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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 11

    What was behind CHP's different style of campaigning during this election? I talked to & Ateş İlyas Başsoy about the 'Radical Love Book,' the product of years of change within the party.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    It goes without saying that the journalists who've been stalked, targeted and blacklisted in the SETA report are amongst Turkey's finest, which is of course *why* they've been offered up on a de facto target-list.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    "There's one point in the report I agree with: The Turkish media shouldn't be dominated by foreign outlets' Turkish services. But this situation wasn't caused by foreign press outlets, but by the willful killing of the Turkish mainstream media."

    Bu raporda katıldığım bir nokta var: Türkiye medyası yabancı basın kuruluşlarının Türkçe servisleri tarafından domine edilmemeli. Ancak bu durumun sebebi yabancı basın kuruluşları değil anaakım…
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  4. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Raporun detayları 'nde:

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Evidently not the first thing the author of that already infamous SETA report has written about the media...

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  6. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Pro-AKP think-tank SETA goes systematically through the social media accounts of all the journalists working for international media outlets reporting in Turkish to find tweets and retweets they disapprove of...

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  7. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Don’t know why Erdogan does not just take the job himself. He seems to know better than financial professionals everything there is to know about monetary policy and central banking. Like Trump there.

    Turkey fires Central Bank governor: • Erdogan was unhappy about bank’s decision to keep rates steady • Erdogan asked for resignation, Governor refused, citing bank’s…
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  8. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    The municipal security cameras around Dikmen Valley in Ankara turn out to have been controlled from the house of former mayor Melih Gökçek, which is located overlooking the valley

    Ankara'da güvenlik kameralarının kayıt ve kontrol sistemlerinin Melih Gökçek’in evinde kurulu olduğu tespit edildi. Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi ihtar çekti
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  9. 11 hours ago

    When your country oozes ancient history out of its ears.

    AKP Kocaeli Darıca Municipality placed rocks on the road by the coastline to prevent vehicle traffic; one of the rocks turned out to be a historic remnant.
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  10. 21 hours ago

    Tanıdık geliyor 🙄

    Taksiye bindim adama selam veriyorum selamı almıyo, gideceğimiz yeri söylüyorum mutsu oluyor, 36 lira tutmuş 40 veriyorum üstü kalsın diyorum surat 5 karış. Abi ne istiyosun sırtına masaj mı yapayım, götür beni gittiğin yere mi diyeyim, evi üstüne mi yapayım,nafaka mı bağlayayım?
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  11. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    The Mayor of Silifke in Mersin has shot and killed his sister in an apparent "honour" crime after she separated from her husband and started living alone.

    MHP’li Mücahit Aktan’ın silahla vurduğu kız kardeşi hayatını kaybetti
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  12. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    The Court of Cassation also ruled that and did not violate the Constitution but found that they "willingly and knowingly aided the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" instead. Requests for release were rejected. Details are to come.

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  13. Jul 5

    Wow, wonderful news.

    Turkish high court of appeal overrules life sentences for Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak! Yargıtay'dan Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan ve Nazlı Ilıcak hakkında flaş karar!
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  14. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    The application of families of Öcalan, as well as the other inmates on İmralı to visit the island has been rejected.

    PKK Lideri Abdullah Öcalan ve İmralı’da bulunan diğer tutukluların ailelerinin İmralı’ya gitmek için yaptığı görüş başvurusu reddedildi.
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  15. Jul 5

    This looks quite interesting. A free PDF book, Who's Who in Politics in Turkey, made with support from & ?

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  16. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    'nın albümünden , video klibiyle YouTube kanalında! Yönetmen: İ. Çağrı Aygün Performans: Genco Gülan Söz & Müzik: Düzenleme & Mix: Taner Yücel Mastering: Chris Sansom

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  17. Jul 3

    Would have loved to have tweeted this a month ago, but now that I’m back in Istanbul, I can’t resist posting a photo from our *Turkish* household, of a *Turkish* dish brush...

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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    In Europe, June 2019 was fully 2°C warmer not than the preindustrial but the *1981-2010* average.

    Graphs of June temperatures for Europe and the global average from 1979 to 2019
    Wow, June 2019 was the hottest on record and greater than 2°C above the 1981-2010 climate average in Europe. The average global temperature was also the highest on record.…
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  19. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    The police at the courtroom have beaten the families who lost their family members in the in Çorlu; thanks to lawyers' efforts the families could enter the courtroom but the court judges have exited from the courtroom. via/

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  20. Jul 3

    New Zealand and Scandinavia have evidently been making Canada look bad for a very long time...

    When did women get the vote? Image: Reddit/u/kumquat_may
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  21. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    Turkey has experienced the hottest June of 48 years, announced meteorology with an average of 23.4 degrees while last year the average was 21.3.

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