New episode 📚👇 David Tonge (David S. Tonge) on “The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan” (Hurst Publishers) 🎧🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/27/dav…

David Tonge (David S. Tonge) has now written a book I'd love to read.

David Tonge (David S. Tonge) is a journalist and writer who has spent most of his life in Greece and Turkey. And his latest book is one that I must read. 21stcenturywire.com/2018/07/27/exc…

As Israeli forces kill 4 more journalists in Gaza, research shows more journalists have died there than the US Civil War, WW I + II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslavia wars and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Nobody’s gonna know.. 😅

Map shows the world in about 250 million years. Looks like cargo needs to travel the expensive land route rather than the cheap sea route then... Source: buff.ly/3wv2H27

Though many see Turkey and Russia as rivals in Africa, this map tells another story: Ankara and Moscow are forging defense ties across the continent. In Niger, Erdogan’s so-called ‘shadow army,’ SADAT, has reportedly placed mercenaries under Russian advisers. Meanwhile,

'Convincing in his conclusion'. Thank you, Lisa Anderson, for your review of 'The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey' in Foreign Affairs. share.google/cXsS8wPqTdnHJ5…

Thank you, Mary.

Thanks, Giles

Greece to formally recognize Bektashi Alevi Muslims in Thrace as religious entity dlvr.it/TLrgc5

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Greece in 1920, on an advertising card of the famous Swiss chocolate factory, Chocolaterie du Rhone.

I’m not usually nostalgic… 😉

NEW -- Israeli soldiers have been training in Britain throughout the Gaza genocide. Keir Starmer's government tried to keep their location a secret, but after months of research we've managed to find them. My latest with Phil Miller and Alex Macondo: declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-b…

Rachel Reeves - Labour MP for Leeds West and Pudsey since 2010. Rachel is Chancellor of the Exchequer. (A massive improvement on Kwasi Kwarteng I’m sure you’ll agree.) This is an updated post. Please be patient. Since 2021, Rachel has received the following donations and

I just finished reading Jon Lee Anderson’s must-read book, “To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban”. Few books capture why the mission in Afghanistan failed as powerfully as this one. As an anthology, it hits harder — the hopelessness is starker when these pieces are

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%. Zero point three per cent. The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%. Thirty seven point seven per cent. In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.

There goes the largest business hub of Pakistan, Karachi. Poor management, waste of resources, lack of trees, parks, and no drainage. It was an international port. Who killed the city?