🧶As we pass the 100-day mark of the politico-judicial operation against Istanbul mayor #İmamoğlu, I've compiled a few resources in 3 blog posts to get a better grasp of the scale of this event (which isn't over): 1) a detailed timeline of the operation + medium.com/@Mayis_Sikinti…

NEW: Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show Sofia Cherici and Aylin Elçi in this New Lines Magazine investigation. newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-…

Officials in Gaza say more than 100 people have been killed during the last 24 hours - many of them while trying to get hold of humanitarian aid. One Israeli air strike killed at least 13 members of a single family, including six young children. And footage obtained by the

Turkey’s arrest spree is so relentless, keeping up with domestic politics these days feels more like reading the daily court docket. Today alone, dozens of opposition mayors and their staff were arrested, a university student was detained for tearing up his diploma in protest

And the arrest spree continues this morning with mayors of three major cities detained. Erdogan regime has vowed to destroy the opposition and the remains of Turkish democracy.

Istanbul police detained Timur Soykan, one of Turkey’s most respected, reputable journalists. His detention comes after dozens of arrests, investigations targeting the opposition. Soykan is known of his in-depth reporting about corruption claims re President Erdoğan’s government.

Turkey's state news agency describes the restoration of an 11th century Armenian cathedral in the ruins of the Armenian city of Ani without using the word Armenian once, and describes the cathedral as a mosque (it was briefly converted to a mosque when the Seljuks invaded).

This ideology's complex-laden obsession with symbolic conquest doesn't cease to produce the most absurd initiatives...

His greatest hits include claims that foreign powers were seeking to kill Erdoğan using telekinesis, that German airline Lufthansa was behind the Gezi protests, and that foreign TV chefs were engaging in spying activities as they traveled around Turkey.

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More like a reflection than a cause. The best way to "solve" the Kurdish issue is to democratize the whole system and society, which is exactly at odds with everything the government does and stands for.

Family arrested for listening to Kurdish music, police brutalize them, including kicking pregnant woman in the stomach, who then has emergency c-section, and both mom and baby are in critical condition. During the so-called 'peace process,' these things still happen in Turkey.

The repressive machinery in 🇹🇷 goes unabated: yesterday Ekrem İmamoğlu got a jail sentence that could also disqualify him for running for Pres. & there are now 17 CHP mayors dismissed. We all support a "Terörsüz Türkiye" but what's the point if it is in a "Demokrasisiz Türkiye"?

Selahattin Demirtaş Selahattin Demirtaş has long championed a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question and a democratic future for both Kurds and Turks. The ruling coalition claims these are the very goals behind its outreach to Öcalan. Yet despite a binding ECHR ruling, Demirtaş’s

A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Kılıçdaroğlu on voting for lifting parliamentary immunity: "It was not a mistake, we don’t regret it."