After 20 years, the best they can offer is the war industry products. Turkish Navy welcomes its new flagship, TCG ANADOLU When they said the Erdoğan campaign would benefit from state resources, I did not picture a mobile gallery of defense tech on a warship, but here we are. pic.twitter.com/M6XYdofbAe — Diego Cupolo (@DiegoCupolo) April … Read more
Over 64 million people to cast votes in May 14 elections About 133,000 voters from earthquake-stricken regions have transferred their voting registration to other provinces. Economy tops Erdogan’s manifesto for Turkish elections Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched his re-election campaign with a party pledge to slash inflation to single How Turkey’s new electoral … Read more
#Cocaine | Turkey, with a foot in both Europe and Asia, has become an essential hub for cocaine being trafficked from Latin America to emerging cocaine markets. Find out how: https://t.co/Qgl7m7M6wu pic.twitter.com/xkheTE1z2P — InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) April 3, 2023 News link here
Some citizens and politicians are designing “countdown” imageries. Here is Sinem‘s (my wife, by the way) broken bulb series: More details on her Instagram account. Another countdown from Ahmet Şık (TİP Deputy) was found on his Instagram account. Another countdown is from a Theatre account: @sahneden A Twitter user, Zano Baksa, circulates Obama campaign-style … Read more
Scoop: Turkey and Hungary Not Invited to Biden’s Big Democracy Summit Biden spurned NATO allies that are dismantling their democracies. ECtHR convicts Turkey for violating Peace Academics’ rights Click to read the article in Turkish The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has convicted Turkey for violating the rights of three of the academics who were … Read more
Turkish president lifts veto on Finland’s Nato application Finland’s parliament has already approved joining Nato, but the bill would need to be signed into law by the president within three months, setting a deadline on how long it needs to wait. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lifted his veto on Finland’s application to join Nato, a … Read more
Official: Turkey brings elections forward to May 14, Erdoğan announces Turkey will hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced. A presidential decree concerning the decision will be published in the Official Gazette tomorrow, the president said at a press conference in Ankara, the capital. 36 parties qualify … Read more
A Rival for Erdogan Emerges as Opposition Parties Pick a Candidate NYT > Turkey by Ben Hubbard and Gulsin Harman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of Turkey’s largest opposition party, and his allies are looking to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who they say has damaged the country’s democracy. Who is Kilicdaroglu, Turkish opposition’s presidential candidate? Turkish … Read more
It will be a difficult but a better walk… Opposition continues its walk without Good Party, to announce Kılıçdaroğlu as candidate İstanbul, Ankara mayors reject Akşener’s call for candidacy Bianet :: English İmamoğlu, Kılıçdaroğlu and Yavaş. Mayors of Ankara and İstanbul have announced support for their party leader amid a crisis in the opposition … Read more
Those images seen in the image above are photos of some of the most brutal murderers from the 90’s extrajudicial killings in the Kurdish cities. Turkish nationalists have gone mad and served very well to the ruling government in changing the news agenda. Nearly 50 thousand people died in the earthquakes just a few … Read more
Türkiye sentences a journalist under ‘disinformation law’ for first time Bianet :: English Aygül (m) reading out a statement outside of the courthouse. Journalist Sinan Ayül has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for “spreading disinformation,” becoming the first journalist to be sentenced under the “disinformation law” enacted in October. ☑ #Turkey's new disinformation … Read more
For what it is worth, the CHP-led National Alliance was an exemplary political experiment. Today, Meral Akşener broke ranks with five other opposition parties that formed “Table of Six” on March 3 and said her party would not support main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as the joint candidate. She stated that her party wanted CHP Istanbul Mayor (İBB) Ekrem İmamoğlu or … Read more
Nation Alliance unveils comprehensive gov’t program with 2,000 specific objectives The six-party Nation Alliance has unveiled its ambitious and comprehensive government program covering nine major areas, 75 subtitles with more than 2,000 targets to overhaul the governance system, economic policies, foreign policy, education and social policies for placing Türkiye into the league of high-income countries … Read more
Peaceful Sweden is taking blows from Turkey recently… Turkey summons Swedish ambassador over Erdoğan effigy Swedish government distances itself from hanging of presidential dummy in Stockholm stunt by Kurdish group Turkey pushes back vote on Sweden and Finland’s Nato accession Both Nordic nations lifted restrictions on weapons exports to Ankara, and Sweden amended its constitution … Read more
Some of my major recent work focuses on pro-government political trolls. I have tracked them since the Gezi Park protests, and alliances within the troll community have continuously changed. Pro-Soylu Ebabil group gradually became a contender to the so-called Pelikan group in recent years. Here are my writings on this topic (chronologically): Saka, E. (2022). … Read more