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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 27

    The fundamental problem in Turkey’s judicial system is not the laws or regulations, but their unfair and incorrect implementation. Judges and prosecutors prefer to ignore laws when it comes to politically sensitive issues such as insulting the president

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    15 hours ago

    Turkey, Libya sign maritime deal to counter Greek drillings • Turkish media call the agreement a 'historic step' to stop 'Greek exploitation' of maritime rules.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    Happy thanksgiving to my American followers and whoever prefers to celebrate! Despite all the endless complaints about the dinner conversations every year, it is still a great American tradition.

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Macron’s magnifique foreign policy: • “NATO is brain dead” • “Russia isn’t NATO’s enemy” • Let’s take Russia back to G-7 • Vetoed Albania’s, North Macedonia’s accession to EU • French military bogged down in Mali (13 killed this week) • Bosnia is a “ticking time-bomb”

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  5. 14 hours ago

    And all this time people were looking at Trump to find out whether he is a Russian asset...

    Macron says allies' common enemy is not Russia nor China, but terrorism.
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  6. 15 hours ago

    Egypt declares Turkey, Libya agreements on security cooperation and maritime zone as “illegal”, per Sky News

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  7. 16 hours ago

    Erdogan meets Iraqi Kurdistan PM Barzani in Ankara. Barzani made his first trip abroad as PM to Turkey. Earlier today, in a joint presser with Turkish FM, Barzani reiterated the importance of Turkish - Kurdish partnership in the region and his stance against PKK

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    16 hours ago

    Turkey has decided to take several steps to overhaul its criminal justice system, one being the First Judicial Reform Package. This is a move in the right direction, but fails to substantially reform the system, writes :

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Should I create a daily newsletter on Turkey-related news that would include top stories, suggested readings and short analysis?

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  10. 24 hours ago

    Turkey has blocked a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and Poland AFTER some alliance members, including the United States, blocked another defense document at which the YPG was mentioned as a threat to Turkey, per Hürriyet daily

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  11. Nov 27

    Turkish drone producer Bayraktar denies the Guardian story, which reported that Bayraktar imported missile racks from a British company in 2016 to circumvent a US export ban and design their own system “We have never bought it from them. Designed our own, much improved version”

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    Nov 27

    TURKEY'S LEGAL REFORMS: POSITIVE BUT NOT ENOUGH by via

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  13. Nov 27

    The EU/US should continue to encourage such reforms, to improve the standards of Turkey’s justice sector and democracy. Pushing against human-rights abuses in Turkey without taking the moral high ground would be the best way for EU/US to make progress

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  14. Nov 27

    My debut article for regarding Turkey’s latest reforms on the justice system: • Political considerations, such as allying govt with secularist bar associations, played a role • Main aim was to repair the system following the electoral defeat

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  15. Nov 26

    Hilarious art work

    Gönül isterdi ki tuval+akrilik çalışayım pastel boyayla eziyet çektirdim kendime
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  16. Nov 26

    Turkey successfully tests and adds another locally produced weapon to its arsenal. An air-to-air missile: Bozdogan

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    Nov 25

    this is quite the makeup tutorial

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  18. Nov 25

    Here is the video. Turkish F-16s are today used to test Russian made S-400 missile defense system’s radar

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  19. Nov 25

    Of course the catch here is that Turkey uses US-designed F-16s to test a Russian made-radar . The Congressional legislation blocks further updates for Turkish F-16s and sale of F-35s once S-400s activated

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  20. Nov 25

    Turkey is testing Russian made S-400s radar in Ankara, per Turkish media reports and a defense official speaking to Bloomberg However Turkish Defense Ministry neither confirms nor denies it. They just say they conduct tests on a continuing air defense system project

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    Nov 24

    Kaynağın gazeteciyi kandırmasının, yanıltmasının, yanlış yönlendirmesinin haber değeri yok, duayen olarak sizin birazcık sorgulamadan (telefonu kapalıydı’ durumu kurtarmıyor) ‘müthiş haber’ başlığıyla double check vazgeçtim meslektaş lafıyla yazmanız sorun

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  22. Nov 24

    A must-read by You can actually understand how isolationist Americans are by watching popular tv show Friends or reading The Great Gatsby

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    Nov 24

    The PKK has killed more than 150 teachers since 1984.

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    Nov 24

    Mada Masr published several sensitive scoops before. The website was blocked, one of their writers was interrogated, but in general the team was left alone. Hell broke loose after the report on President Elsisi's son.

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  25. Nov 24

    Olmuş mu?

    Turkish main opp CHP has become a laughing stock in Turkey following a fabricated report that claimed Erdogan had met a senior CHP official in an effort to topple the current chairman.…
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  26. Nov 24

    Turkish main opp CHP has become a laughing stock in Turkey following a fabricated report that claimed Erdogan had met a senior CHP official in an effort to topple the current chairman. Fake news yet it triggered an intra party clash between 2 main groups, Kemalists and leftists

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  27. Nov 23

    Şu CHP olayını İngilizce nasıl anlatırım diye düşündüm. Bir çıkar yol bulamadım. O derece saçma sapan bir olay

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    Nov 23

    Bir gazetecinin "haber kaynağının"; başka bir gazeteci olduğu günler yaşıyoruz! "Gazetecilik duayeni" denilen kişiler gazeteciliği ne hale getirir oldu...

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  29. Nov 22

    Turkish sources had previously accused Dahlan of transferring money to putschists on behalf of the Emirati government during the failed coup attempt in 2016.

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  30. Nov 22

    Last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Dahlan of being a “terrorist ringleader”. “He is an Israeli agent. That’s why he has fled. We know that [UAE and Saudi Arabia] have tried to replace Palestinian President Abbas with him. We all see this,” he said

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  31. Nov 22

    Turkey will add exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan to its most-wanted terrorist list, with a $700,000 reward for help tracking him down, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced on Friday

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    Nov 22

    According to a Metropoll survey conducted after the N Syria invasion in October, among those who define themselves as Kurds: 35.8% support AKP while 39.2% support HDP. The figures in September (pre N Syria invasion) were 22.5% for AKP and 46% for HDP.

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  33. Nov 22

    The Turkish Prime Minister’s race to the top. Boris Cansın of Çankırı

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  34. Nov 21

    • Not even mentioning the fact that Erdogan was able to use the WH as a platform to disseminate his talking points through international media giants for at least 15 minutes in a non-interrupted speech. • Domestically, it also looked good for him

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  35. Nov 21

    Ankara sees Erdogan’s US visit a success because: • S-400 sanctions have been postponed again • Erdogan got his S-400 study commission with Kalin, O’Brien • Senate’s Syria sanctions bill seems postponed • Senate’s Armenian Genocide bill is also blocked

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  36. Nov 20

    Istanbul Sehir University, an elite institute Turkish conservatives hold dear, now pays the price for Erdogan, Davutoglu feud - Sehir cannot pay salaries b/c state-owned Halkbank got its assets frozen - Professors worry that govt will seize Sehir

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    Nov 18

    NEW - Two Twitter employees allegedly accessed data of 6,000 users & shared it w/Saudi officials. But who were the 6,000 users? I asked Twitter & the FBI if they had warned them. They won't comment:

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    Nov 18

    Good morning, here's our series of stories based on 700 pages of top secret documents from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. This has never happened before:

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  39. Nov 16

    The death toll in Syria’s Al Bab is now at least 18, per Turkish media reports

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