Turkey’s media watchdog has taken oppositon news channel Sözcü TV off air for 10 days for “inciting the public to hatred and hostility” for its coverage of ongoing protests around the country.

Imagine getting deported from a country where you’re a legal resident. A country that calls itself a democracy. A country whose most prestigious government scholarship, the Fulbright, you won. All because you coauthored this nuanced & articulate op-ed in the student newspaper ⬇️

Well this week has been quite an experience, detained by Turkish police while covering the anti-government protests and deported. Here’s my full story. Do take a read if you can - and thank you to everyone for kind messages and support: bbc.com/news/articles/…

Israel has created a self-fulfilling prophecy in Syria. It has spent months bombing and raiding the country because of hypothetical threats. And now, predictably, it has engendered enough hostility that it is starting to face real threats

Trump on Marine Le Pen: “witch hunt… using lawfare to silence free speech… censor their political opponent… so far as to put that opponent in prison.” Trump on Ekrem Imamoglu:

Russian ballistic missile hits a restaurant on Friday night in Zelensky’s home town of Kryvy Rih. At least 12 people killed including children. Russia clearly wants peace.

Turkey and Israel are becoming deadly rivals in Syria. Together with ⁦Piotr Zalewski⁩ in The Economist economist.com/middle-east-an…

Our latest, with the great Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר, on Turkey’s showdown with Israel over Syria economist.com/middle-east-an…

Two more journalists - Murat Ağırel ve Timur Soykan - arrested in Turkey this morning

Erdogan’s top rival was hauled off to prison almost two months ago but refused to be silenced, thanks largely to platforms like X. And so:

Our latest, a team effort led by Shashank Joshi, on whether, how and when Russia might attack NATO economist.com/briefing/2025/…

Big moment in Turkey. The PKK has decided to dissolve and lay down arms - statement.

The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Brinks, who just resigned, goes nuclear on President Trump Brinks: I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy: to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia. 1/

Mornings these days as a journalist in Istanbul: 1. Coffee 2. Check the news to see if anyone you're scheduled to interview from the municipality has been arrested

In the 1980s Israel allowed an Islamist group in Gaza to start gathering weapons, in the hope that it would fight Fatah, Israel's main enemy at the time. That group went on to become Hamas. Glad to see everyone has learned the right lessons from history nytimes.com/2025/06/05/wor…

Turkey “strongly condemns Israel’s airstrike against Iran,” calls it “a provocation that serves Israel’s strategic policy of destabilization in the region”, according to MFA statement. Turkey “calls on the intl community to take action to prevent the war from spreading.”

Erdogan: Turkey to ramp up production of medium and long-range missile stocks “in light of recent developments.” “Hopefully, in a short period of time, we will have reached a level of defense capacity where no one will dare even challenge us.”

A huge & unforced error by Zelensky, right when White House policy looked to be moving in a slightly more favourable direction for him.