Ragıp Soylu
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Turkey Bureau Chief @middleeasteye E-mail: [email protected] Türkçe için: @ragipsoyluTR
Joined May 2010
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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Lmao they think that this is a legendary quote.
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So touching: . “I have been in prison for 10 years. What happened?”. “The regime fell”. And his laugh! .
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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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A whirling dervish in Istanbul at the pro-Imamoglu demonstrations last night. Photo: Umit Bektas
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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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Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech prophet, restricts Turkish accounts on X that call for protests in Turkey against Imamoglu’s detention, following requests from the government.
Öğrencilerin eylemlerini paylaşan çok sayıda öğrenci hesabına erişim engeli getirildi
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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.
A Greek tourist unfolded a flag inside the Sancta Sophia Cathedral
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A Syrian celebrating the fall of Assad in Turkey’s Adana:. “It is time to return to our country. We will miss Turkey. The bond of friendship remains between us.” . “Thank you all very much. If we made a mistake, I apologize on behalf of all Syrians “.
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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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Erdogan shares the below video to commemorate 7 October. Quite a production. It is a future where Gaza Genocide is accepted world wide and memorised through museums and movies. And children ask to their grandparents, “what were you doing during the genocide grandpa?”
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This is wrong. Turkish national anthem begins with: “Do not fear”.
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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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LOL: . “I just learned that my PhD student, Assad Hassan, has become the new Foreign Minister of Syria. I was asking his Indonesian and Palestinian classmates why he hasn't been coming to class for the last two weeks.”.
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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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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One building standing in Kahramanmaras: The Chamber of Civil Engineers
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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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Crazy:. One of the political prisoners of notorious Sednaya prison says his execution was half a day away
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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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“It is good to see you in better health” . Famous last words .
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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 — Germany has suspended arms export licenses to Israel — Al Jazeera.
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Here is the state of affairs on day one of the HTS-led government in Damascus:. • Central Bank operating; commercial banks reopen Thursday. •Mohammed al-Bashir appointed to form a temporary government. •Jolani met Bashir and Assad’s PM to arrange power transfer.
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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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NEW: Erdogan says only Turkey could save the European Union from the troubles it has fallen into due to Ukraine war. Ankara could remedy European defense, revive the aging population in the continent . “This could only happen with Ankara’s EU membership”.
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This is from 2011. Everyone who supported Assad’s rule has known what was going on. You dare not say you didn’t know. You knew
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Pretty damning for the Biden administration: . Israel bombed the homes of US Embassy’s own Palestinian employees in Gaza, and the US didn’t even blink and let the arms flow uninterrupted
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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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Europe’s very first modern ethnic cleansing against Turks and Muslims is celebrated as usual on this platform.
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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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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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An eyewitness rescued from Sednaya prison near Damascus recalls the horror he went through:. - At dawn they would raid the cells and read out the names. - Those whose names were read were taken out to be executed. - They would take those they wanted to execute before breakfast
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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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LOL, Turkish football fans in Germany chants: “we don’t want refugees in our country” .
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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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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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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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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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BREAKING- Erdogan says he hopes Syrian rebels’ march to Homs and Damascus will continue without any accidents and troubles. “We had called Assad. We said, let's determine the future of Syria together. We did not receive a positive response.” .
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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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An execution book in Sednaya prison recorded 29,000 deaths.
#Syria: this is what people have to do to know the fate of their relatives in Saydnayah prison. Exploring all those files where everything is noted, including the date of execution. There's info on ~29,000 ppl there. Before fleeing, the guards also removed the camera recordings.
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