Andy Wilks

Turkey wary of Israeli threat following airstrike on Hamas in Qatar

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Free speech is only for bigots attacking women and minorities

Pregnant, panicking… then the bomb struck | The Observer Her name was Diana Koshyk and she was 23 years old. She liked to write poetry and paint, and she was the “love of my life”, says her husband Oleksandr Ko...

Her name was Diana Koshyk and she was 23.

She liked to write poetry and paint, and was seven months pregnant with a son she named Damir. She was killed in a Russian missile strike last week.

My first story for @observeruk.bsky.social

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Fenerbahçe faces nationalist backlash over stadium naming deal with Chobani The announcement comes at a time when Turkey is pursuing a renewed Kurdish peace initiative.

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British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.

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Emine Ocak artık oğlunun yanında | Agos Cumartesi Anneleri’nin sembol isimlerinden biri olan ve dün yaşamını yitiren Emine Ocak, Gazi Cemevi’nde dini vecibelerinin tamamlanması sonrası, 1995’te gözaltına alınıp işkence edilerek öldürülen oğ...

Emine Ocak never gave up on fighting for what’s right. We should all try to be a bit like her www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/3529...

Just in case you need to charge your phone while having a piss #burasıtürkiye

Norman Tebbit, one of the most divisive figures of 80s Britain, is dead

Presidential adviser Yiğit Bulut is battling terminal cancer, according to journalist Cem Küçük. He is remembered for saying “foreign powers” targeted Erdoğan with telekinesis and that he had “plenty of bullets” for the president’s enemies

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The lucky scarf did it’s job #COYS

Massive congratulations to Palace fans. Seems like a win for proper football #cpfc #facup

Russia and Ukraine hold their first direct peace talks in 3 years amid low expectations Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have met in Istanbul for their first direct peace talks in three years.

BREAKING: Russia and Ukraine agree to swap 1,000 prisoners of war each, according to the head of Moscow's peace talks delegation.

Istanbul, City of Barriers

Lawyers’ group says more than 200 arrested in Istanbul’s May 1 demos before midday

The whole thing was pretty disgusting

I guess because it’s increasingly difficult for them to attend conferences outside Turkey. In part at least

No surprises here. Rumeysa’s ordeal is a travesty, and makes every American in Turkey more vulnerable to persecution for their views.

Just as Rumeysa was a Turkish Fulbright Scholar in the US, I was a Fulbrighter in the other direction. Her treatment sickens me deeply.

Watched Lavrov being hailed a “diplomatic rock star” in Antalya this weekend as he bemoaned “nazist” efforts to destroy Russian culture. Unfortunately, that culture is overshadowed by this barbarism, which is all most people think of when they think of Russia. That’s down to Lavrov and his boss

2 leading Turkish journalists are detained on charges their newspapers say are based on their work Turkish newspapers say two leading journalists have been detained over what they say are false charges stemming from their work.

2 leading Turkish journalists are detained on charges their newspapers say are based on their work
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Well-known investigative journalists Timur Soykan & Murat Ağırel were detained this morning in Turkey after a complaint by suspects in a money laundering case. Their homes were searched & their digital devices confiscated. FMA calls for their release because #JournalismIsNotACrime

Turkey’s ‘Roma’ groups have felt the earthquake’s impact more than others Romani, Abdal and Domari communities have had a harder time accessing aid and support post-quake.

Today is International Romani Day, to celebrate the culture and recognise the difficulties facing Romani people.
Here's a story I wrote last year about the discrimination faced by Roma earthquake survivors in southern Turkey. With great pics from @hemra.bsky.social
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Barrister says “there’s credible evidence that Brits have been directly involved in committing some of those atrocities.” Individuals should be “appearing at the Old Bailey to answer for atrocity crimes”.

Turkish interior minister said recently that, on average, 510 people died every month in traffic accidents last year - 6,120 a year. In Germany, which has a slightly smaller population, 2,759 died in 2024 (Statistische Bundesamt)

Not many customers at Espresso Lab in Maltepe today (mostly cops)

Turkish prosecutors want up to 3 years in prison for detainees in anti-government protests Pro-government media in Turkey say prosecutors have requested up to three years’ imprisonment for 74 people detained for taking part in the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.

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Zero today 🤣

TİP Students utilising Pikachu for the revolution. “Who’s left that didn’t resist”

Saraçhane'de polis müdahalesinin görüntüleri ortaya çıktı: Geriye gençlerin ayakkabı kulesi kalmıştı AYRINTILAR halktv.com.tr'DE

Images of police “interventions”at Istanbul protests
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Home page of Anadolu Agency, Turkey's state-run news agency, has one story relating to the jailing of Istanbul mayor and nationwide protests against the govt - the justice minister lecturing foreign journalists on the independence of the Turkish judiciary