Jennifer Hattam
@TheTurkishLife
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Journalist covering environmental, social and urban issues plus art, culture, food and travel. Available for assignments. jenhattam (at) gmail (dot) com
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“If I’m next, hug my mom and burn this city down.” Hell of a sign at last night’s protest in Istanbul demanding end to femicide and violence against women.
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The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry represents itself on Twitter with a picture of... concrete and an artificial lake.
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Where else but... 🇹🇷
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Tabii Arzu Hanım, evde sıkıldık diyenler çok hatalı... 🙄
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"Sorry I was late to work today boss, the metro cat wouldn't let me swipe my İstanbulKart"
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The Great Wall of toilet paper blocking off the alcohol section at a supermarket on Election Day in Turkey.
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And people still ask me if I feel safe in Turkey...
10 killed and 16 wounded in Dayton, Ohio, the second mass shooting within 24 hours in the U.S.
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Two women brutally murdered by their current or ex-husbands in
#Turkey
this week. Violence against women cuts across all lines in all societies. RIP Emine Hanım and Tuba Hanım, but may none of us rest until
#kad
ıncinayetlerisonbulsun and justice is done.
#EmineBulut
#tubaerkol
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Kar fırtınasına rağmen sokakta gezen simitçi var. / Günaydın from Istanbul’s most dedicated simitçi ❄️
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Spanish cartoonists are sharing this image with the message: "To arms, companions!" via
@sicevis
#CharlieHebdo
http://t.co/hQqPJMQeV5
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Every time there's news like this (which is all the damn time), I think of the many, many times I've been rejected by men, had my heart badly broken, and never once even considered doing them harm. Because society doesn't tell women that we're entitled to have whatever we want.
#P
ınarGültekin was killed by her ex boyfriend, who admitted to the crime.
The man, Cemal Metin Avcı, claimed Gültekin did not want to get back together with him.
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İstenilmemiş gramer ‘önerileri’ verenleri blok ediyorum. I would never be so rude as to correct your English tamam mı.
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First rule of small Turkish towns: the local hangout is under the çınar ağacı.
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Amid so much tragedy in Turkey’s raging wildfires, so many heroic efforts, by firefighters and civilians alike ❤️
Istanbul Fire Department firefighters (Hisarönü, Muğla)
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World's first attempt to send an Adana kebab into space reaches around 35km up in the stratosphere on a helium ballon before falling into the sea.
"Maybe we can reach even greater heights in the future," says jubilant kebapçı Yaşar Aydın.
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Cancel all other year-end lists, we've found the winner ❤️
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What you find in Antakya when you want to build a two-story underground parking garage for your hotel.
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Istanbul cats are always above the law.
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Retro ads from Turkey: “Bayram is coming, did you get your liquor?” 🍹
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RIP to Mexican search and rescue dog Proteo, who died 'in the line of duty' according to official statement, working in Turkey's earthquake zone.
Meksika arama kurtarma köpeği Proteo, Türkiye’de deprem bölgesinde çalışırken enkaz altında kalarak can vermiş 🙏🏻
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Saygısız piknik yapan kişilerin yüzünden Maçka Parkı bu sabah komple berbat, iğrenç gözüktü. Parklar, açık alanlar hepimizin olmalı ama bu yerler çöplüğümüz değil 🤬
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First stop in Antakya: the humusçu.
“Welcome back to Antakya, when did you arrive?”
“My flight landed about an hour ago.”
(Looks at duffel bag sitting on opposite chair.)
“So you came here before going to your hotel?”
Tabii ki, gotta have your priorities straight in life.
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@kaya52018375
@gonulluist
Ayıp değil. Önemli bir duyuru bu. Tüm bağışları sıralamak ve işlemek zaman ve kaynak gerektirir. Kullanılamayacak bağışlar yapmak, mağdurlara yardımcı olabilecek kaynakları ortadan kaldırmak demekki.
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Her şeye rağmen dünyanın en güzel şehrinden günaydınlar ❤️
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Big crowd of
#Ekrem
İmamoğlu supporters in front of
#Istanbul
municipality building as he receives his certificate as mayor after more than two weeks of recounts. (A bid to re-run the whole election is still pending).
#Se
çim2019 photos via
@bulenttezcanchp
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Artists in Istanbul have turned a building set for demolition into a gallery of street art & installations called
#Mikrotopya
, open from 2-6pm to anyone willing to brave the broken glass, garbage & exposed stairwells inside. At Atılay Sk 14 in Feneryolu, “until it is torn down”.
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Had to climb through the cab of this stuck truck to get to the metro, how’s your morning going? 😂
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Alternate title: Woman looking suitably unimpressed at unwanted suitor's drama 🙄
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Who's going to be the one to tell them that Muslims most probably cooked their meals, cleaned their hotel rooms, drove their airport shuttle bus, and brought them drinks by the pool? 🤦♀️ It's amazing they survived so many "threats" to their safety.
Two British women were thrown off a Thomas Cook flight from Turkey to Gatwick after they allegedly said three Muslim men in white prayer shawls were “terrorists” and a “threat” to the safety of the plane, other passengers have claimed.
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Good morning to everyone except people who voted for Trump.
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These tragic stories won’t end until men’s entitlement does. 27-year-old
#P
ınarGültekin found dead after 5 day search, ex-boyfriend has reportedly confessed to killing her. At least 146 women killed by men in
#Turkey
in first half of year says
@KadinCinayeti
. #ölmekistemiyoruz
Bir kadın daha eksildi...
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#P
ınarGültekin, eski erkek arkadaşının barışma isteğini reddettiği için öldürüldü
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This is a great photo but also a really sad symbol of how diminished the waters around Istanbul have become due to pollution and overfishing.
One of my favorite Ara Güler photos - fisherman and tuna fish (orkinos) (Istanbul, 1950s)
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The bits and pieces that remain of
#Istanbul
's Byzantine past, peeking out from behind more modern parts of the city, have fascinated me for years. I finally got to dig into their history in my first article for
@NatGeo
. With fine photos by
@rena_effendi
.
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This image from Adana just tears my heart open all over again. An ordinary house, ripped apart, the safety of home wrenched from under its inhabitants' very feet. Acı o kadar büyük... (Photo by Oguz Yeter, Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Istanbul's first Art Nouveau building, the grand Botter Apartment built 1901 by Raimondo D'Aronco, reopened last night after
@IbbMiras
restoration as
@CasaBotter
art & design center. It was originally the atelier and home of Jean Botter, a Dutch tailor to the Ottoman palace.
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Very cool news: chef
#MusaDa
ğdeviren of #ÇiyaSofrası in
#Istanbul
, who's done so much to collect and preserve traditional & regional Turkish recipes, will be featured on next season of
@netflix
culinary documentary series
#ChefsTable
with
@ThisIsDavidGelb
.
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On this day in 2008... the plane ride that changed my life, for good, bad, and everything in between. Happy Istanbul anniversary to me, my 13th year was true to type as an unlucky one, here’s hoping year 14 makes up for it and more 🧿
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I think we already have a winner in the worst election-related headline competition 🤦♀️
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I just asked the waitress for "Bi daha" (referring to the coffee I just had), and she looked at me slightly quizzically and said "Bira?" I think she knows me better than I know myself.
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Turks love to tell me how fat Americans are - per these stats, obesity rates in Turkey are higher than in 76% of US states.
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Imagine the scenes at Cihangir Carrefour on Saturday as the yabancılar try to argue that tofu, smoked salmon, peanut butter, and sriracha sauce are 'temel gıda'.
#marketgenelgesi
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As the elegies continue to the 12,000 years of history and culture drowned or displaced in
#Hasankeyf
, Turkey's state-run news agency cheerily proclaims:
"Hasankeyf gets ready to welcome guests with its new face"
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Sound of “Tencere tava” (pots and pans) erupts in Istanbul neighborhoods at 9pm in support of student demonstrations over threats to academic freedom at
#bogaziciuniversitesi
and police repression against protesters.
#BogaziciAblukada
#BogaziciDireniyor
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Devastated by the loss of life in today's earthquakes and the many more left without shelter in miserable weather conditions. Sharing a work-in-progress list of ways you can help here:
and in the following thread.
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How politicized is Turkey? Well, the country's largest art fair has sent out an email decrying what it calls "totally inaccurate reporting" in the foreign press and asking all its "art loving friends" to refrain from spreading "black propaganda" about military operation in Syria.
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Male violence kills two more in
#Turkey
yesterday -
#DilanKarata
ş (age 7) of Hatay, hung from a tree by her father, and
#MerveYe
şiltaş (31) of Ordu, burned to death by her boyfriend - as govt threatens to leave intl treaty on
#VAW
.
#istanbuls
özleşmesiyaşatır
Via
@KadinCinayeti
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Where were those guys who stand on the curb and say “Gel gel gel” while you’re trying to park when they were really needed? 🤷🏼♀️
An enormous container ship became stuck while traversing the Suez Canal. By Wednesday, more than 100 ships were stuck at each end of the canal, which connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and carries roughly 10% of worldwide shipping traffic.
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The best part is the bystander calling out to the cows, "İbrahim's not here, come back later" 😂
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So basically everything I don’t like is back:
- Malls
- Construction
- Traffic
- Pestering taxi drivers
And everything I do is still closed:
- Parks/forests
- Museums/historic sites
- Restaurants/bars/cafes
Thank goodness for the pazar, which has endured it all ❤️
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Istanbul blanketed in fog last night
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#HumanRights
groups decry pending expulsion from parliament of opposition deputy
@gergerliogluof
. He faces 2.5 yrs in prison for "terror propaganda" over sharing a news article, a sentence he has appealed at Turkey's Constitutional Court. More on his case:
MP
@gergerliogluof
is the voice of 1000s in Turkey dismissed from jobs, prosecuted & jailed over the past 5 years by the Erdoğan govt; some have been tortured, even disappeared & impunity reigns. Expelling Gergerlioğlu from parliament would be a reprisal for his human rights work
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As Turkey's govt signals it may withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, Istanbul's opposition-run
@BesiktasBel
puts up billboards with QR codes allowing people to read the text of the
@coe
treaty. #İstanbulSözleşmesiYaşatır
Beşiktaş Belediyesi ilçenin dört bir yanına billboardlar, afişler ve binaların üzerine #İstanbulSözleşmesi’ni yerleştirdi. Yolda yürürken veya araçla geçerken bunların üzerindeki QR kodu telefonunuzda tarayıp sözleşmeyi okuyabilirsiniz.
@RizaAkpolat
#İstanbulSözleşmesiYaşatır
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Hello,
#Hatay
! A fine first day of eating in
#Antakya
with
@KatrinkaSasha
. (Some snacks not pictured.)
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The Chora Church/Kariye Museum in Fatih was always one of the sights I insisted every visitor to
#Istanbul
must see. Now these stunning mosaics and frescoes risk being covered up with new presidential decree to convert into a mosque, following path of
#HagiaSophia
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Hotel owner in #İzmir offers free rooms to people whose homes were damaged in the
#earthquake
.
#deprem
#izmir
de evleri hasar gören vatandaşlarımızı otelimizde ücretsiz konaklayabilir. ÇİĞLİ ve GÜZELBAHCEDEKİ şubelerimizde. 0535 625 55 74 BU NUMARADAN BANA ULAŞIN. ALLAH YARDIMCIMIZ OLSUN. KONUMA GOOGLE ULAŞABİLİRSİNİZ
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Istanbul without (hardly any) Istanbulites 'is the new cool', it seems. Wonder if they shot this during the weekend lockdowns.
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That's how ODTÜ translates it on their own English-language website. And I block anyone I don't know who uses patronizing, sexist terms like 'darling' towards me so goodbye 👋
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Why stop at Istanbul? Canals for all.
Yok öyle sadece İstanbul'a yatırım. Hepimiz kanal istiyoruz
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Another fine addition to my
#BestTurkishStreetNames
collection: “Flood of Love Avenue” in Beykoz, Istanbul.
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Excited to be part of the
@washingtonpost
’s new
#travel
initiative,
#ByTheWay
, which just launched today. Check out my local’s guide to
#Istanbul
, with wonderful photos by
@emanuelesatolli
.
#BTW
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Cool idea from #İzmir,
#Turkey
: Vending machines at metro stations will give out one hygiene packet (4 masks + hand sanitizer) a week when you scan your transit card.
#coronavirusturkey
Koronayla mücadelede maskenin önemi tartışılmaz. Metro istasyonlarına koyacağımız maskematikler, İzmirlilerin maskeye ücretsiz, kolayca ulaşmasını sağlayacak. İlk otomat Konak istasyonunda. İzmirim Kart’ı gösteren haftada bir, maske paketini ücretsiz alabilir.
#BizVar
ız
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Just another guy on the internet, trying his luck.
“Hello Leman
Are you a girl?”
“I’m a magazine.”
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#Taksim
metro escalator cat moves for no one, is bothered by nothing. It's his (her?) world, we're all just passing through. RT
@aliarikan
: Turkish cats don’t have time for your bullshit.
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One hell of a description of Istanbul, by the recently deceased historian and travel writer Jan Morris.
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Tranquil Istanbul yesterday evening in last hours before today’s post-coronavirus reopening. As of this morning, fishermen back on Galata Bridge, Karaköy shoreline path unblocked, cafes and restaurants getting ready to greet sit-down customers again. Good luck to us all 🧿
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I do love a good pazar sign ❤️
As painful as life 🌶
None more beautiful than me 🍇
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Life always looks better from the deck of a ferry at sunset ❤️
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Starting the day with an early-morning sightseeing run around Istanbul’s 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th hills ❤️
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