Ayça Türkoğlu

@aycatur.bsky.social

Literary translator from German & Turkish, little woodland creature and professional dweeb.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on ita young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car a collage shows three young men smiling

Oh my God. Anas had one of the biggest platforms among journalists in Gaza. He was just killed in a targeted strike on the Al Jazeera tent. Comes after Israel targeted and murdered hundreds of other journalists. This is intentional and purposeful to erase news coming out of Gaza. No doubt.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 12mo ago

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.

Been off social media for Lent but now I'm back and get to engage with the most heart-sickening news stories on multiple platforms again. So, happy Easter, free Palestine, trans liberation now, and autistic people are people worthy of everything. RFK fuck off xxx

Love how every single liberal party strategy is “moving right wins elections” then when moving right repeatedly fails to win elections cause they’re running against OPENLY RIGHT-WING PARTIES they just go “Well clearly we didn’t move right enough.” Like even a child could tell you what’s wrong

I made so much borscht last night that I had to transfer it to a jam pan halfway through cooking to fit in all the ingredients. Anyway, it was truly and surprisingly delicious. Sorry to all the borscht lovers for being a hater.

I feel like 2024 was a total write-off of a year for me. So nothingy. Worse than 2016, when my dad died. At least I got to sit in a lot of pub gardens that year. Apologies to anyone who saw me last year, basically.

Yesterday, I reconnected with an old college acquaintance from Gaza. I asked how his family was doing. There was a brief pause. Then, in a quiet voice, he said, “I’m okay… but my wife and babies were killed. Our home was destroyed.” I was stunned. I didn’t know what to say.

V amused to learn at the doctor’s yesterday that they couldn’t work out what to do with ‘Half Turkish, half English’ as an ethnicity, so they’ve put me down as ‘Southern European’.

Ahmed Naji & Katharine Halls, about Ahmed's ROTTEN EVIDENCE. "I wrote about the tough men I saw there... The image that first inspired me to write this book was of a thick mustache soaked in tears and an old man who couldn’t stop sobbing like a child." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

McSweeney’s Books: An Interview with Author Ahmed Naji and Translator Katharine Halls

Katharine Halls won the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her work as translator of Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence...

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