Both my Iranian and American friends at the moment trying to blow the whistle on the treatment of peaceful protestors

There are people in America being killed at protests for doing the right thing and standing up for their friends and neighbours. Difficult to add anything to that from so far away.

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

If you don't have the attention span for reading Animal Farm, here's a version brought up to date: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Hidden message in Stranger Things

Clearly, the US could not have offered Maduro the opportunity to leave the country for Turkey without Ankara's knowledge. This is not surprising as aligning with the Trump administration is a priority (arguably also a necessity) for Erdogan, despite contrary voices within the regime.

A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.' User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

Yet another instance of Erdogan getting zero credit for pioneering a populist-autocratic trend.

And to a random little campus of Yıldırım Beyazıt University, it looks like

Work to begin next year on a metro line to Ankara Airport

By banning the locally-made shows of foreign streaming services, the state broadcaster can keep media narratives on its desired path
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Ünlülere uyuşturucu operasyonu: İrem Sak, Aleyna Tilki ve Danla Bilic gözaltına alındı - Medyascope İstanbul Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı’nın başlattığı uyuşturucu soruşturması kapsamında Aleyna Tilki Danla Bilic ve İrem Sak gözaltına alındı.

Presumed future President Bilal is clearly seeking to eliminate the political threat of a strong independent Aleyna Tilki medyascope.tv/2025/12/18/i...

Ever worry that the algorithm knows you too well?

Love rebranding startups without double checking anything

4 years, 2 months given to Fatih Altaylı

Just r/turkey

From Reddit - the second generation of Syrians are now growing up in Turkey without any right to work

Anyone know which websites the 1,000+ footballers (and 300+ referees) used for their illegal betting?

I'd like to see if the odds moved before the public information came out on which players were being banned!

Getting to the endgame:
- Turkey's opposition presidential candidate faces 2,352 years behind bars
- Head prosecutor of Istanbul province applies for the closure of the main opposition party

After the opposition party won the Turkish Cypriot presidency, Devlet Bahçeli has called for:
1) The Turkish Cypriot parliament to no-confidence the president
2) Turkey to take the pseudo-state over

Deren Talu bağımsız kurumda test yaptıracak; Defne Samyeli'den açıklama: Operasyona da ATK'ya da güvenmiyoruz, devletin uyuşturucuyla mücadelesi kocaman bir soru işareti! Deren Talu bağımsız kurumda test yaptıracak; Defne Samyeli'den açıklama: Operasyona da ATK'ya da güvenmiyoruz, devletin uyuşturucuyla mücadelesi kocaman bir soru işareti!

At least one of them is claiming they got dinged for anti-depressants.

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Turkish police mounted an operation where they randomly drug tested a load of actors and influencers... and 8 of them were apparently unlucky enough to have traces in their hair or blood.

So "government officials" got the regulators to approve the sale of big media companies to supposed criminals before all the latter's assets were seized. Convenient for their mates who wanted to sell the media companies.

Discreetly, the commission responsible for amending the constitution, composed solely of AKP members, met every week this summer. While the work could be completed in four months, some within the party are already calling for a referendum and general election to be held simultaneously.

İstanbul Altın Rafinerisi'ne dev operasyon! Çok sayıda gözaltı var... İstanbul Altın Rafinerisi A.Ş. ve bağlı şirketlere operasyon düzenlendi. 21 kişi gözaltına alındı.

Arrests at Istanbul Gold Refinery over "systematic" abuse of export subsidies to the tune of millions of US dollars
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized | CNN Israel’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how.

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YouTube video by mabelmatiz Mabel Matiz - Perperişan feat. Ko Shin Moon

The Mabel Matiz track he faces 4 years on obscenity grounds for is a banger

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Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'ne konser operasyonu: 13 kişi gözaltına alındı Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin 2021-2024 yılları arasında düzenlediği 32 konserle ilgili operasyon başlatıldı. 13 kişinin gözaltına alındığı belirtildi.

Crackdown on Ankara municipality: more than a dozen people have been arrested over corruption allegations linked to concerts organized by the municipality in recent years -- btw, Ankara CHP mayor Mansur Yavaş even more popular and dangerous potential rival to Erdogan. kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...