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@Ziya_Meral

A researcher with a focus on Turkey, Middle East, defence, security, conflict, and religion issues.. Tweets, views expressed are personal

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    27 Sep 2014

    Personal twitter policy: Zero tolerance to trolls, personal slurs, disrespectful, spiteful comments. Limited engagement with anon accounts

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    14 hours ago

    fighter: "We fought in … When we were advancing, there was a building full of civilians… 's military came along later & their senior officer did not care at all who was inside. He just leveled it. We saw many things like that.”

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  3. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    This is beyond parody

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mom hopes she gets married soon
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    10 hours ago

    Wow. French Reporter appears to bust Bouteflika team at a Geneva Hospital. Bouteflika, 82 year old ailing President of , whose Government insists is back in country running for Fifth term.

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    13 hours ago

    Well, it's the anniversary of the poisoning, or, as some people would see it, the day that several GRU agents completely randomly descended upon the town of Salisbury to admire a famous spire. Here is a refresher on our work regarding this case

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    16 hours ago

    Seven Assad regime ministers added to the EU sanctions list today. Good - there can be no normalization with a regime still committing crimes against humanity

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    14 hours ago

    US military's strategic communication efforts to keep Ankara on the wagon....

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  8. 13 hours ago

    The city that welcomes and cares for its gentle rulers.. ❤️❤️ Istanbul..

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    17 hours ago

    Normalization in process: "Syria's parliament speaker travelled to Amman for an Arab inter-parlimentary meeting." via

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  10. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    Selected Sputnik Twitter accounts, by number of followers Sputnik Poland: 3k Sputnik UK: 8k Sputnik Italy: 8k Sputnik Germany: 20k Sputnik France: 63k Sputnik Mundo: 71k Sputnik Japan: 82k Sputnik Arabic: 161k Sputnik International: 242k Sputnik Turkey: 613k

    Critics reckon that Sputnik wants Turks to come for the coverage of Turkish politics and stay for the pro-Kremlin spin
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  11. 19 hours ago

    Sorry.. but this city never fails to melt my heart..

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  12. Mar 3

    Rolls-Royce dials back on project to build new Turkish fighter jet via

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  13. Mar 3

    Yemen ceasefire could collapse in weeks, says Jeremy Hunt

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    Mar 3

    Alternate headline: Brexiteers seek friendly journalist to write up so called peace offer which is nothing of the kind, and hope to gain support for no deal by sounding apparently reasonable while knowing EU can't agree to these demands.

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  15. Mar 3

    The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go

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    Mar 3

    Diplomatic missions. US: 273 China: 268 France: 266 Russia: 242 Japan: 229 Turkey: 229 UK: 225 Germany: 224 Brazil: 221 Spain: 215 Italy: 205 India: 181 Mexico: 156 Argentina: 155 Canada: 147 Indonesia: 133 South Africa: 124 Pakistan: 116 Saudi Arabia: 112 (Lowy Institute)

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    Mar 3

    The British papers remind us of the big picture. From the Sunday Times:

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  18. Mar 3

    A huge exercise

    As a part of Blue Homeland naval exercise, the Turkish Navy will open 67 ships in 40 ports to visitors in the next week. These ports include Batumi, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Constanta, Varna, Girne and Gazimağusa. This is an…
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  19. Mar 3

    All because..

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    Today we are closing our London offices after almost a quarter of a century. Thank you, London for being such a gracious host!
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  20. Mar 3

    Indeed

    I find all the intellectual time and energy wasted by academics on pointlessly debunking obvious bad faith grifters profoundly depressing. This isn’t what public engagement should have to mean.
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    Mar 3

    Just completed Yemen visit. My thoughts, from the port of Aden, on why the situation could spiral back quickly to full scale war and what needs to happen to stop that

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