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For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?

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Report on the steady ramping up of anti-LGBTQ measures in Turkey

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Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta 777 sandıktan 735'i açıldı: Tufan Erhürman oyların yüzde 63,28’ini aldı Cumhurbaşkanı seçimine giden Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta 777 sandıktan 735’i açılırken, CTP Genel Başkanı Tufan Erhürman oyların yüzde 62,80’ini, Cumhurbaşkanı Ersin Tatar oyların yüzde 35,77’sini aldı.

Northern Cypriot Turks have today elected pro-federation candidate Tufan Erhürman for their new president by landslide victory. Erdoğan-backed Ersin Tatar, who promoted two-state solution for the divided island, has lost. Turkey still holds the key to any future talks. www.birgun.net/haber/kuzey-...

Should have been Woody Allen.

Wild guess, but maybe a medium format? 🫣

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

The possibility that the UN will have to relocate out of New York before 2028 needs to be taken more seriously

Erdogan’s Irredentism Just Can’t Keep Up As international norms crumble, Turkey’s revisionist policies appear less provocative in comparison.

My latest from @foreignpolicy.com

"Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison.

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Bizarrely, Qatar has been bombed by Iran & Israel since June. It hosts a major US military base, which should deter such attacks but clearly isn’t.

In 2011, Qatar began hosting Hamas officials at the USA’s request.

And it channeled money to Hamas w Netanyahu’s blessing.

These are crucial details.

🔴 Caferağa’nın afet toplanma alanı lüks konut ihalesine açıldı

🎙 Kadıköy Caferağa Mahallesi muhtarı Hanife Dağıstanlı Yağmur Yıldırım'a anlatıyor

⏰ Şehir Hepimizin Medyascope YouTube kanalında

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Some thoughts on the most recent assault on the CHP:

1) As the regime's loyalty test with the CHP fails to achieve the desired outcomes, the CHP leadership is exposed to accelerated and aggrevated forms of domination test.

The way I see it, it's a matter of time until the regime takes over the CHP. The task for the resistance is going to be to make the power dynamic obvious to the public. This isn't easy to do.

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The unambiguous return of a single-party state to Turkey will coincide with the final end of the party that built its first such state. I have a lot of thoughts about this, one of them being that we’re here mainly because of the CHP’s inability to get out of its own way.

YouTube video by Kakhaber Kutateladze Adriano Celentano - Wood distorting

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The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980) Ornella Muti and Adriano Celentano in The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)

IMDb: Ornella Muti and Adriano Celentano in The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
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But I think about this guy now when I’m reading about investors who aren’t taking Trump’s policies seriously, whether economic or political. They are also hedgehogs, and it is their job to get a return. All this “other stuff” is noise, right up to the moment when it isn’t.

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

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 🧵
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“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...