'Last night, the Belgian police raided the TV studios of Sterk TV and Medya News, two Kurdish channels that broadcast from Denderleeuw' (Belgium) - NAVBEL.

And May 1st, and practically everything else

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nin seçimle göreve gelen ilk rektörü Üstün Ergüder okula alınmadı

politikyol.com/bogazici-unive…

Mayor ⁦⁦Ekrem İmamoğlu⁩ watching President Steinmeier cutting Döner.

My Twitter (X) homepage is churning with posts by Turkish advocates of improved relations with the EU expressing disillusionment about the latest EU Council conclusions which effectively linked any progress on Turkey-EU relations to the progress of Cyprus talks on RoC terms.

the steady stream of Norwegian government statements on Gaza have been interesting, keeping it brief

Erdoğan cancels trip to Washington over Israel aid

In this special edition of the Weekend Read, we conclude our Spring Meetings with a statement by the IMFC, a seminar on capital flows, regional outlooks for Europe, Africa and Latin America, plus a conversation with Türkiye’s finance minister. Learn more: linkedin.com/pulse/weekend-…

Reports Turkey might be considering becoming Hamas' main address in the world, with Hamas perhaps leaving Qatar. Time will tell, and if it does, I will comment more in detail on it. But I do think this will be a huge strategic and tactical mistake on behalf of Turkey if it does.

U.S. HOUSE APPROVES:

• Potential TikTok ban
• $60.8 billion for Ukraine
• $26.4 billion for Israel
• $8 billion for Taiwan

It now goes to the Senate

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Head of Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Istanbul.

The meeting addressed the issues about Israel's attacks on Palestinian territory, especially Gaza, what needs to be done to ensure adequate and uninterrupted delivery of

When you're not sure if it's a protest against Israel (against shady foreigners), for Israel (against Ben&Jerry's) or anti-Syrian (tear down the al-gida signs!)

To recount: Israel attacked Iran's consulate, killing 16. Iran retaliated with a symbolic show of force, killing no one. Iran is being sanctioned, and Israel (who started this) is demanding an invasion of Rafah in exchange for not continuing to escalate towards WWIII.

Is the weird double-standard the US appears to be applying to Israel vs. Ukraine about limiting the chances of nuclear warfare? open.substack.com/pub/phillipspo…

Israel really wants war with Iran, probably because its far-right government knows it can manipulate the US better in an electoral period reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Israeli news covering the upcoming Mavi Marmara-2nd Gaza Flotilla-14 years after the original boat was taken over by Israel, killing 9 activists, 8 of them Turkish, as they tried to break the blockade. With Turkey-Israel relations at rock bottom time will tell how this plays out.

Wait until you hear about Andalucia

Based on the reports coming from friends on the ground, something is *extremely* off with prices in Turkey.

Normally there's always some analogy to some other case elsewhere but in this case... feels like uncharted territory?

My best guess (super-speculative) is that the

The face of modern far-right ideas is somehow a mixed-race American in Romania pretending to be a Turkish girl to wind up Germans