Ruth Michaelson
@msrmichaelson
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Journalist covering Turkey & the Middle East. Bylines @guardian, sometimes others. [email protected] | [email protected] | PGP:0x000C3381
Istanbul
Joined August 2009
Hundreds of identical empty castles are crumbling near a village in the Turkish countryside. .@berileski & I followed their strange tale of how they came to be– and whether they'll ever be finished. For @guardian, with @bradleysecker +editing by @Rfearn
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RT @Andrew__Roth: I dug in to Musk's dismantling of USAid because it shows his playbook for capturing the whole federal government. What su…
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RT @luckytran: The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredibl…
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RT @MarquardtA: Trump's aid freeze meant *water* shipments stopped. So Rubio's @StateDept issued a new waiver expanding “life-saving humani…
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RT @FreedomForAlaa: A heartbreaking update from Alaa’s younger sister, Sanaa who went to visit Alaa in prison in Egypt yesterday on day 120…
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RT @BrettMmurphy: There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to ans…
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For decades, the screams from the basement prison in the Homs security directorate were audible in Taha Tadmori's third-floor apartment next door. Knocks on the door came every two months. Then in 2013 his brother was taken there. My piece w.Obaida Hamad:
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RT @FreedomForAlaa: CNN: Imprisoned Egyptian-British activist’s mother marks 100 days of hunger strike
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She “went to see” the wall but has somehow never looked at a map?
Suella Braverman tells LBC that Italy have "built a wall" on the "land border between Italy and Turkey" and insists that "I went to see" it
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"Cecilia was in Iran, with a valid visa, to cover a country she knows and loves — a country where information is stifled through repression, threats, intimidation, violence, and detentions, often targeting journalists themselves."
Statement from @ilfoglio_it on the detention of correspondent @ceciliasala in Iran.
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RT @louiseelisabet: People will be writing about the crimes committed in Assad's prisons for generations, and still they will never be able…
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Assad’s own ‘Downfall’ moment: “Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at the defence ministry on Saturday that Russian military support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.”
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RT @SarahDadouch: A reminder to foreign journalists descending on Damascus: prisoners are human beings who deserve dignity and should not b…
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@awhawth My eyes are going to fall out of my head reading this, I swear. What was the point of the meeting?!
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Did a double take: The UK government confirmed that Keir Starmer didn't even mention the issue of a detained British national in Egypt when he met Sisi last month? Is he serious? What exactly is more important?
BREAKING: On Day 74 of her hungerstrike, Alaa's mother Laila has just announced that from today she will be sitting outside the Foreign Office every working morning until she hears news of Alaa from @DavidLammy or she collapses and is hospitalised. Yesterday the govt confirmed that @Keir_Starmer failed to raise the issue of Alaa's unlawful imprisonment with #Egypt's President Sisi when they met in November. Laila is 68 and has lost 20kg. Time is running out #FreeAlaa
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RT @rayajalabi: The mood was charged but the tone polite, as a millennial HTS technocrat asked civil servants exactly what their jobs entai…
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While Assad has fallen, there are lessons in this story that are being ignored in western capitals right now. The Netherlands along with Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have all said they are "suspending" processing of Syrian asylum requests.
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RT @AbbieFS: This account of HTS officials asking Syrian state bureaucrats what their jobs are is just superb https…
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