇🏼