My report from #Diyarbakir on #TurkeyElections SE Turkey is a stronghold for #YSP /#HDP - a pro-minority party heavily targeted by Erdoğan. Monday’s results brought heartbreak to supporters & fear of a future under Erdoğan resurgent. aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/16… via Al Jazeera English

Top-ten list—% electoral support for Erdogan across Turkey’s provinces and West European polling stations: 1. Clermont-Ferrand 92 🇫🇷 2. Lyon 88 🇫🇷 3. Orleans 87 🇫🇷 4. Bayburt 82 🇹🇷 5. Hasselt 81 🇧🇪 6. Essen 78 🇩🇪 7. Salzburg 79 🇦🇹 8. Antwerp 77 🇧🇪 9. Yozgat 76 🇹🇷 10. Rize 76 🇹🇷

Mass deaths at sea are to the EU what mass shootings are to the US. - It keeps happening. - And every time, politicians pretend to be concerned. - And every time, politicians keep in place the government policies at the root of the problem. - And it keeps happening.

🎉 GREAT NEWS! We are thrilled to announce that today we broke the years-long siege on the #Rukban camp in southern Syria. Despite Assad and his allies Russia and Iran, we were able to deliver aid to residents for the first time in a very long time. setf.ngo/breaking-the-s…

Exclusive: Syrian regime organised feared ghost militias, war crimes researchers say reut.rs/3rfSAz7

The UN Security Council will vote again on Monday to renew permission for the UN to deliver humanitarian aid to northwest Syria aje.io/m9utqz

🇬🇧 urges the UN Security Council to expand and extend its mandate to deliver cross border aid into #Syria. My comments to Al Jazeera English here 👇

Russia blocks UN humanitarian access to northwest Syria. Rather than work arounds and performative outrage, US/UK/EU must now demand continued UN delivery on the basis that permission has been arbitrarily withheld. It's legal and it doesn't need a Security Council mandate.

UN raises concerns over Syria aid route from Turkey, cites 'unacceptable issues' reut.rs/44rJNZo

Amid Gaza War, Israel Ramps Up Home Demolitions in West Bank By: Andrew James Waller buff.ly/3BA64uB