Founded by a small group of purged academics,
#NAT
offers critical
#news
, views, tweets, reports & media commentary regarding
#Turkey
. Op-eds are welcomed.
"...Haham Nagen, President of the Ohr Torah Stone Blickle Interfaith Dialogue Institute, has been working to build bridges of dialogue between
#Jews
and
#Muslims
for years. He stressed that Gülen Hocaefendi not only influenced those around him but also transformed his own views
In today's world,
#Turkey
's utmost importance to the West does NOT come PRIMARILY from its geostrategic location. It comes from its strategic cultural, linguistic & historical depth. To exemplify this,
#Greece
will NOT gain much geostrategic importance if they decide to trade
#Ukraine
' s Zelensky: “I’m asking them, are you with us? They say they are with us but they are not ready to take us in the [Nato] military alliance. All of them are afraid.”
In the long term, Turkey would be better off with a Kurdish neighbour along its southeastern border, so instead of fighting the Kurds, it should help them both in Syria and Iraq establish their independent states and have a stronger and deeper cooperation with them.
The best course of action for
#Turkey
- if they want to be a more than regional power- is to side with the West in
#Ukraine
, help the
#Kurds
establish their statehoods or autonomy (
#Iraq
&
#Syria
), and remove
#Assad
from power.👇👇👇
In the long term, Turkey would be better off with a Kurdish neighbour along its southeastern border, so instead of fighting the Kurds, it should help them both in Syria and Iraq establish their independent states and have a stronger and deeper cooperation with them.
The AKP also needs 'fresh blood':
#Erdogan
either does not recognize his nephew & chief bodyguard (Ali Erdogan - gets very emotional) or does not trust him. He accepts the same water offered by his son - Bilal Erdogan.
#Turkey
’s ‘compassionate’ leader
#Erdogan
offers his 1150 room ‘White Palace’ to the
#earthquake
victims. He says this is their home and they can stay as long as they want:::)))
The newly built apartments, state hospitals, and municipal buildings collapsed too during the
#earthquake
due to the corruption and shoddy construction in
#Erdogan
's
#Turkey
.
@McFaul
#Putin
was getting weaker day by day and his army was a shattered mess. He needed something to reverse this situation: A 'coup exercise'. This 'exercise' would enable him to consolidate power & unify the
#Russian
army by incorporating
#Prigozhin
's
#WagnerGroup
into regular
The right moment (AFTER the
#Turkish
ground incursion in NE
#Syria
) is just around the corner. Show the whole world that you are the man of your word: If this is your plan, then CHAPEAU!
Unlike President Trump, I know what it takes to negotiate with Erdoğan. And if I were president, I would make him pay a heavy price for what he has done.
#Erdogan
's massive security convoy. Do NOT forget to add the vehicles that go ahead of him and other security vehicles parked along his way. The minimum wage (monthly) in
#Turkey
is 307 USD and almost half of the employees work for this amount.
For the first time in the history of
#Turkish
politics, the 'F' word is used by a politician -
#Bahceli
- at a rally: "Sam, Tony, Jony, Merkel & Frank - if they all try to f..k
#Erdogan
, they will not succeed". He probably wanted to use the verb: 'silkelemek' (shake him up).
The impact of
#muharremince
&
#SinanOgan
on the outcome of the elections in
#Turkey
(the first round in particular) is unknowingly exaggerated to a great extent by both sides: Anti-
#Erdogan
& pro-
#Erdo
ğan camps. They would NOT have reached 100,000 signatures without the paid
Uşak, a small
#Anatolian
town (around 370.000 habitants), where
#Erdogan
's
#AKP
got the most votes (AKP: %43.5 - CHP: %28.2) in the last general election welcomes Kemal Kılıçdaro��lu.
Due to the strategic weight of the
#Kurdish
votes,
#Turkey
's
#Erdogan
has no choice but to 'demonize' the
#Kurds
and
#HDP
by escalating the situation with them at home and in the region.👇👇👇
The song (Edip Akbayram's song):
- Guys, believe me, guys.
- We’ll see beautiful days sunny days
- We’ll drive the engines to the Blues
- We’ll see beautiful days sunny days
👇
#Erdogan
#Turkey
#earthquake
Beşiktas fans took a different approach to protesting
#Erdogan
's government by singing an emotional song & throwing toys on the pitch for the little victims of the
#earthquakes
in
#Turkey
. They also called for the resignation of the government before the start of the game.
The
#SDF
commander Mazloum Abdi claims that TWO helicopters (not one) crashed: The only way for two helicopters to crash at the same time is by coming into contact with each other or being shot down. Something fishy is going on.
#Syria
#iraq
#kurds
#Kurdish
#Turkey
's
#Erdogan
came to power after a major earthquake in 1999 that was followed by an economic crisis. Turkish economy is already in tatters that will be exacerbated by the recent
#earthquakes
. He will go the same way but more chaos, blood & tragedy lie ahead...
The call for the resignation of
#Erdogan
's government continues: The same chant repeated by the fans today during the basketball game between Fenerbahçe & Bologna.
#hukumetistifa
#earthquakes
They were the children of the Alevi parents who were forced to flee an undemocratic country. Today, state-controlled media and fascists boast about them day and night! Such a hypocracy!
Erdogan: 'I can't hear you'. Meet the "Hitler' of this century. He makes AKP congress recite oath with Muslim Brotherhood gesture.
Such a munafiq (hypocrite)...
#Russia
's Putler has made a terrible strategic mistake by trying to invade
#Ukraine
. Hopefully,
#Ukraine
's heroic resistance will rekindle the quest for freedom in
#Chechnya
and other Republics in the
#Caucasus
. In this sense,
#Ukraine
' s resistance is of great importance...
Well done. Keep doing it. Your puppets deserve it!:
#Turkey
's
#Erdogan
reprimands his minister - Mehmet Muş- for his 'unaesthetic' signature during the Summit of the Organization of Turkic states in
#Ankara
today.
"What kind of signature is that? Change it"
The
#PKK
must understand that the era of the armed rebellion ended a long time ago. The PKK has already fulfilled its duty. There is no benefit to the
#Kurds
anymore. On the contrary, they are destroying the achievements that Kurds have gained (particularly in
#Syria
).👇👇👇
1- We are being constantly asked about
#Kurds
in
#Turkey
. It is better for Kurds to run a bigger (strategic & DEMOCRATIC also) county than a small landlocked country.
#Kurds
in Turkey is going to be the most strategic component of the future governments in
#Ankara
.
#Turkey
- bosting about its
#drones
and displaying itself as a 'super power' - did not have a single firefighting aircraft to extinguish the forest fires.
#Turkey
is not even a reginal power!
1-The possibility of a direct confrontation between
#Turkey
&
#Greece
is VERY high: First & foremost, as we said previously a couple of times
#Erdogan
needs a war(s) very badly to stay in power legally (win) or illegally (postponement & fraud).
We are now much closer to WW3 than we ever have been if the West reacts militarily to these HIGHLY possible developments: A war between
#China
&
#Taiwan
-
#Turkey
&
#Greece
. It seems the recent escalation between those countries is coordinated by
#China
,
#Russia
&
#Turkey
axis.
Exclusively written for NAT (News About Turkey) by: Dr. Ceren Şengül,
@csengul86
THE MYTH OF ‘NEW TURKEY’: KEMALISM AND ERDOĞANISM AS TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
Muharrem İnce who plans to become the chairman of
#CHP
will support the candidacy of
#kemalkilicdaroglu
. He will dissolve his current party if he is welcomed to rejoin his former party. This whole thing was triggered by the return of
#iyiparti
to the ‘Table of Six’.
Worried about
#Russian
retaliation,
#Turkey
's deputy FM to Ria Novosti (Russian newspaper):
#Ukraine
bought the drones from a private company . They were not given to them by us as grants"...
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has enough votes to win but he needs to have a functioning system/mechanism that counts the ballots and monitors the election process properly. Most importantly, he needs to show strong leadership and determination to challenge the state authorities including
An imam in
#Kocaeli
(city next to
#Istanbul
),
#Turkey
refused to perform a religious ritual - washing the body- for a
#Kurdish
political poisoner who died in jail.
Unlike President Trump, I know what it takes to negotiate with Erdoğan. And if I were president, I would make him pay a heavy price for what he has done.