Has Avrat

@hasavrat

Also called Pek Muhterem Hanımefendi on occasion. Photographer. Thinks. Writes. Gives many damns.

Ankara - Malatya - ad Orontem
Joined April 2011
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    12 Nov 2016

    Dear Followers, This is my feed. I'll write what I want. It's not run by a board or by consensus of the readership. Don't like it, unfollow.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Turkish media reporting that MİT carried out an operation in Latakiya (held by the Syrian regime) and captured Yusuf Nazik who has confessed to coordinating the Reyhanlı bombing, under the direction of Syrian intel.

    MİT, 53 vatandaşın hayatını kaybettiği Reyhanlı saldırısının planlayıcısı Yusuf Nazik'i Suriye'nin Lazkiye kentinde paketleyip Türkiye'ye getirdi.
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    3 hours ago

    In the wake of Austrian journalist Zirngast being detained, Austrian Government Spokesperson Tieffenthal has said, “We urge Turkey to explain reasons for the detention or release the journalist immediately

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    3 hours ago

    President Erdogan appoints himself chairman of Turkey's sovereign wealth fund and gets rid of the entire management staff

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    4 hours ago

    President's special envoy to Lavrentiev stated is 's responsibility zone, with aid of international community it should separate moderates from adding that sooner or later issue must be solved cardinally with attention to civilians' lives

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    3 hours ago

    Talks about / military offensive in & 's concerns must be taken within broader picture: focus on consultations between RU, TR, in w/ 's where sides finally agreed on committee lists

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    12 hours ago

    Burning Borderlands. My latest blog for on using open-source information to monitor conflict-caused wildfires in Iraq as shelling from Turkish and Iranian armed forces leaves a black scarred landscape With special thanks to

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    19 hours ago

    I apologise for frequency of interviews I do, but since you all like them so much I have done more & more. This new one is w/the amir of Fursan al-Din, one of the independent jihadi groups in northwest Syria. The group was founded by Turkish muhajireen

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  9. 12 hours ago

    “Since March 2015, the USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation has been looking into “bid rigging, collusion, bribery, and kickbacks” in cross-border humanitarian aid supplied from Turkey to Syria.”

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  10. 12 hours ago

    I missed this.

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    Abu Academic in action, training HTS in .
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    20 hours ago

    The strong cooperation among 🇹🇷-🇷🇴-🇵🇱 within alliance contributes significantly to regional peace and security. We are in solidarity against terrorism and all kinds of threats.

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    17 hours ago

    . provides an overview of new U.S. strategy in Syria, aimed at rolling back Iran's presence and ensuring sustained defeat of ISIS; premised on open-ended U.S. military presence, energetic diplomacy, and other tools of leverage (e.g., sanctions):

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    Sep 10

    Unicredit and BBVA merger could be rather interesting with this implications in Turkey

    *UNICREDIT MAY CONSIDER BBVA, ABN AMRO FOR POSSIBLE M&A: MF
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    Sep 10

    The study also hints at the material reasons why Turks went to Syria. In the ISIS Networks book, a 14-year old from the above neighborhood goes to Syria in late 2014 amid promises of cash and consumer electronics after his dad refuses to buy him a cellphone.

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    Sep 10

    The study also hints at how some fundamentalist networks in Turkey which hadn’t previously been sources of foreign fighters ended up becoming a lead motivator for people header to Syria:

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    Sep 10

    Between 2012 and 2014, some fighters from Hacibayram returned regularly and were known to take relatives and locals with them. These fighters were also prolific on social media and engaged with locals in their home neighborhood that way.

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    Sep 10

    In the ISIS networks chapter on recruitment in Hacibayram, Ankara, locals see-sawed between fighting in Syria and returning home so frequently (before a crackdown in Oct 2014) that Dogu ends up calling the phenomenon ‘part time mujahid’

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    Sep 10

    One thing that Dogu’s book makes apparent is how these factors enabled each other. For example, the ease with which Turks could formerly get to Syria and (screenshotted here) the influence face-to-face encounters with returned foreign fighters had on new recruits:

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    Sep 10

    Here’s a graph from the study on Turkish foreign fighters' leading motivations:

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    Sep 10

    This study makes use of a pretty incredible dataset - transcripts of interviews by Turkish security services with 89 Turkish foreign fighters (92% male, 8% female) caught by authorities between December 2012 and June 2014.

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    Sep 10

    While it's the best Turkish language source on ISIS in Turkey, here’s a fascinating English language study on the motivations of Turkish foreign fighters that I recently stumbled upon:

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