The #PKK Kurdish militant group will disband as part of a #peace initiative with #Turkey

source: npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65852/…

#news #politics #diplomacy #war #terror #military #terrorism #Kurdistan #fight #conflict

Turkish town of 25,000 gets involuntary high from 20-ton #cannabis burn

source: turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/turki…

#Turkey #drugs #news

Turkish town of 25,000 gets involuntary high from 20-ton cannabis burn

When authorities burned 20 tons of confiscated cannabis in the eastern Turkish town of Lice on April 18 as the resulting smoke cloud effectively gave the entire population of 25,000 an unintended high, causing widespread health issues and outrage amo…

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Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure and still this article claims #BlueSky is decentralized:

turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/b…

It isn't - this kind of #censorship could never happen on the #fediverse

Censored users just would move on to another server or start their own.
#Mastodon #BlueSky #Turkey

Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure - Turkish Minute

Bluesky has restricted access to 72 accounts and one post in Turkey, marking a shift for the decentralized social media platform that had previously resisted government censorship, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing a report by the Fre…

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Semiok, born in 1983, is a Turkish street artist who turns urban features into the heart of his art. Active since 1996 and a member of the Dsk and Ok collectives, he uses objects like trees and pipes to create playful and unexpected visuals.

A tree becomes a paintbrush, a pipe becomes a crying face – Semiok’s work transforms overlooked parts of the city into something extraordinary.

Follow Semiok on Instagram and visit his Website.

Street Art of Popeye in the Kocaeli Province, Turkey

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What do you think about the street art by Semi OK?

In Istanbul, Turkey. They made a statue to honor a stray cat that used to sit in this position and watch the passers by. I lived there for a few months and they really love their cats (who are everywhere).

Cats in the neighbourhood came to pay their respects to Istanbul’s most famous feline.

One month after its installation the sculpture went missing. A comment from Turkey MP Tuncay Özkan: “They stole the Tombili statue. They are enemies of everything beautiful. All they know is hate, tears and war”. The statue was safely returned a short time later.

It all happened in 2016. The the cat’s name Tombili and the statue was made by the artist Seval Şahin.

Comments:

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#Lawyers for a detained Tufts #student from #Turkey demand her case remain in #Massachusetts

source: independent.co.uk/news/massach…

#Ozturk is among several people with ties to American universities who attended demonstrations or publicly expressed support for Palestinians during the war in #Gaza and who recently had #visas revoked or been stopped from entering the U.S. She was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in The Tufts Daily last year criticizing the #university’s response to student activists’ demands.

#journalism #press #Palestine #criticism #politics #usa #fail #humanrights #problem #news #justice #crime #protest #visa

Lawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand her case remain in Massachusetts

Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that her case should be handled by the federal court in Massachusetts

^{Michael Casey (The Independent)}

On a more serious note, whoever is behind the idea of dressing up as #Pikachu during the protest made an amazing job, medias all around the #world shared pictures of them and were forced at the same time to talk about the Turkish protests.

#police #protest #politics #Turkey #arrest #riot

Wann har das angefangen, dass man 1.000.000 Menschen als "Zehntausende" bezeichnet? Das lese ich zuletzt häufig.

#Türkei #Imamoğlu #Proteste #Turkey #Fascism #Erdogan #Protest #Riot #Antireport #Police #Polizeigewalt

In Turkish democracy your lawyer has the right to remain silent.

#erdoğan #turkey #türkiye #fascism #faşizm #imamoglu #imamoğlu mastodon.social/@rmblaber1956/…

if they loose in #Ankara and #Istanbul, #Europe is doomed to #fascism

ALL SUPPORT TO THE RESISTANCE IN #turkey

Unter dem Vorwand, vermeintlich „irreguläre Migration“ zu bekämpfen, hat die Bundesregierung ein Abschiebeabkommen mit der Diktatur in Ankara geschlossen. Gleichzeitig wurden durch die rot-grün-gelbe Regierung die Waffenexporte an Ankara angekurbelt. Waffensysteme im Wert von 250 Millionen Euro sollen an die Türkei geliefert werden. Ob diese Waffen Schmiermittel für das Abschiebeabkommen waren, bleibt unklar, allerdings sollen sich ab Oktober die Abschiebezahlen massiv ändern…….

Abschiebeabkommen: „Bundesregierung bekämpft Menschen, die Schutz suchen“

anfdeutsch.com/aktuelles/absch…

#Migration #Refugees #Turkey #Erdogan #ampel #Bundesregierung

Abschiebeabkommen: „Bundesregierung bekämpft Menschen, die Schutz suchen“

Unter dem Vorwand, vermeintlich „irreguläre Migration“ zu bekämpfen, hat die Bundesregierung ein Abschiebeabkommen mit der Diktatur in Ankara geschlossen. Gleichzeitig wurden durch die rot-grün-gel...

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Über hundert Festnahmen nach Feministischem Nachtmarsch

"Beim Feministischen Nachtmarsch in #Istanbul sind über 100 Menschen festgenommen worden, weil sie trotz Verbots auf der Straße waren. Eine Frau wurde wegen Präsidentenbeleidigung angezeigt. Sie soll „Lauf Tayyip, lauf – Die Frauen kommen“ skandiert haben....."

emrawi.org/?Uber-hundert-Festn…

#8M #8M2025 #Erdogan #Turkey #EU #Repression #Polizeigewalt #Staat #Herrschaft #Antireport

Über hundert Festnahmen nach Feministischem Nachtmarsch

Beim Feministischen Nachtmarsch in Istanbul sind über 100 Menschen festgenommen worden, weil sie trotz Verbots auf der Straße waren. Eine Frau wurde wegen Präsidentenbeleidigung angezeigt. Sie (...)

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