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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 hours ago

    Since TRT World deleted the article from its twitter account immediately after my tweet, here’s a link to the article on the website

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  2. 11 hours ago

    This piece performs two functions: 1) A shamelessly baseless piece of propaganda masquerading as journalism. 2) An attempt at damage limitation after a typically tough and well-prepared HardTalk. Congrats, TRTWorld.

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  3. 16 hours ago

    Not to diminish ’s admirable hospitality to refugees and migrants...but there are 193 countries in the UN so the claim by that Turkey hosts migrants from 190 nations is, er, interesting

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  4. 16 hours ago

    A guy in my gym just looked at himself in the mirror and kissed his own biceps. I have now seen it all.

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    22 hours ago

    This week in Turkey news. Turkish FM: Trump working to extradite Gulen to Turkey. White House denies. Turkish FM: arrests of Gulenists under way in New Jersey. NJ denies. Turkish FM: Turkey to consider working with Assad if he’s democratically elected. Turkish FM denies.

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    Dec 17

    WATCH: On board ’s ‘eye in the sky’ watching Syria - ’s report for .

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  7. Dec 17

    ’s Foreign Minister and Finance Minister (President ’s son-in-law) are accused by US prosecutors of running a secret $530,000 campaign through ’s former National Security Advisor to lobby against in Washington.

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  8. Dec 17

    ’s airborne warning and control planes, or Awacs, monitor the skies over , helping the anti- coalition. We were given rare access on board the “eyes in the sky”. Our piece, with

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  9. Dec 17

    And yet here he is, at 0.30, saying that if Assad won a democratic election, "I think everybody should consider" working with him

    Turkish Foreign Minister denies that he ever said Turkey would work with Assad if he wins a democratic elections
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  10. Dec 17

    "There are no journalists in prison in convicted for what they write", President 's senior advisor tells , rejecting monitors that find Turkey is the world's biggest jailer of journalists. Cracking today

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  11. Dec 17

    I spoke too soon.

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  12. Dec 17

    So while we wait for Yeni Şafak, this was an AKP MP’s take: that Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband are Jewish and they support Israel - so that somehow explains her sinister support for . (A reminder, these guys are in government).

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    Dec 16

    Erdoğan: Foreign leaders are shocked when we say 'look, there's a railway system going under the sea'

    Erdoğan: Yabancı liderler, bak denizin altından raylı sistem geçiyor deyince şaşırıyorlar
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  14. Dec 16

    Recycling the conspiracies

    Turkish foreign minister says “Pastor Brunson was a CIA agent.”
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  15. Dec 16

    Whoops... ’s new acting Chief of Staff called him a “terrible human being” during the race in 2016. Cue the Oval Office tweetstorm...

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    Dec 14

    A brilliant new way to get people to exercise in Russia. If you do 30 Squats, you get a "Free Train Ticket 🎫

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    Dec 14

    For the 3rd consecutive year, Turkey is the world’s worst jailer of journalists, says

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  18. Dec 14

    *that* video, along with subtitles. All going swimmingly.

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    👀 Theresa May: "What did you call me? You called me nebulous. Yes, you did. nebulous. Nebulous, yes you did." Mr Juncker replied: "No I didn't, I didn't."
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  19. Dec 14

    I can’t wait for Yeni Şafak’s take on this

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  20. Dec 13

    What a legend. He’ll be so missed.

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    'From me, a happy Christmas and not goodbye, but goodnight' David Dimbleby receives a standing ovation from the panel and audience as he says goodbye to BBC Question…
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