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@RazAkkoc

correspondent in Turkey, based in the capital | Own views always; links/RTs≠endorsement | Obsessed with Turkey, now Macron too, did I mention Jupiter? 🇹🇷🇬🇧

Ankara, Türkiye
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Joined January 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Mar 2018

    This is late but Macron in a fez is the man I’ve been looking for

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  2. 41 minutes ago

    I would really like this brooch worn by Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan (forget Hale's spider brooch, the star and crescent is where it's at). If someone in 's team would like to share details with me, let me know.

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    13 hours ago

    Seriously tired of saying this. Racism is not an opinion, we should not treat it as such. Furthermore, getting this wrong places a disproportionate unacceptable burden on people of colour. This is a grave mistake by the . Full solidarity w

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    Sep 25

    One-time allies of President Erdoğan are on the brink of launching splinter parties that will openly challenge the ruling AKP. What is the significance of the rupture? big read on Ahmet Davutoğlu and Ali Babacan.

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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 24

    “I know him well, he's not going anywhere, don't worry about him.” President Donald Trump says Boris Johnson is “doing very well” and that “it takes a man like this” to get Brexit done.

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  6. Sep 24

    Reading David Cameron's book, For the Record, and I can't quite believe it has been so long since Cameron sought to "pave the road from Ankara to Brussels" and remembering Sarkozy's passionate opposition to Turkey joining the EU (lol).

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  7. Sep 24

    "The court is bound to conclude... that the decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue parliament was unlawful," Supreme Court head Brenda Hale said in the ruling.

    Decision to suspend UK parliament was 'unlawful': Supreme Court
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    Sep 24

    UK parliament can meet 'as soon as possible': Supreme Court

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    Sep 23

    Photo gallery by of the ancient Turkish town of Hasankeyf which is doomed to disappear underwater in the coming months

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    Sep 23

    UN chief announces creation of constitutional committee on Syria

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    Sep 19

    I swear my heart broke so many times making this report I lost count... We spent one month in one of Afghanistan's busiest hospitals, alongside the innocent people worst affected by this conflict, and the medics desperately trying to save their lives:

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  12. Sep 20

    BBC News Türkçe earlier this year went to Yozgat to produce a 26-minute video about the central city. For those ignorant of Yozgat (in Turkish)...

    The first visit of 2019 was Yozgat, yes really Yozgat. It’s a nice province, and a shame more of its history wasn’t kept. It has one of Turkey’s better clocktowers and the Hayri Inal mansion was really lovely to visit. I’m a fan,…
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  13. Retweeted
    Sep 19

    Turkey provides 70% of the world's hazelnuts – and the biggest buyer is Ferrero, maker of Nutella and Kinder Bueno. But how ethical is hazelnut production?

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  14. Sep 19

    The fez worked better

    The politicians “do relaxed” and unbuttoned with either no ties or no jackets fashion has to stop.
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    Sep 19

    David Cameron accidentally saying he “shat at the TV” when he saw the £350m bus on the screen is not getting any less funny

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  16. Sep 19

    I ask the mother, Ayse, how often she eats chocolate with hazelnuts. "I personally don't like it," she replies with a laugh. "The suffering and misery I have with this product, I don't want to see it." Is Nutella made with nuts picked by children?

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  17. Sep 19

    In the latest developments in Ankara of a non-political kind, the capital now has a place that does decent croissants 🥐 called Kruvasante.

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    Sep 12

    China’s move to outlay core parts of Uighur culture is an alarming sign to the community of Beijing’s intention: to assimilate Uighurs into a single ‘state-race’

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    Sep 12

    hapishaneleri. BBC'nin 1984'te çektiği belgesel.

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  20. Retweeted
    Sep 16

    Luxembourg PM empty podiums . They were meant to do a joint presser but Johnson pulled out. Brutal.

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  21. Sep 16

    Right now Erdogan and Putin are having a meeting after the former already held talks with Rouhani. Still waiting for the tripartite summit...

    Cumhurbaşkanı , Rusya Devlet Başkanı Putin ile bir araya geldi
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