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Journalist, writing on Turkey and occasionally on the region. E-mail: ragip.soylu @protonmail .com Türkçe için: @ragipsoyluTR

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NEW: Did Erdogan cancel his White House visit because of the war on Gaza? • His office won’t say it but there is enough evidence to believe that. Also, a possible division at the government Read my take below and subscribe if you like for free ⬇️ 🔗
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Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg, Russia. Wow
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⚡️⚡️The President of Switzerland announced that the country will join the EU sanctions against Russia. Significant, considering Switzerland’s traditionally neutral stance
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Insane. Don’t have any other words. The Kabul Airport.
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Irpin, near Kyiv. No words
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BREAKING — Turkey says what happens in Ukraine constitutes a war under Montreux Convention, says will act accordingly: Foreign Minister Meaning, Turkey can close the straits for Russian warships except the ones associated with the Black Sea fleet
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Flock of sheep invades Turkey’s city of Samsun last night during the coronavirus lockdown 🐑
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BREAKING — Egyptian Intelligence Minister called Netanyahu ten days before Hamas attack and warned him of "something unusual, a terrible operation" that was about to take place from Gaza. Egyptians were "surprised by the indifference shown by Netanyahu". — Yedioth Ahranoth
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⚡️ Zelensky announced the formation of a new unit - the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. It will be made up of foreigners who want to take part in repelling Russian aggression.
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Massive rally today in Tbilisi, Georgia to support Ukraine and oppose the Russian invasion
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Turkish foreign policy right now
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Grandpa is reprimanding the Russian soldiers in Melitopol like they are children. “I’m also Russian. Don’t you have any problems in the state?”
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Pentagon official: Russian forces do not have enough men and equipment to encircle Kyiv, let alone take it — Sky News
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Simply unbelievable
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Erdogan says Turkey doesn’t recognise the annexation of Crimea. “Crime is a component of Ukraine. We maintain our support to Ukraine’s territorial integrity.” Erdogan calls for the release of Crimean Tatar leaders who were imprisoned by Russia
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He paid €25 to Turkish state treasury for this picture
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A Greek tourist unfolded a flag inside the Sancta Sophia Cathedral
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Khashoggi and a cat. May God rest his soul in peace...
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Escape from Kyiv, Ukraine
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War or peace
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⚡️⚡️ Russian soldiers who lay down their weapons will be granted amnesty and money — Ukrainian Defense Minister
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Chechen dictator Kadyrov spoke to the Chechen security forces in Prada Monolith boots. He is expected to deploy forces to Ukrainian cities. Devil indeed wears Prada
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Erdogan: Where is your wife? Elon Musk: Oh she, she is in San Francisco. We are separated now. That’s why I take care of my son
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Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months in an island, and they didn’t kill each other. Instead, they set up a commune with food garden, gym, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire. They even perfectly fixed a broken leg
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This is wrong. Turkish national anthem begins with: “Do not fear”
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The first word of each national anthem in Europe
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Steal Taliban’s look
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BREAKING — Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian civilian and military aircraft that transports soldiers to Syria after notifying Moscow: Turkish Foreign Minister via TRT
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⚡️⚡️Russia passes Iran and becomes world’s most sanctioned nation
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⚡️⚡️Russian advance on Kyiv has been slowed down by the Ukrainian forces, says UK Defense Ministry
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Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon: "I call on the opposition not to form an emergency government with Netanyahu, but to demand his resignation. He was warned several times, he did not let the Chief of Staff speak to the Cabinet. There is no trust in him, how can…
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BREAKING — Putin has challenged President Biden to a live debate -ABC
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A Turkish female voter turns up with her lamb at the polling station in Turkey
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Israeli soldiers severely beat Palestinian Journalist Mustafa Haruf, who works for Turkish public agency Anadolu, and threaten him with live fire and in East Jerusalem. He is hospitalized with serious head injuries. All broadcasted live by CNNTurk
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Only in Turkey: A guy pays to distribute local sweets in memory of Spinoza’s 347th death anniversary in Istanbul
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BREAKING — Kazakhstan will follow the sanctions regime against Russia, President Tokayev says The country does not have any concerns regarding territorial claims from the Russian Federation, he added.
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Wow, scandalous: US State Department banned Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al Maliki from publicly speaking as a prerequisite for obtaining a US visa. Journalists minutes ago asked questions to Maliki during a presser in Washington but he couldn’t comment. The Saudi…
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One building standing in Kahramanmaras: The Chamber of Civil Engineers
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Finland is ready to apply for NATO membership if the question of national security comes up acutely, its PM says — Interfax
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No comment needed
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Seems like Erdogan has won this turn of waiting game
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This is how Gaza people are spending night under heavy Israeli bombardment
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Two ways of ending a campaign for #Turkey ’s elections: • Kilicdaroglu, on the left, visited Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara left flowers • Erdogan, on the right, attended the evening prayers at Hagia Sophia
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BREAKING — NATO to provide air defense systems to Ukraine and more weapons — Stoltenberg
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Russian state broadcaster RT just published Tucker Carlson’s rant to defend Putin with Russian subtitles
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BREAKING — Director-General of the Lebanese Public Security: What happened [in Beirut] is not a fireworks explosion, but a high-explosive material that was confiscated for years — Al Jazeera
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BREAKING — Russia says it is having some issues funding Russian embassies abroad — IFX
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Piers Morgan is totally destroyed here as his bias on Gaza is completely exposed. Morgan argues that what happens in Ukraine is genocide but Gaza is not. Even though, in every metric of the comparison more civilians died in Gaza than Ukraine
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BREAKING — US is sharing real time intelligence with Ukraine: White House
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#Kiev : Literally a war zone.
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I’m sorry to say it but European countries weren’t waiting Syrian refugees with open arms as they do now with Ukrainians. Guess skin colour and religion do matter for some
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Turkey offered to take Ukrainian soldiers in Azovstal out of Mariupol with a ship that can carry 2,000 people, promising that they will be kept in Turkey until the end of the war. Russia refused, according to Ukrainian negotiator Mustafa Dzhemilev 1/
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Oh my God. Desperate Afghans are hanging on the plane tires and falling from the sky near the Kabul airport
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When Erdogan, Aliyev, Putin and Lukashenko go to a bar
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NEW: EU has agreed to completely end energy dependency on Russia, starting with coal and followed by oil and gas: German Foreign Minister
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SIGNIFICANT #Khashoggi updates: • Turkish official tells CNN that Khashoggi was cut into pieces • Turks to AJ, Saudi autopsy doctor Salah Al Tabiqi did the cutting • Cutting lasted for 7 minutes, doctor told colleagues to listen music during the op • Recordings exist
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A recently displaced Syrian father Abdullah in Idlib taught a game to his 4-year-old daughter Selva: You should laugh when you hear a warplane. Now entire family laughs to maintain the pretense, to keep her sipirits high amid a war Via @alganmehmett
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Russia is deploying heavy military equipments towards border with Finland after Finland and Sweden considering joining NATO: Bloomberg
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GRAPHIC: The current state of a hospital in Gaza Strip, following the airstrike that killed 70 civilians today when they were heading south as ordered by IDF.
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BREAKING — EU bans all transactions with the Russian Central Bank — Reuters
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Lol, “Putin should be happy. Not everyone gets such an expensive present on their birthday,” a senior Ukrainian military official tells NYT on the Crimea Bridge explosion
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German cyber security chief to be sacked after alleged Russia ties — AFP
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BREAKING — The Afghan president Ghani is relinquishing power and an interim government led by Taliban is formed — Al Arabiya
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NEW — Norway, a NATO ally, suspends all arms exports to Turkey over the Syria incursion. Finland did the same yesterday
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The slogan 'Turkey is secular and will remain secular' is chanted outside the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. People have been celebrating in Ankara for hours now. Never ending honking, dancing and shouting
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Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev says Ukraine should never ever agree on occupation, rely on its resources and fight back to protect what it has He says Azerbaijan has good relations with Russia but Baku has always supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity, “we aren’t hiding”
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NEW: Ukranian special forces today landed in Crimea as part of an operation at Cape Tarkhankut, confirms the representative of the GUR Yusov According to him, all tasks within the framework of the special operation were completed . By the way, this is the same cape where the…
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A Turkish citizen is quite surprised by the fact that there is a Starbucks right next to Prophet’s Mosque in Medina while everyone is boycotting the coffee chain
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Turkish female student that lives in #Kharkiv “If Turkey isn’t going to evacuate us, I will fight along with the Ukrainians. As Turkish women do. Won’t wait to die in a house. Will die by fighting maybe not for my country but for the country I live”
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BREAKING — Erdogan says Hamas isn’t a terror group but patriotic organisation that defends its territories and people. • “They are the warriors (mujahids)” he says. “We aren’t indebted to Israel. But the West is.” • “I won’t visit Israel”
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Big boss enters the room
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BREAKING: Putin declares partial mobilization, the decree has been signed. “Only citizens who are currently in the reserve and, above all, those who served in the Armed Forces, have certain military specialties and relevant experience, will be subject to conscription.“
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Turkish media publish the photos showing the arrest of Istanbul bomber
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The three year old kid that died in the Istanbul attack with her father 💔
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Israeli protestors chant “Bibi Netanyahu is a murderer” outside the Israeli defense ministry in Tel Aviv Netanyahu is yet to meet the families of the hostages
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NEW: Russia’s first default in a century looks all but inevitable now: Bloomberg
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Ukraine’s First Lady launches Turkish produced Hetman Ivan corvette for the Ukrainian navy, with the presence of senior Turkish officials including the defense minister Akar and chairman of Turkish defense industries Demir
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BREAKING — A Ukrainian official says a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol during a planned local cease-fire has failed due to Russian shelling. A similar cease-fire collapsed on Saturday — AP
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NEW: Kremlin spokesman admits that Russia had “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine
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Turkish Foreign Minister says even the Russian Black Sea fleet who can cross the straits under the convention shouldn’t join the war. Turkey still didn’t formally closed the straits for Russian warships. But it looks imminent
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BREAKING — Erdogan concedes defeat. “We will obey the will of the people as we have done in the past. The people said their last words. We will work with the mayors who won the elections. We will self-critique ourselves. We had setbacks.”
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Erdogan and Elon Musk shake hands in Doha during the World Cup Final Match
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Erdogan tonight recited the Holy Quran’s surah Al Baqarah at The Hagia Sophia “Alif- Lâm- Mîm. This is the Book! There is no doubt about it, a guide for those mindful of Allah…”
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Love is in the air
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Peak Erdogan, telling German media in Berlin right next to Scholz that Turkey hasn’t partaken in holocaust and it isn’t indebted to Israel, so he could freely speak about the Gaza atrocities
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Terrible. The most clear footage from Beirut port explosion(s) so far
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Poland has begun preparations to counter a possible attack by Russia, Ukrainian ambassador says per Ukrainian media
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BREAKING — UN general assembly suspends Russia from Human Rights Council with 93 yes votes, 24 no votes and 58 abstentions
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When you invite a serial murderer to a summit to discuss how to stop murders
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NEW: UK plans to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including protected patrol vehicles, such as the Mastiff, or vehicles like the Jackal, which can be used for a recon. British troops would be sent to a country neigbouring Ukraine to carry out training — The Times
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Turkey blocks OnlyFans following a campaign by conservatives against the platform over pornography
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BREAKING — EU to sanction Russian Defense Minister — WSJ
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Recep Uyar, the Muezzin of the Bursa Green Mosque, has lost his life. He has become famous for introducing five melodies of Islamic call for prayers to the masses via this viral video. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
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⚡️⚡️Russia warns Bosnia and says it will also face the same fate as Ukraine if it decides to be part of NATO
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BREAKING — Zelensky refused to meets Russians in Minsk for negotiations. “Warsaw, Istanbul, Baku - we have offered these cities to Russia for negotiations. And any other city from where missiles do not fly to Ukraine. But not Minsk.”
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You can understand how Turkish people mobilised to send aid to earthquake hit provinces in this short video. They created a huge line to carry aid to the long truck that cannot enter the street for loading in Istanbul’s Şişli
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Erdogan moments ago: “Why is the US aircraft carrier is coming to Israel? For what? What will they do? Will they hit Gaza with their warplanes and commit a massacre?”
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BREAKING — US will provide Ukraine with armed drones: Biden
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MUST READ — Former top Israeli domestic intelligence Shin Beth chief Ami Ayalon to Le Figaro on what went wrong in Israel: “A large part of the responsibility lies of course with the government. The commanders of all security organizations told [Netanyahu] that the policy…
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Extremely happy faces at Putin’s economy coordination meeting today with top officials
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