Ahmet Necati Uzer

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

BBC Turkce interactive map of judicial engineering affecting metropolitan municipality in #Turkey :

🟠 : metropolitan municipality

🔵 : arrested metropolitan mayor

🔴 : detained metropolitan mayor

🟢: metropolitan cities where trustees were appointed
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CHP mayors of Adana, Antalya, and Adıyaman detained by police. I guess they're saving the Bs for tomorrow.

Turkey's main opposition party is now getting the same treatment as its Kurdish-majority opposition party has been getting since 2016

Erdogan Is Angling to Remain Turkey’s Ultimate Authority Turkey’s constitution says Erdogan must leave the presidency when his term ends in 2028. He’s already maneuvering to stay in power.

Non-paywalled version of my new piece for @wpr.bsky.social on how Erdoğan is maneuvering to become the guardian of the system he has designed around himself: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/turkey-erdog...

I resisted that label for many, many years, but at this point when the *two* top opposition leaders are in prison and journalists go to jail for this kind of language, what else can it be?

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

The ultimate test of domination it is that Turkey's ruling elites apply to the CHP, the Istanbul metropolitan municipality, Imamoglu, and Ozel. It is a full-scale siege combining lawfare, demoralisation, and intimidation tactics against the opposition. Nothing less...

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

“Whole of government” On the Trump administration's far-right priorities

A new post on the administration’s “whole-of-government approaches” to higher education and immigration, and what it tells us about what the administration wants: nateschenkkan.substack.com/p/whole-of-g...

(Banging on the window of a guy talking on the phone in his car) hey man you’re in a filter bubble. Hang on (aggressively rattling the door handle) let me get in there and show you the most racist image you have ever seen,

People want the economic growth, innovation, and labor supply that migration provides better than anything else, but they want it without migrants.

That this Netanyahu government strategy is designed to trigger a scenario where Egypt and eventually other Arab states, Turkey and the EU are forced to take in large numbers of expelled people from Gaza as part of a forced mass displacement policy has been visible for 18 months.

The article is particularly enlightening on the Imamoglu operation. The intensification of arrests these days has two functions: 1) the search for confessors to fill an investigation file that is currently quite empty, 2) the total paralysis of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

That sound you just heard in the distance was me screaming bloody murder because those bastards cancelled #WheelOfTime.

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basic human rights? in this ecomony???

Interesting how some people ask if journalists with family background in the Middle East can report "objectively" about the region, but it's never asked if people with European background can "objectively" report from London, Paris or Berlin.

Abandoned space ships.

The Montreux Paradox: How a Ukraine Ceasefire Could Set the Stage for Escalation in the Black Sea - War on the Rocks Since spring 2022, Russia has been prevented from reinforcing its navy in the Black Sea by a near-antique international convention and some very

A truce in Ukraine could trigger a Russian naval build-up in the Black Sea and set the stage for new forms of escalation. The reason? A near-antique international convention and some very contemporary Turkish politics.

Read my latest at @warontherocks.bsky.social:

warontherocks.com/2025/05/the-...

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Fletcher: “I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you."

Now that the PKK has announced its dissolution, it cannot be said that euphoria reigns in Turkey. The fact that such an initiative has not yet won public support is a real problem, and something to bear in mind as the process continues.

Breaking news: PKK declares disbandment, ending four-decade armed insurgency against Turkey bianet.org/haber/pkk-de...

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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When I wrote graffiti my name was DOPE
Mom says clean my room and I say NOPE
Rhymes so tight they’re tied with ROPE
Pop out of bed like

This is a very human(e) addition about what students are being stripped of in the mad rush towards "AI". The heart of rebuttal is about those crucial things we try to educate towards: a flowering personhood, an adaptive, and curious, type of resilience. AI eats that stuff and leaves nothing behind.

Sırrı Süreyya Önder, one of the most interesting political figures of Turkey’s political opposition, especially of the post-Gezi period, has passed away. He played a crucial role in building bridges between Kurdish-centered left wing parties and the political mainstream.