Fatih Öyük

What came after Imamoglu investigation is even disappointing for pro-AKP side. It was already absurd to claim Imamoglu and his team were stealing millions, not because they're pure, but they were under immense pressure by the government.

I think this move might have been motivated by a sincere hope that certain actors in CHP would hand over Imamoglu to AKP, but the public reaction forced these certain actors to change their play. I started to think he can actually be released in few days.

Global framework and the pacifization of Kurdish political movement definitely provided perfect timing for this operation, but govt. does not seem to be very determined to imprison Imamoglu. Instead, they seem to choose observing the general picture for a couple days and make their next move.

How can the regime change completely all of a sudden while the most watched TV channels and news outlets are pro-opposition? My feeling is that elemination of Imamoglu was not solely an AKP project and had a serious support from CHP and other opposition parties.

I see many people comparing the outcome of new regime in Turkey to Russian case, but this seems a very weird comparison to me. Putin does have the support of a vast majority of Russians. You can't simply run a government in Turkey without the half of the country's consent.

If you look like this before your 50s, you must've had a pretty rough life. I mean colonizing India.

I officially have more followers here than my Twitter account with almost no posts. You know what that means...

I don't know if the Turkish government has plans for post-Assad Syria, but the worst-case scenario would be an unstable and fragile democracy that would end in a military takeover. Even for the Turkish government, a stable Assad regime is way better than an unstable Syria with too many armed groups.

Is Italian government trying to say 'although all our educational institutions think that you're qualified to pursue degree in our universities, we just don't want Turkish students in our country'? Isn't taking this action only against Turkey-based students a very explicit form of racism?

Sign the Petition Change the name of this bird to “Türkiye”

Guinea fowls have three names in Turkish: most popularly beç tavuğu (Viennese chicken), İran tavuğu (Persian chicken) and Tokat (a city in Turkey) tavuğu. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

I also support changing turkey bird's name to Türkiye!

www.change.org/p/change-the...

This pretty much explains the issue. However, IMO, çulluk doesn't look like turkey. This is why some linguists believe it wasn't 'çulluk' that was known as Turkey bird, but it was guinea fowls.

from West Indies, as it was known as Hind-i Garbî. French also called it 'dinde'. Portuguese called it 'peru' probably because they first encountered it in South America. In Arabic it's known as Roman maybe because they called çulluk 'dīk rūmī'? Rūm (Roma) referred to the Asia minor for a long time

similar to Turkey, which is known as 'çulluk' in Turkish. This bird was already famous in Europe as 'turkey bird' because it was coming from Asia minor. Colonialist thought the North American bird was 'çulluk' and continued to call it turkey bird. In Turkish, it's called hindî because it was coming+

What's even more complicated is the bird called hindî (Indian) in Turkish, 'peru' in Portuguese, 'الديك الرومي' (the roaster of Rūm/Roman) in Arabic, and as 'Ethiopian bird' in some others. What's up with this bird? Tekin said European arriving to Americas confused the turkey with another bird +

As he writes, once Giancarlo Casale asked the famous Turkish linguist Şinasi Tekin about the etymology of turkey. It isn't weird to call a bird with a country's name, but as well known, turkey is endemic North American. If there was no turkey in Turkey, why the bird was named after Turkey?

Thanksgiving is on the way and I'd like to clarify the confusion regarding the name of turkey (bird) and Turkey (country). Turkish government is so sensitive in this topic that they convinced the world to call the country with it's Turkish pronunciation of its name, which is actually an Italian word

However, after the May 14th elections, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu explicitly said people living in rural areas of the country are still watching TRT (Turkish public TV channel), which is why they voted for Erdoğan. I really want to see real studies in this regard.

It was also the case in *some other countries*, but I'm not sure how effective it is. IMO, if a media outlet changes its political lineage its audience turns to other channels that represent their views. The problem is not that people are fooled, but channels are forced to polarize their stands.

Going back to Twitter guys, it was good to know y'all

I wasn't aware of this list, now a huge responsibility falls upon I guess.

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I was lucky enought to get hundred new followers with an account in which my last post was seven months ago. I'm afraid to post anything now, what if people find out I'm not even fun? Anyways, this account is definitely luckier than my account in the birdie one, 300 followers in six years...

I realized I am not spending much time on Bluesky because I don't see the content that makes me furious. It's all so good here. I understand the importance of ragebait even better now.

We should all go to somewhere sunny. Let humans migrate like birds now!

We need to go back to the nature. Stop calendars and clocks now. I'll work when the sun rises.

I understand that in some places this is inescapable in winter. You have to wake up and leave your home before sunrise is total modern capitalist bulshit. The night didn't end man, keep it cool.

When I wake up, there are still two hours till the sunrise. This is complete madness. Every *morning* I have to get out of my bed in the middle of the night with no sunlight. It's like the whole country shifted to the night shift for winter.

"Xmas" feels like Muslim people trying to dechristianize Christmas.

Wait till you see our family photo.

Episode 3 of Marxism and Minecraft, where we continue our exploration of the Labor Theory of Value. Here we further explain the organic composition of capita... Minecraft and Marxism ep 3: Organic Composition of Capital

This guy on YouTube explains Marxist theory by playing Minecraft. Amazing idea.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3O...

In some religious high schools in Turkey, the primary foreign language was Spanish (maybe still is), and the students at the age of 15 had a whole prep year to learn Spanish, in contrast to Arabic or English. I wonder if they overemphasized the extent of Islamization in Latin America.