Can Okar

@canokar

A bit of politics, a bit of sport, a bit of debating, sometimes Turkish, usually English.

Joined December 2010
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  1. 1 hour ago

    Turkey tip for journalists new to the beat: if you call Fethullah Gülen a “prominent dissident” or “exiled cleric” and leave it at that, you’re doing it really wrong.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Gove offering, as a famous lawyer, international negotiator and diplomat, to renegotiate 585 pages of complex treaty did rather remind me of this.

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    Translator for Americans: Geoffrey Boycott was a batsman who made cricket nearly as boring as your sports.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Theresa May claims she can’t see anyone with a better deal than her one. How about not doing Brexit? It’s clearly impossible to achieve in a way that doesn’t destroy the country.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Which of these best describes today’s Brexit shenanigans?

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  6. 3 hours ago

    If Theresa May literally waiting for the 48th letter to arrive? Just get on with it.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    "To lose one Brexit Secretary may be regarded as misfortune but to lose two looks like gross incompetence and makes Brexit looks like an utter shitshow" - wildly misquoting Wilde

    Today, I have resigned as Brexit Secretary. I cannot in good conscience support the terms proposed for our deal with the EU. Here is my letter to the PM explaining my reasons, and my enduring respect for her.
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  8. 12 hours ago

    It isn't just a tactical error. I have said from the start that it was a moral imperative to uncover the truth. To treat any evidence as a bargaining chip rather than a tool to establish truth in an egregious murder was always an error.

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  9. 12 hours ago

    The only mistake Turkey made with the Khashoggi case was releasing audio tapes now and not 3-4 weeks ago. I imagine they thought it would increase the drama. They didn't realise the global news machine moves on. No-one is reporting this now apart from TRT World.

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  10. Nov 14

    Imagine loving a country so much that you’d literally threaten to burn it down if it didn’t 100% comply with your own ideological imprint of how it should be. That truly is patriotism!

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  11. Nov 14

    Turkish club Fenerbahçe once set fire to their own stadium because they didn’t win the league. Everyone laughed. Bit like the Brexiter threat of riots if they don’t get the exact Brexit they want. Exactly as mindless but this time it’s razing a whole country to the ground.

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  12. Nov 14

    Prime Minister's Questions is really weird today. The country is in the process of a historic self-immolation, the Tory Party is collapsing in on itself and last 10 minutes have been about: - a 100 year old bell-ringer - new trains - A-level German being canned in some school

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  13. Nov 14

    Just received this from the Oxford Union. Steve Bannon gets a full-on normalized CV and won’t be debating anyone, rather giving a monologue address of what I’m sure won’t be fascistic propaganda. This is how it starts, people.

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  14. Nov 14

    As Brexiters go completely mental at not getting the "perfect Brexit" (which differs for each and every one of them), they should consider what it will be like if they lose it. On the other hand, don't. Proceed like this because it might bring an end to this shitshow.

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  15. Nov 14

    The problem with this joke isn't just that it requires you to know another joke about homophobia for it to really work. It's that it's not all that funny because it's likely quite true.

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  16. Nov 14

    Brexit: the fear that other countries will treat you the way you treated colonies.

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  17. Nov 14

    Also good to see that their "petrol on fire" approach to Ireland also now apparently applies to the Balkans. Don't understand a long-standing conflict but think it might help you make a narrow ideological point? Use it, what's the worst that could happen?

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  18. Nov 14

    Brexiters are having a complete meltdown, saying Brexit deal will make Britain: - a slave state - like Bosnia after the Yugoslavian war - a colony Which would be hilarious if a) they weren't destroying the country and b) Britain hadn't actually colonised and enslaved millions

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  19. Nov 14

    Things Donald Trump has called the "worst deal in history" or "worst deal ever": NAFTA, WTO, Iran agreement, Australian refugee agreement. Isn't it funny how these charlatans turned up and suddenly everything was the "worst ever"?

    Theresa May’s Brexit agreement is the worst deal in history.
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  20. Nov 14

    The “Swimming Pool” solution for Northern Ireland. Has anything ever been as botched as Brexit? This is sheer amateur night now.

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