Piotr Zalewski
@p_zalewski
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Turkey correspondent for @TheEconomist. Occasional bylines elsewhere. Opinions my own. RT = interesting. Email: [email protected]
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined November 2010
New indictment seeks over 7 years in prison and political ban for Istanbul mayor and putative Erdogan challenger Ekrem İmamoğlu
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Turkish FM says Trump’s Gaza plan unacceptable: “The issue of deportation is a situation that neither the region nor we can accept. Even thinking about it is absurd. It’s wrong to even open this to discussion.”
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Trump suggests the US should take up ethnic cleansing in Gaza: “I hope we can do something where they wouldn’t want to go back.”
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RT @TheEconomist: “No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey.” @p_zalewski tells “The Intelligence” how Recep Tayyip Erd…
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RT @TheEconomist: “If democracy means that the people decide who will rule them and who represents them in the parliament, then yes, Syria…
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RT @Charles_Lister: According to #Turkey's FM, #Syria's [#HTS-led] interim gov't has officially requested the Syrian National Army dissolve…
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RT @DPsaledakis: "This is lunacy," @JeremyKonyndyk, a former USAID official who is now president of Refugees International, said. "This wil…
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No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria, and as much to lose from its renewed implosion. My latest, with a big hand from @BrowneGareth and @glcarlstrom
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Bootleg alcohol - consumption of which has surged because of sky-high taxes on booze - has killed 37 people in the last 4 days in Istanbul.
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RT @hxhassan: Fascinating details about Assad’s last days in this interview with Assad’s media “tsar”, his media chief and close aide. Thr…
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RT @KimGhattas: Bashar al Assad shook hands and had a pretty blonde wife. He also slaughtered half a million Syrians. The debate about hand…
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RT @IamArwaDamon: I feel like I’m in a daze , a kaleidoscope of past and present, I stare at the people celebrating, drive through neighbor…
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RT @louiseelisabet: Children put on trial for “insulting” the president, spies recording suspect’s love affairs, prisoners tortured into de…
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RT @KShoshiashvili: BREAKING: Georgia’s oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has been sanctioned under OFAC’s SDN List pursuant to Executive Order…
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RT @panyiszabolcs: I'm surprised so few outside of Hungary have heard about how Orbán's inner circle emulates Russian oligarchs. Kudos to p…
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In which a Turkish professor learns that his PhD student, Esad Hassan, who hadn’t been attending lectures for 2 weeks, has just been appointed Syria’s new foreign minister.
Doktora öğrencim Esad Hasan, az önce öğrendim ki Suriye’nin yeni Dışişleri Bakanı olmuş. Ben de derslere iki haftadır niye gelmiyor diye Endonezyalı, Filistinli sınıf arkadaşlarına soruyordum.😌
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RT @humeyra_pamuk: State Department's top Mideast diplomat Barbara Leaf who was in Damascus described today's meeting with HTS leader Ahmed…
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