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Wow. Diplomatic pressure absolutely worked. Van Hollen got in, met with Mr. Abrego, and becomes the first person to have ANY meeting with any of the people sent to El Salvador on March 15.

Oh my God, oh my God we're becoming Turkey, it's really happening we're becoming Turkey.

This hasn't gotten enough attention! Over 1,500 students have had their visas revoked on mostly nonsense reasons, with ICE often telling them to leave immediately or be arrested. But then when sued, ICE suddenly started saying they don't have to leave, actually. It IS Kafkaesque!

Update: After Columbia | SIPA canceled my class on Race, Journalism, and International Affairs, More than 2,200 people have signed up to take it online. Blown away. Let's GOOO. You can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Turkish Ph.D. student is ordered freed from ICE detention after 6½ weeks

The PKK has disbanded itself, ending its long, violent campaign against Turkey. But will it work? For the most part, yes. Here’s a rundown 🧵of key actors: • The PKK’s ailing founder Ocalan, who has been in jail for 26 years, will get house arrest in the sunny Turkish Riviera ✅

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin is released from Turkish jail and is on a flight back home to Sweden. He will be able to attend his child’s birth this summer.

The Iranian government invited the The Washington Post to attend a conference in Tehran this week where officials warned nuclear talks could be at risk of collapse without a compromise on uranium enrichment washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…

You can go from Paris to London in the same time it takes to get from one end of Istanbul to another

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope for being the most patient and generous editor. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Last week to see “In Slavery’s Wake” at Smithsonian's Smithsonian’s NMAAHC! The exhibit powerfully explores horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for freedom and justice; my review for The Washington Post: wapo.st/42qxBbN

After enduring months of trauma, fear and hardship, my photojournalist friend Ahmed Deeb's brother was killed along with his wife & three of their children in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza tent camp last week. Donate to help the surviving family members: gofundme.com/f/help-my-fami…

Just realized Xi Jinping is Şi Cinping in Turkish, and can't get over how different it looks (!)

Scoop: The CEO of Boston Consulting Group apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run the controversial Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that supplanted the work of the UN to deliver aid to Gaza. W/ Cate Brown

After years of failed attempts to secure funding for its restoration, the Istanbul Greek Patriarchate has decided to transform the crumbling historic Greek orphanage on Büyükada into a hotel.

This is accurate for Turkey 😄

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

Iranian writer Sahar Delijani

We are outraged by the execution of Turki al-Jasser, a courageous Saudi journalist & writer who exposed royal corruption online. Our hearts are with his loved ones. Nearly 7 years since MBS ordered the brutal murder of #JamalKhashoggi with impunity, MBS has only been emboldened.

Thanks to Yeganeh Torbati for writing about Parnia Abbasi, a young poet who, with her family, was among the first Iranians killed in Israeli strikes washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…