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BBC Turkey Correspondent. Previously based in Athens and Belgrade. Portugal in my heart. All views my own.

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  1. 11 minutes ago

    Yep, really.

    Government ally BBP's leader Destici said "PKK, PYD and YPG are at the forefronts of / protests in France."
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  2. 2 hours ago

    Pinned tweet. 's state mouthpiece is pushing this story hard.

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  3. Dec 8

    Trump and Erdogan have the answers

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  4. Dec 8

    Did anyone tell him the Paris agreement was about the environment?

    The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France.
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  5. Dec 8

    Right. Remember when western media gave Gezi live coverage and we were labelled “terror propagandists”?

    gives protests live coverage
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  6. Dec 8

    It’s one of those “I have to go Christmas shopping and buy for my family...oh do they have that in my size?” afternoons

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    Dec 7

    The 306 words Trump has written about Rex Tillerson on twitter:

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  8. Dec 7

    “Dumb as a rock”. A whole new dictionary of superlatives is needed for these tweets.

    Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!
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  9. Dec 7

    Rex on : he's "pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports...I would have to say to him 'Mr President, i understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"

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  10. Dec 7

    From Djibouti to Venezuela, Cuba to Kosovo, is building mosques around the world in a mix of soft power, neo-Ottomanism and competition with the other big mosque-builder, Saudi Arabia. Wonder what Turkish taxpayers make of it, amid growing economic worries at home.

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  11. Dec 7

    A moving insight into why we report from the most dangerous, heartbreaking stories - from an extraordinarily intrepid, courageous and lovely colleague,

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  12. Dec 6

    Perhaps getting rid of opposition posters completely would be the meaning of “no visual pollution”

    Erdogan, who called for eco-friendly “no posters in public” election campaign, is the Sakharov of politics. He controls 90% of Turkish media. If the opposition follows his suggestion, lest they be seen as polluting, they’ll have nearly 0 public visibility
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    Nov 23

    Tiyatro bir kez yaşanır, her tiyatro deneyimi bir el yazısı kadar benzersizdir! Bir el yazısı da, festivale 2016’da “Zululuzu”, 2017’de “Before” ile katılan yönetmen Pedro Penim’den.

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    Dec 5

    The Germans not having a word for shitstorm is the final humiliation we deserve.

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    Ich habe früher ‚Neuland‘ gesagt, das brachte mir einen großen Shitstorm ein. Jedenfalls ist es in gewisser Weise noch nicht durchschrittenes Terrain. - Kanzlerin zur Gestaltung d. Gesellschaft in Zeiten d.Digitalisieru…
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  15. Dec 5

    “Abi bi taksi aç, bana 5 yıldız ver” is, I’m pretty sure, not how the taxi driver rating system should work.

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  16. Dec 5

    issues arrest warrants for fmr dep chief of intelligence Ahmad al-Assiri & closest advisor to Saud al-Qahtani for killing, saying they don’t believe Riyadh will take formal action against them. US Senators increasingly convinced of MBS’s complicity

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  17. Dec 5

    We’re rockin’ it

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    Dec 4

    Not a smoking gun for MBS involvement in Khashoggi killing but a 'smoking saw', says after CIA briefing

    “You have to be willfully blind” to believe MBS didn’t orchestrate Khashoggi killing, says. He says Pompeo being a “good soldier” last week when he said there was no direct evidence
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  19. Dec 4

    Through thick and thin, good times and bad, this member of the bureau always stays loyal. Meet Osman.

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    Dec 3

    For the love of the fans... how sumo wrestlers in Japan sign autographs ✋💥

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    ＜冬巡業＠久留米市＞色紙に手形を押す高安。
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