prevents us from grasping the dynamism of the process. Nothing is over; this is an ongoing struggle. Wwe must stop understanding the complex relationship between authoritarianism and democracy with those regime classifications. They're not helpful.
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1) Its too election centred; what is going on in Turkey now is partly about pre-determining the outcome of the next election but also goes beyond that. Its about the elimination of particular way of ding politics represented by Ozgur Ozel - more dynamic, energetic and challanging. 2) It also+
Every email I receive from a journalist about Turkey begins or ends with the same question: has Turkey stopped being competitive authoritarianism? I respond all of them by saying: 'competitive authoritarianism' isn't helpful to understand the situation neither in Turkey nor in the US, for instance.+
It's said a plate of soup made of bovine bellies and legs can cure ulcers and an assortment of other ailments if you're courageous enough to try it.
Homeric hangover cure: Greek claim over ancient bovine belly broth stirs feud with rival Turks
It’s said a plate of soup made of bovine bellies and legs can cure ulcers and an assortment of other ailments if you’re courageous enough to try it.
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"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."
Turkish prosecutors seek up to 3 years for 11 people over protesting trade with Israel #HumanRightsForAll
Turkish prosecutors seek up to 3 years for 11 people over protesting trade with Israel - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkish prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to three years for 11 people who staged a sit-in outside a government trade office in the northwestern province of Bursa to protest Turkey’s…
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Minister: Turkey preparing for compulsory ID verification for all social media users bianet.org/haber/minist...
Minister: Turkey preparing for compulsory ID verification for all social media users
A free expression group accused the government of "aiming to build a digital panopticon."
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Turkish lawyer briefly detained after seeking to record client’s torture claim #HumanRightsForAll
Turkish lawyer briefly detained after seeking to record client’s torture claim - Stockholm Center for Freedom
A Turkish lawyer was briefly detained Wednesday on accusations of “slander of a public official” after he insisted on having his client’s torture allegations recorded in a police report in İzmir, the…
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A DW correspondent was arrested in Turkey yesterday. DW Director General Massing calls for his immediate release: "The fact that a journalist is being treated like a serious criminal, taken away by 30 police officers and brought directly to Istanbul, serves as a deliberate act of intimidation."
DW correspondent arrested in Turkey
A correspondent, who has been with DW in Turkey for several years, was arrested in Ankara on February 19. He was taken to the headquarters of the Istanbul Provincial Police, the highest police authori...
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The @bostonglobe.com and its sister publication @statnews.com win George Polk Awards — the Globe for its reporting on Rümeysa Öztürk, Stat for covering "the erosion of the FDA and the disruption of American scientific research." #journalism liu.edu/polk-awards/...
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Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe rule of the AK Party in Turkey and the ayatollahs in Iran is rapidly persuading Turks and Iranians that a strictly sexual approach to government is best and that those who talk non-stop religion are usually both inept and corrupt. Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization.
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“What are you doing about the reverse vampire problem”
Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt will surprise y’all to hear that there are no “Muslims taking over the state” and there is no “sharia law” in Texas that threatens anyone. This is genuinely disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7mo ago🚨I’ve been saying this 2+ years now: We don’t know WHY WaPo was suddenly hugely unprofitable and started this downturn in 2023, because Jeff Bezos’s friend Patty Stonesifer barred investigation.🚨 It is becoming more and more obvious this was a premeditated murder, long before he cut the editorial.
I am horrified on behalf of my friends and colleagues who were affected. I am horrified as well by the implications for a country that is already awash in bullshit and badly in need of access to real reporting.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo agoWaPo laying off entire Middle East team
Turkey/Türkiye related mentions in the Epstein Files As of February 2, 2026, the publicly released Epstein Files include several references to Turkey, focusing on allegations of international trafficking, diplomatic contacts, and broader geopolitical implications. However, as far as I could see,…
Turkey/Türkiye related mentions in the Epstein Files
As of February 2, 2026, the publicly released Epstein Files include several references to Turkey, focusing on allegations of international trafficking, diplomatic contacts, and broader geopolitical implications. However, as far as I could see, no major scandals so far! Most Turkey-related references in the newly released Epstein Files are incidental or contextual, with only one clearly substantive email exchange linked to an Istanbul institution.
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✏️ #Birth Record Inscribed by an Ottoman Father on the Blank Page of a Manuscript: “On the night of March 17, 1817, at 11, my noble daughter Aisha Siddiqa has honored the world with her arrival. May God the Exalted make her esteemed in both worlds, and grant her to be a blessed successor. Amen.”
There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.
New at Media Nation. Before Minneapolis there was the Boston Massacre. In 1983, I wrote my master's thesis on how the press of Colonial Boston covered it. dankennedy.net/2026/02/02/b...
Before Minneapolis, there was the Boston Massacre. My 1983 thesis on how the press covered it.
All of a sudden, the Boston Massacre is in the news. Journalists and historians such as Josh Marshall, Radley Balko and Ted Widmer have all written essays in recent days arguing that the uprising a…
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Boston Massachusetts today a large crowd of people came to show solidarity with Minneapolis. A Nation United against ICE and tyranny.
Here’s why I think this is largely misguided: that such speedy backsliding has been achieved without *the need* for “policy changes” is not an illustration of the resilience of institutions: it shows how compatible with autocracy those institutions were to begin with. www.ft.com/content/b474...
How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?
The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up
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‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths?
Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full...
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The Shadow Network Drawing Fish in the Sand with Their Feet
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 7mo agoJesus weeping and throwing up Christ it's not a goddamned "shadow network" it's NEIGHBORS protecting their NEIGHBORS
