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
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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
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
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
⚡️ 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.
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
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
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
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
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…
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
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.
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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.
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
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
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”
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…
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
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”
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”
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.“
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
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
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
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
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.”
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…”
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
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
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
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.”
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
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?”
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…