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- Mayor of an Istanbul district (Bakırköy) announces she's moving to new opposition party, and... - Warrants go out on "corruption" charges for 68 people she's linked to - Her own father and uncle included www.bakirkoygazetesi.com/bakirkoy-de-...

Turkish girl group AURA singer targeted with apparent knife threat at concert turkeyunfolding.com/turkish-girl...

How the Century of Türkiye is going

Turkey seeks jail time for Manifest manager over shows ‘denigrating family’ turkeyunfolding.com/turkey-seeks...

Yet another opposition mayor arrested on vague corruption charges. Luckily the government is there to clean up Gotham and replace the bad guys with their own people.

The Silicon Valley AI accelerationists are getting spicy ideas

@selimkoru.bsky.social on how municipal politics in Turkey works now

It looks like businesses and capital owners will avoid literally trillions of lira in taxes due to proposed exemptions in 2027

Agreed, but also roughly as insane to consider Ashkenazis as native to Israel as it is to consider white Australians native to Australia, but also the white Australians shouldn't be ethnic cleansed, but also the native Australians shouldn't be ethnic cleansed #DoWeReallyHaveToSayAllThis?

The whole debate seems like a smartass response, like talking about "states rights" to justify Jim Crow laws

Gazeteci Murat Ağırel gözaltına alındı

Turkish court orders seizure of book on Marxist revolutionary turkeyunfolding.com/turkish-cour...

Huge blow to Turkish opposition medias: Turkish police raids Halk TV -channel, prosecutors appoint government trustee to run pro-opposition channel. Only a handful of medias left to criticize the government. (Why do I still get shocked, although expected?!) -- Reuters www.reuters.com/business/med...

X has complied with Turkey’s ban on the X account associated with the Worker’s Party (582k followers). When I said that international X/Twitter had always been fascist, this is what I meant.

Trump says Erdoğan ‘would do as I ask’ on possible Turkish role in Yemen turkeyunfolding.com/trump-says-e...

The Turkish Labour Party's Twitter account is censored

Nails in the coffin of free media in Turkey have been many, but this is the big one

I've been up since 4 AM this morning working on a past-due draft on the many ways that the Turkish government has weaponized the judiciary to harass, dislodge, and jail opposition leaders. Then I look at the news. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Political prisoners / Days in prison Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ / 3,628 Kavala / 3,280 Gezi Park leaders / 1,630 Ekrem İmamoğlu / 571 Tanju Özcan / 225 34 other CHP mayors / various

Erdoğan advisors split over announcement that people buying cigarettes will need to hand over their ID card numbers

Stealing from a Gülenist to give to an Epstein-ist... Interesting

Soon it will be commonly understood that opposition politicians winning elections spend their next years in jail - it will be seen as a faintly absurd stunt to even try, like heroic investigative journalism

via @huseyinedemir.bsky.social: Status of the mayors of Turkey's largest cities: 1. Istanbul: jailed 2. Ankara: free for now 3. Izmir: switched to AKP 4. Bursa: jailed 5. Antalya: jailed

The two choices for opposition mayors in Turkey: Mayor of Izmir latest to defect to AKP on same day the jailed Mayor of Mersin is forced from his job.

Looks like Turkey's golden passport could finally get some major play

Vahap Seçer dahil üç belediye başkanı görevden uzaklaştırıldı www.diken.com.tr/vahap-secer-...

Mayor of Mersin among 17 opposition politicians arrested in "corruption" probe today. Amazing how pre-peace process it was all Kurdish mayors who were criminal, and now it's the secular opposition mayors

I can imagine Turkey providing specialists, advisors, and technology. Large scale troops? No.

via @turkeyrecap.bsky.social Since October 1st there have been judicial/police raids on 5 more opposition-controlled districts in Turkey (4 CHP, 1 Yeni)

Reactionaries inspired by the Turkish government's campaign against gays and lesbians mount attack on Japanese Culture Festival

Someone sharing the agenda of Moroccan intelligence duped the Canadian media using fake AI freelancers: www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...

Turkey detains three more opposition mayors turkeyunfolding.com/turkey-detai...

Turkish prosecutors cite two men dancing in obscenity case against singer Mabel Matiz turkeyunfolding.com/turkish-pros...

Turkish government loves censorception.

Turkey has ordered X to block the account of the Freedom of Expression Foundation, which documents what sites have been censored

Türkiye Foreign Visitor Entries Fall as Greece Jumps 15% in Mediterranean Divergence www.bosphorusnews.com/article/turk...

The head of Istanbul's Planning Agency, jailed as part of a crackdown of opposition figures, has been refused permission to attend his uncle's funeral

Independent liberal news site T24 banned in Turkey as part of the recently declared "My Family is Safe" war on tolerance of homosexuality

Biden milkshake ducked after becoming accessory to ethnic cleansing

Türkiye Refereeing Board Chief Ferhat Gündoğdu Among 7 Detained www.bosphorusnews.com/article/turk...