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    Nov 16

    My story about the controversial mega-project is now up on . Many thanks to excellent Serbian journalists and for their assistance in finding sources!

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  2. 8 hours ago

    If only people in the Middle East had thought of that...

    Macron has just committed to hiking the minimum wage, scrapping taxes on pensions and scrapping a tax on overtime work. Why? Because people protested. Those who say protest doesn't work have again been proved wrong - and that should encourage us all to take to the streets. …
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  3. 8 hours ago

    Once is a typo. Twice is he actually thinks it’s spelled that way.

    “Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...
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  4. 10 hours ago

    On average 23 people per minute put under investigation in Turkey last year. One hundred and thirteen children below the age of 15 charged with insulting the president between 2015 and 2017.

    Turkey’s Chief Public Prosecutors are investigating a total of 11,985,118 people as suspects, according to data for the year of 2017
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  5. 14 hours ago

    Oh man...

    1. Today I did the annual story on holiday decorations at the Governor's residence. I've done it every year, for years. A very light but very fun story. Every year my reporting partner was Wendi Winters. This year, it was Selene. Wendi was murdered in June.
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  6. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    Great to see continued progress on Western accession today. opens 1 new chapter: 27) & Now opened 32/35 Chapters. opens 2 new chapters: 17) Economic and Monetary Policy 18) Statistics Now opened 16/35 Chapters.

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    17 hours ago

    Peoples Democratic Party HDP headquarters in has been raided by police, 23 TJA activists who had started in solidarity with imprisoned HDP deputy Leyla Güven, have been detained. /

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    17 hours ago

    We're at that stage in the witch-hunt where secular Kemalist columnists get charged with "aiding the Gülen movement"

    SON DAKİKA | Emin Çölaşan ve 4 kişi hakkında FETÖ iddianamesi
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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 9

    “There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him, that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time”

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  10. 17 hours ago

    "The Fact Checker has not identified statements from any other current elected official who meets the standard other than Trump. In fact, 14 statements made by the president immediately qualify for the list."

    Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again - The Washington Post
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  11. Dec 9

    Ok the whole western world is now officially on the verge of collapse. ?

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  12. Dec 9

    "1.1 million local government workers have been deployed to ethnic minorities' living rooms, dining areas and Muslim prayer spaces, not to mention at weddings, funerals and other occasions once considered intimate and private." ?

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  13. Retweeted
    Dec 9

    I don’t mean to sound like a dick but at Gezi we never did this. Fights for rights are one thing, fights to get Apple goods are another

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  14. Dec 9

    Evidently, not all of Paris is burning.

    ... this morning! A paddle race on the river
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  15. Dec 9

    Anecdotes like this are why I'm rereading 's Lords of the Horizons, a marvelous history of the Ottoman Empire. “They could fire arrows backwards from the saddle at a moving target, at a rate of three a second.”

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    Dec 9

    Reporting on protests in Serbia these days. Manipulative, openly pro-government and ridiculous. Just like in the good old days, just more fashionable

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    Milanovic i Vucelic u fazonu “Braaaaateeeee.”
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  17. Dec 8

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    1. Quick thoughts on what's happening in France, after I've been out this morning watching gilets jaunes in Paris. Purchasing power has long been a bigger problem in France than in other western countries/
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    Dec 8

    Serbian opposition stages a huge protest rally in Belgrade.

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    Dec 8

    In a protest against “political violence” and the silencing of dissenting voices in Serbia, thousands of people in Belgrade are currently protesting on the streets. The mass of people are now walking towards the building of Serbia’s public broadcaster, RTS.

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  20. Dec 8

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    Those following the . Right now a large anti-government protest is happening in Belgrade, . Serveral thousand in the crowd.…
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    Dec 8

    A few thousand people have gathered in central Belgrade for a protest organised by the Serbian opposition against “political violence”.

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