This is hardly news to any renter who lives in Istanbul, but the average rent in the city has gone up a whopping 606% since 2021 while the number of landlords opening legal cases to evict their tenants increased by 349% from 2020 to 2024.

Funny how ICE who is so allegedly fighting undocumented gang members has only managed to round up normal working class people, traumatize children, and fight US citizens in the streets.

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying"
-- anon

As a Latin American, it’s so cute that people in this country now think they have experienced inflation…

CBO says Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add 3.8 TRILLION to the national debt.

Fiscal responsibility, my ass.

Taner Akçam's speech at the unveiling of a memorial in Berlin to the 1938 Dersim Genocide, commenting on the relevance to ongoing genocides.

"The value system that emerged in response to past genocides—along with the institutions and principles built on those values—is crumbling before our eyes."

Massive rally in Izmir showing coastline

Massive rally Izmir

Massive rally Izmir

A rally of over one million people in Izmir on May 19 - the day marks the start of Turkey’s War of Independence. It’s a public reclaiming of national identity in defiance of a regime that has spent years trying to narrow it. Memory marched louder than fear. #3E #TurkeyProtest
(📸 Oz The Cat Herder)

Trump, on the leader of Russia:
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”

It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signs ‘Emily’s Law’ to alert when Native Americans go missing Arizona’s "turquoise alert" legislation is also referred to as “Emily's Law” to honor Emily Pike, whose remains were found on Feb. 14.

Arizona’s “turquoise alert” legislation is also referred to as “Emily’s Law” to honor Emily Pike, whose remains were found Feb. 14 more than 100 miles from a group home she left in Mesa, Arizona, in late January.
coppercourier.com/2025/05/14/a...

Trump doesn't have “conflicts of interest” anymore.

A “conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation where Trump might choose his own interests over the nation’s.

But Trump isn’t conflicted about anything.

He's the most corrupt president in American history.

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

Per Amberin's sources, the offer from the government is 50,000 political prisoners released, including Demirtaş, improved living conditions for Öcalan, and de facto acceptance for the autonomy of Syria's Kurdish regions. Potentially huge win for PKK and DEM, but what about ordinary Turkish Kurds?

Fuck ice so much

So he kept *different* phones for shorties and shady stuff

Pope Leo XIV's Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity.

“The pope’s grandparents migrated to Chicago around 1910, like many other African American families leaving the racial oppression of the Deep South, and ‘passed for white.’”

Pope Leo’s Louisiana Creole heritage sheds light on African American Catholic history:

apnews.com/article/pope...

Best Twitter riposte of the day

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

My Mom died of cancer.
My grandparents died of cancer.
My best friend died of cancer.

Many of YOU, Democrats and Republicans, have friends and loved ones who died of cancer.

Cutting cancer research is evil AF, and we should ALL agree on that. If we can't, we're cooked.

I should have cross-posted it then, but was too busy.

It’s too long to post the entirety here, but I attached some screenshots above of the beginning (predictions) & below of the latter half (recommendations), based on my experiences in Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, etc.

Anaokulu ücretleri Oxford’u yakaladı Özel okulların 2025-2026 eğitim öğretim yılı için geçerli olacak yeni ücretleri belli olmaya başladı. Kolejlerde eğitim ücretleri 200 bin TL’den başlıyor, 1 milyon TL’ye kadar çıkıyor. Üstelik buna kı...

Private pre-school fees in Turkey now on a par with Oxford University...

Lebanese Armenian refugee women from 1915 also did this - and interestingly enough it was called a shirket. The practice is being revived. EVN Report wrote about it. Let me find the article for you. www.instagram.com/p/DGgRWKuN9h...

A massive fire that broke out on Wednesday in the area of Tbilisi’s Station Square market in Tbilisi destroyed many warehouses. No injuries have been reported, but hundreds of vendors have suffered significant financial losses.

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An Enduring Quest for Remembrance and Reconciliation The 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory in Istanbul sheds light on dark chapters in Turkey's history through the story of one remarkable man.

The 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory in Istanbul sheds light on dark chapters in Turkey's history through the story of one remarkable man. Read more in my latest newsletter: istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/a-enduring...
@hrantdinkvakfi.bsky.social @hrantdinkfnd.bsky.social

Free Bahruz Samadov International Academic Community Calls for the Release of Young Azerbaijani Scholar Bahruz Samadov

Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz

www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...

I've encountered a few people arguing that tariffs are good, actually, because they will force us to consume less and while I think our consumer culture is problematic in many ways, I don't think things such as 'food' and 'medical supplies' fall under the category of unnecessary purchases.

Good luck today Canada!! 🇨🇦 We’re thinking of you. Don’t allow what happened to the USA happen to you.

Dear media,

We're going to need you to stop being polite with trump, stop using kind words to describe his bullshittery, his grifting, and his absolute CHAOS.

When he lies, call it LYING.
When he grifts, call it grift.
When he acts like a fucking fascist, call it that.