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Turkey correspondent | Agence France-Presse

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Turquie: le journaliste français arrêté risque l'expulsion, alerte son avocate Le journaliste français Raphaël Boukandoura, arrêté lundi en Turquie alors qu'il couvrait une manifestation prokurde, risque l'expulsion, a alerté mercredi son avocate.
21.01.2026 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turquie: des arbitres de foot en prison, le scandale des paris s'élargit Un tribunal d'Istanbul a ordonné lundi le placement en détention provisoire de six arbitres turcs soupçonnés d'être impliqués dans une vaste affaire de paris, au moment où la Fédération turque de foot...

"Les championnats de troisième et quatrième divisions du pays, dans lesquels évoluent plus de 900 des joueurs incriminés, sont suspendus pendant deux semaines" @afp.com

10.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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28.10.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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«L’une des pages les plus sombres de l’histoire du football turc» : des centaines d’arbitres accusés d’avoir parié sur des matchs Selon une enquête interne, 371 arbitres possèdent des comptes de paris tandis que 152 parient activement. Certains arbitres évoluent au niveau national et les plus grands clubs turcs ont réagi.

« L’arbitrage étranger est désormais une nécessité pour rétablir un sentiment de justice dans le football turc » @afp.com

28.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Foot: bouchons d'oreille et antalgiques, plongée dans "l'enfer d'Istanbul" Kjetil Knutsen a "un très gros mal de tête": l'entraîneur norvégien de Bodoe/Glimt, défait 3-1 mercredi soir en Ligue des champions dans la bouillante enceinte de Galatasaray, avait pourtant eu la cla...

"C'est l'atmosphère la plus hostile dont je me souvienne (...) Un endroit de fous furieux" (@afp.com)

24.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With waters at 32 C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear Encouraged by increasingly warm waters, hundreds of species native to the Red Sea have moved into the eastern Mediterranean, disrupting ecosystems.
15.08.2025 08:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Course aux drones en Afrique : résultats incertains pour les armées, dévastateurs pour les civils Monde

"Quand vous payez des équipements militaires en Occident, il faut que ça passe par des accords politiques, des négociations. Avec la Turquie, nous avons une célérité que nous n'avons pas ailleurs, même pas en Russie ou en Chine” @afp.com

26.07.2025 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump confiant de pouvoir régler le « problème » entre Israël et la Turquie Donald Trump s'est dit confiant lundi de pouvoir résoudre le « problème » entre Israël et la Turquie à propos de la Syrie, faisant valoir sa bonne relation avec le dirigeant turc Recep...

« J'ai de bonnes relations avec un homme nommé Erdogan. Avez-vous entendu parler de lui ? Il se trouve que je l'aime bien et qu'il m'aime bien »

08.04.2025 05:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turquie: les autorités haussent le ton face aux appels au boycott Economie / finances
03.04.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turkey fines Meta for refusing to suspend protest-linked accounts Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday said it was fined a “substantial amount” in Turkey.
02.04.2025 07:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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In Turkey, new technologies reinforce repression With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify pr...

In Turkey, new technologies - including facial recognition, internet access restrictions, and online surveillance - reinforce repression of ongoing anti-government protests, @afpnews.bsky.social reports: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

31.03.2025 07:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hundreds of thousands join Istanbul protest rally Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have rallied in Istanbul calling for democracy to be defended after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which s...

MLSA co-director @barisalt.bsky.social told AFP Turkish authorities "seem to be very determined on limiting coverage of the protests".

She added: "We fear that the crackdown on the press will not only continue but also increase."

30.03.2025 07:24 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Turquie: quand les nouvelles technologies renforcent la répression Nouvelles technologies

"Chaque méthode de pression génère son antidote. Nous verrons bientôt davantage de vêtements, de lunettes ou de maquillage utilisés pour neutraliser les technologies de reconnaissance faciale" #AFP

30.03.2025 09:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hundreds of thousands join Istanbul protest rally Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have rallied in Istanbul calling for democracy to be defended after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which s...

"There is no other way than to keep fighting," protester Cafer Sungur, 78, told AFP. "I was jailed in the 1970s but back then there was justice. Today we can't talk about justice any more." #AFP

29.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Erdogan turns sights on opposition CHP with his main rival in jail With the jailing of Istanbul's mayor on corruption charges, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got rid of his most powerful opponent.It was a slap in the face for Erdogan, who lost Istanbul to CHP in 2...

"Crushing the CHP means crushing whatever is left of democracy in Turkey. More precisely, it means transforming Turkey's elected authoritarian regime into a fully authoritarian one" #AFP

With comments from @yunussozen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social

29.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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🔵 Le PDG de l'Agence France-Presse, Fabrice Fries, a appelé la présidence turque à "la libération rapide" du photographe de l’AFP Yasin Akgül, placé en détention pour avoir, selon les autorités turques, participé à un rassemblement illégal à Istanbul.

25.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 88    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1
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Crackdown on opposition tips Turkey into financial turbulence The arrest of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's leading political opponent has sparked a financial firestorm and thrust the hardline leader's economic policies under scrutiny.He has spent two y...

"It's very difficult to attract longer-term strategic foreign investors to Turkey in this kind of environment where even locals don't have a full understanding of what's happening," said Emre Akcakmak, a portfolio advisor at investment group East Capital

25.03.2025 07:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turquie: la contestation se durcit après l'arrestation du maire d'Istanbul Özgür Özel, le chef du Parti républicain du peuple (CHP, social-démocrate), première force d’opposition à laquelle appartient M. Imamoglu, a appelé les Turcs à sortir dans les rues à 20H30 (17H30 GMT)...

La contestation menace de s'étendre vendredi en Turquie avec de nouveaux appels à manifester en soutien à Ekrem Imamoglu, maire d'Istanbul et principal opposant au président Erdogan, au surlendemain de son arrestation pour "terrorisme" et "corruption" #AFP

21.03.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Istanbul & Ankara #AFP

21.03.2025 08:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 20, 2025. The data indicates ongoing widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including WhatsApp, Telegram, X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, Turknet with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.

Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 20, 2025. The data indicates ongoing widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including WhatsApp, Telegram, X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, Turknet with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.

⚠️ Update: it has now been 40 hours since Turkey imposed widespread social media and messaging restrictions amidst the detention of political opposition figures including Istanbul mayor Imamoglu; the incident continues to severely limit the public's ability to access information

20.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 35    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 6
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'Living in dictatorship': Istanbul mayor's arrest sparks anger "We're living in a dictatorship," said Kuzey, an Istanbul shopkeeper after police detained the city's popular opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on corruption allegations.

"Whenever Erdogan and his dirty team see someone strong, they panic and do something illegal to him"

19.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"On est en dictature": des Turcs en colère après l'arrestation du maire d'Istanbul Le quadragénaire en jean et veste noire, qui vient tout juste de lever le rideau, ne décolère pas contre le chef de l’Etat au pouvoir depuis 2003 et dénonce l’arrestation d’Ekrem Imamoglu, selon lui p...

"Autrefois, c'étaient les soldats qui menaient des coups d'Etat, mais aujourd'hui ce sont les politiques qui les fomentent"

19.03.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 19, 2025. The data indicates widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.

Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 19, 2025. The data indicates widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Turkey has restricted access to multiple social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok; the incident comes as Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and dozens of others are detained in events described by the opposition as a "coup"

19.03.2025 05:32 — 👍 376    🔁 241    💬 10    📌 48
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Trump begins major layoffs at Voice of America, targets US-funded media The Trump administration initiated mass layoffs at Voice of America and other US-funded media on Sunday, signaling a drive to dismantle outlets long seen as crucial for US influence. Following a mass…

"You must cease all work immediately and are not permitted to access any agency buildings or systems"

17.03.2025 08:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CEST Summer School – University of Turin, 24–31 August 2025 – CEST

The call for applications to the next CEST Summer School is now up on the CEST website:

🔹University of Turin, 24–31 August 2025
🔹Theme: "Turkey’s Culture Wars –– Culture, Politics, and Society Under Autocratization."

Please share widely!

cest-turkey.org/home/summerc...

14.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry. Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Divi...

AFP’s Rouba el-Husseini rummages through the mountain bunkers, luxury villas, and secret archives of the Fourth Division, Maher al-Assad’s military-commercial empire.

www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @afpnews.bsky.social

03.03.2025 10:55 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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"Il voyait tout blanc": en Turquie, l'alcool frelaté provoque une hécatombe Taskin Erduan pensait avoir fait une bonne affaire en payant ses trois litres de vodka l'équivalent de 15 euros. Mais deux verres ont suffi à le tuer.

Taşkın Erduan pensait avoir fait une bonne affaire en payant ses trois litres de vodka l'équivalent de 15 euros. Mais deux verres ont suffi à le tuer

24.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Families yearn for an end to PKK-Turkiye war DIYARBAKIR, Turkiye: A mother weeping for a teenaged daughter shot dead by a Turkish sniper and a father mourning a son killed by PKK militants are among countless families hoping that a new peace dri...

"I want the bloodshed to stop. I want a ceasefire. And I am not alone" - by AFP's Fulya Özerkan

22.02.2025 08:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Just two glasses': In Turkey, lives shattered by bootleg alcohol Taskin Erduan thought he'd got a bargain: three litres of vodka for around $15. But it took only two glasses to kill the 51-year-old hairdresser who worked at an Istanbul salon.

Taşkın Erduan thought he'd got a bargain: three litres of vodka for around $15. But it took only two glasses to kill the 51-year-old Turkish hairdresser

22.02.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bootleg liquor deaths revive debate on Turkey alcohol tax With 38 people dead in four days and 26 in intensive care after drinking bootleg liquor in Istanbul, the politically charged debate over Turkey's soaring alcohol taxes has swung back into the spotligh...

"The taxes allow the Turkish government to collect easy money while politically oppressing a certain lifestyle" #AFP

18.01.2025 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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