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🔴Hayko Bagdat wrote: Do you know who my uncle is?
🔷Only much later did I learn that the fact that my mother was
#Greek
and my father
#Armenian
caused many problems for their union. Greeks won't let their daughters marry Armenians.
✍🏻
@haykobagdat
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🟢Hayko Bagdat wrote: A
#Greek
priest in a Tarlabasi tavern
📌Priest Kosta in his full costume complete with a beard, headdress and a cross, which was easily visible from afar... at that time, such men existed only in Turkish movies…
✍🏻
@haykobagdat
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🔴Portuguese tourist assaulted by Turkish police, jailed for 20 days for "looking gay"
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📚
#TURKEY
BRIEF: Public Personnel Exam indicted
🔶Allegedly, some of the
#questions
in the
#exam
were also included in the test book published by a publishing house called
#Yediiklim
.
📺Watch:
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🔵Martin Sonneborn: “The international community must decide if it wants to act on values or energy interests”
📌EU stance toward
#Nagorno
-
#Karabakh
contributes to current situation.
🗣️
@MartinSonneborn
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🟣Cengiz Aktar wrote: 1922-2022
🔷Lack of accountability and responsibility for past atrocities enables their repetition in
#Turkey
✒️
@AktarCengiz
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🟢
#TURKEY
BRIEF: Why are Western consulates closing in Turkey?
📌Recently, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, UK, and Switzerland announced that their consulates in Istanbul were closed due to security and terrorism threats.
📺Watch:
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🔴Kurdish musician killed after refusing to sing “Die for you, my Turkey”
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Turkey: HDP deputy Garo Paylan submits motion for acknowledgement of 6-7 September 1955 Pogrom.
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🟢
#Demirtas
demands online meeting with PKK leader
🔷Former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas applied to meet with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan “to give an end to the isolation imposed on him”
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🟣Women Weaving the Future -II
🔷An international
#women
's conference on the struggle to "build a
#political
and societal system based on women’s autonomy in all spheres of life" is to take place for the second time in
#Berlin
.
@Womenweaving2
For more:
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🟤Turkish minister asked about official silence on massacre
🔷Turkish Justice Minister has been asked by deputies why the officials who gave the orders for a deadly bombardment 11 years ago have not ever faced court.
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🟣“My criticism should not be exploited by anyone to weaken HDP. I am a member of HDP and I will remain so. I want everybody to know it well,” Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas said
0
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🟣Alin Ozinian wrote:
#Turkey
's “Kristallnacht” for Non-Muslims: What happened on 6-7 September?
🔶Hulya was 17 years old in 1955. They thought she was
#Greek
and raped her. Her fiancé broke off the engagement because she was “soiled.”
✒️
@AlinOzinian
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🔴Women in
#Turkey
are showing their support for
#Iran
protests and
#MahsaAmini
🗣️“Women, life, freedom!”
"Jin, jiyan, azadi"
#WomenLifeFreedom
#مهسا_امینی
#JinJiyanAzadi
#Kad
ınYaşamÖzgürlük
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🟢Azerbaijan's ambitions extend beyond Nagorno-Karabakh" Ocampo has said, and cited Aliyev saying, "Present-day Armenia is our land."
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🟣Special Report by Seda Taskin:
#HDP
Deputy Group Chair evaluates her party’s closure case, the roadmap to the election, and the internal dynamics of the Labor and Freedom Alliance.
🗣️
@meraldanis
✒️
@sedaa_tskn
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🔴
@ebabahan
first guest, on
#Perspective
, is
@SalihMuslim
, co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party (
#PYD
)
🔷We are preparing for the Turkish attack
🔷Talks with
#Assad
are only at the military level
🔷We are waiting for support from the West
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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🔵Renowned figures including Nobel laureate French writer Annie Ernaux, musician Bryan Adams, legendary footballer Eric Cantona, and actress Juliette Binoche, have released a statement calling for the release of Kurdish musician Nudem Durak
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🟣Irfan Aktan wrote: Melis Kaya: Were Ahmet Kaya alive, he might still be in prison or in exile (1)
📌For as long as he lived, my father carried in his heart the wound of not knowing Kurdish. This led to his proclamations on February 10.
✒️
@irfanaktans
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🟤Turkish journalist posts photo of Kurdish phosphorus victim, says "Israel did this"
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9
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🔴Aris Nalci wrote: In the upcoming elections, where the transition to a parliamentary system is promised, perhaps they will be entered without any
#Armenian
candidates.
✒️
@arisnalci
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10
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🟣Assyrians in
#Turkey
experience oppression, discriminatory policies a century after the
#genocide
🗣️David Vergili (
@dvdvrgl
): Attacks on
#Assyrian
#cemeteries
are the manifestation of the government's hate speech
✒️
@rozerinyuksel_
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13
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🟣Alin Ozinian wrote: Let us review the histories of five Armenian
#feminist
women who wrote prolifically and left their marks on the era through the schools and philanthropic societies they established.
✒️
@AlinOzinian
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12
21
🟠Kurdish football fans in Turkey detained for not rising during national anthem
1
12
21
🟣TTB President Sebnem Korur Fincanci was Irfan Aktan’s (
@irfanaktans
) guest on Special Agenda.
@SkorurFincanci
talked about the behind-the-scenes developments of the hearing at which she was released from pre-trial detention.
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🔵Alin Ozinian wrote: Dink turned 68 and is still by our side
🔸“It was not enough that they took
#Hrant
, they are now trying to take away his memory.”
✒️
@AlinOzinian
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9
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🐌 Being an
#Armenian
in
#Turkey
🟢A new series by Hayko Bagdat for GercekNews; what it is like to live as the “other” in Turkey. Stay tuned!
✒️
@haykobagdat
🔜
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🔵Hayko Bagdat wrote: Why are Kurdish voters disillusioned with the Workers’ Party of Turkey?
📌
#Turkey
’s leftist movement has historically failed where risky topics, such as the Armenian genocide and the Kurdish question, were at issue.
✒️
@haykobagdat
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🟣Interview series with Turkish political
#refugees
(3): Author Meral Simsek: “I feel like a wounded child.”
🔶“I know this: despite our sufferings now and in the past, we will continue to sing our own song.”
🗣️
@21meralsimsek
✒️
@RachelHebun
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🟣Interview series with Turkish political
#refugees
(3): Author Meral Simsek: “I feel like a wounded child.”
🔶“I know this: despite our sufferings now and in the past, we will continue to sing our own song.”
🗣️
@21meralsimsek
✒️
@RachelHebun
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5
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🔴Women in
#Turkey
are showing their support for
#Iran
protests and
#MahsaAmini
🗣️“Women, life, freedom!”
"Jin, jiyan, azadi"
#WomenLifeFreedom
#مهسا_امینی
#JinJiyanAzadi
#Kad
ınYaşamÖzgürlük
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🟣"We can have democracy in Turkey only provided that the country confronts and come to terms with all past and current issues," deputy Paylan has said.
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🔵Imprisoned Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas has sent a hopeful message with his own voice to the people in Turkey via Twitter for the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Demirtas expressed his wish that the holiday would bring about significant change in Turkey
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🟣Mehmet Altan wrote: If we focus on
#Turkish
history instead of the subtitle "History of the Press," we could also use the title "Sins of the
#Media
."
✒️
@MehmetAltanFan
➡️For more:
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🟢Mehmet Altan wrote: Is Erdogan today the same Erdogan from the early 2000s?
📌
#Erdogan
’s political transformation since the early 2000s might render him unrecognizable for a foreigner.
✒️
@MehmetAltanFan
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🟢Bogazici University marks 1000 days of resistance against Erdogan's rector appointment
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Presidential candidate Kilicdaroglu: "I'm being imposed a total blackout"
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🟤The indictment against Kurdish politician Leyla Zana which accused her of receiving awards from “countries in war with Turkey,” has sparked widespread reactions as it triggers debates over criminalizing her international awards
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🟣
#TURKEY
BRIEF: Danish-Kurdish pop sensation Tobias Rahim set social media abuzz with footage of him leading tens of thousands of people in a lively Kurdish dance, known as "halay," during a monumental concert.
📺Watch:
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🔴Dutch journalist
@fgeerdink
spoke to +GercekNews about her deportation from
#IraqiKurdistan
.
📌She explained the possible influence of
#Turkey
's President
#Erdogan
's a role in her deportation.
🗣“ERDOGAN STILL HAS A VERY BIG
#KOBANI
TRAUMA”
Watch:
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🔴Eren Keskin (
@KeskinEren1
) has been one of the recipients of the Olof Palme Prize 2023 alongside imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Mohammadi, and Ukrainian feminist Chumalo.
➡️For more:
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🟣The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of former Kurdish deputy Osman Baydemir, stating that his freedom of expression was violated when he received a disciplinary penalty for referring to "Kurdistan" during a parliamentary session.
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🔴Doctor to inmate: “Turkish women do not use tampons”
📌Imprisoned filmmaker Cigdem Mater’s request for tampons was denied by a male doctor who claimed that "Turkish women do not use tampons."
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🟠“There can be no lasting peace with
#Armenians
until we dismantle the vengeful founding myths of our national identity and reject violent nationalism,”
#Azerbaijani
political activist Bahruz Samadov (
@bahruz_samad
) said.
0
9
13
🟢Alin Ozinian wrote: The "Lost Armenian Pages" of Modern
#Soccer
in
#Turkey
🔶A century later,
#Ottoman
#Armenians
are still invisible in official records
✍️
@AlinOzinian
0
8
15
🔵Report:
#Turkey
digs into reserves to keep lira steady amid tremors
📌According to Turkish bankers, reserves could remain under pressure in the following weeks
0
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🟤Irfan Aktan wrote: Melis Kaya: The Kurdish identity is a state of being in permanent exile (2)
🔷Ahmet Kaya’s songs from the 1980s translate into today's political climate because Turkey’s society is trapped in the same cycles.
✒️
@irfanaktans
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5
15
🔴A teacher from
#Malatya
: ”I don't want to get warm while the people there are freezing”
🗣️“I want my state with me just for one day”
#TurkeyEarthquake
📷Watch:
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🟣HDP Deputy Gergerlioglu: Political prisoners are denied the rights to video calling
🔷People’s Democratic Party (
#HDP
) Kocaeli Deputy Gergerlioglu announced that the newly introduced video call right is not given to political prisoners.
0
5
14
🟣Irfan Aktan wrote: Melis Kaya: Were Ahmet Kaya alive, he might still be in prison or in exile (1)
📌For as long as he lived, my father carried in his heart the wound of not knowing Kurdish. This led to his proclamations on February 10.
✒️
@irfanaktans
0
5
17
🔴TurKEY-bits:
#Turkish
Minister: Our aim is to prevent
#Kurdistan
📌"They are currently trying to establish a
#Kurdish
state in northern
#Syria
. We also try not to establisht it. So many people don't be martyr for nothing."
📺Watch:
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🟣
#Tarkan
strongly criticized Turkish authorities over the outcome of the disaster, saying that “One more time, our people paid the price of negligence with their lives”
0
6
13
🔴Kurdish musician killed after refusing to sing “Die for you, my Turkey”
1
7
14
🟣A regional court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir changed its decision in line with the appellate court's ruling that there were no grounds for punishing the police officer who killed 23-year-old Kemal Kurkut during Newroz in 2017
➡️
0
12
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🟣A regional court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir changed its decision in line with the appellate court's ruling that there were no grounds for punishing the police officer who killed 23-year-old Kurd Kemal Kurkut during Newroz in 2017
➡️
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🟠Sirri Sureyya Onder said radical changes were needed to fight the construction gangs such as heavy taxation on people who own more than one property or a complete ban on inheriting more than one house.
➡️For more:
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🟢Huseyin Arasan, who had fled Turkey after being imprisoned for a total of 16 years, was fatally shot in an attack that marks the sixth assassination in KRI targeting Kurdish activists from Turkey.
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🟤Alin Ozinian wrote: Former Sur Mayor Abdullah Demirbas spoke to Arti Gercek about his meeting with Pope Francis regarding a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue.
✒️
@AlinOzinian
🗣️
@BDPDemirbas
0
4
13
🔴Erdogan announced that Turkish-made missiles will hit Athens if necessary:
🔷We have started to produce our own missiles. Of course, this production scares the Greek. “It hits Athens,” they say. Of course it will!
📺Watch:
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🟣
#Women
and
#LGBTIQA
.+ individuals met in Cihangir, Istanbul for the 8 March Feminist Night Walk with the motto, "We're angry, we're in mourning, and we are in a feminist rebellion against patriarchal capitalist destruction!"
📷
@rozerinyuksel_
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11
16
🔴Ahmet Altan wrote: Russia and Iran are republics. England and Norway are kingdoms. Which one would you like to live in?
✍🏻
@_ahmetaltan
0
7
14
🔴Following the scandal over the sale of tents to NGOs who distributed them to earthquake victims, it has now come to light that the Turkish Red Crescent has been selling blood to public hospitals as part of tenders for the "procurement of goods"
➡️
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12
12
🟣More refugees lost at Mediterranean in 2023 than in 2018-2022 combined
0
4
14
🔴Demirtas: "
#Earthquake
is a catastrophe, not 'God's blessing' for transition to dictatorship"
📌
#Demirtas
has warned against a possible fait accompli upon reports that Turkish president has started searching for ways to postpone the elections.
0
7
13
🟤Mehmet Altan wrote: “
#Turkey
’s Century”
📌Lessons from the past not learned, Turkish politicians are still concerned with power and money while the country tries to recover from the
#earthquake
disaster
✒️
@MehmetAltanFan
1
12
15
🔴"This election had a high turnout and offered a real choice, however, Turkey does not fulfill the basic principles for holding a democratic election," head of the PACE delegation has said.
0
13
14
🟤Alin Ozinian wrote: Former Sur Mayor Abdullah Demirbas spoke to Arti Gercek about his meeting with Pope Francis regarding a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue.
✒️
@AlinOzinian
🗣️
@BDPDemirbas
1
5
13
🟢US expresses disappointment over Turkey's closure of airspace to Armenia
1
8
11
🟣Mehmet Altan wrote: The oceans of politics and Turkey
🔷The UN agreement on a historic deal for ocean use and protection drew no attention from
#Turkey
, which has yet to resolve its primitive politics.
✒️
@MehmetAltanFan
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