Google calls them “hyper-scale cloud regions,” but they are massive data centers that US towns refuse to host. They leave a heavy environmental footprint. Turkey is easier. Erdoğan approves and the public cannot push back.
Twitter is down. I don’t have the heart to tell the Bluesky crowd that Trump is still alive.
Turkish gov’t under fire over AI-powered blitz of speeding tickets during Eid holiday www.turkishminute.com/2025/06/07/t...
[OPINION] Erdoğan speaks of peace. His government prepares for war.
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EU urged to address censorship by large online platforms at authoritarian governments’ request
Turkey blocked 27,304 social media accounts in first four months of 2025: minister
#Italian PM Giorgia Meloni thanks Erdoğan for reducing irregular migrant departures from #Turkey to “zero,” calling migration cooperation a success.
Moment of 6.2 quake caught live on air by #CNN Türk: Anchors interrupted their broadcast as the studio shook violently during the #earthquake off #İstanbul’s coast.
A 6.2 magnitude #earthquake struck off the coast of Silivri in the Marmara Sea near #İstanbul, shaking Turkey’s most populous city and surrounding provinces.
Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said there were no signs of damage to highways, airports, trains or metro lines.
"Whether the alleged blackmail archive ever surfaces remains uncertain. But even in rumored form, it has cast a shadow over Fidan and disrupted what had been, until now, a carefully curated image that made him the candidate to fill Erdoğan’s shoes in the eyes of many analysts."
The humanitarian aid system in Gaza is “facing total collapse” due to Israel’s blockade on aid and supplies, ongoing since March 2, warn the heads of 12 major aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children.
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🎥""People in #Turkey, the Middle East, Russia, and China understand what's happening in the United States very clearly because they have lived in environments of political repression where there are some things you may not talk about." — Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social)
🎥 “The goal here is not to deport one student... The goal here is to quash criticism of Israel... to create a climate of fear.” — Sarah Leah Whitson ( @sarahleah1.bsky.social)
🎥“An environment of terrorism”—Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social ) on the rising cost of pro-Palestine speech in the US.
"How is it possible that the United States is hurting itself, hurting its own country, hurting its own freedoms in order to protect the interests of a tiny genocidal regime thousands of miles away?"
Speaking to Turkish Minute's @bunyamintekin.bsky.social, Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social), executive director of @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social, calls what’s happening in the US today “a deliberate campaign of repression, fear, intimidation — some would say really an environment of terrorism.”
Death of jailed teacher’s daughter is a rights abuse, Turkey should free political prisoners: British MP
Pro-government commentators in Turkey have begun promoting the idea of Gazans relocating to Muslim countries, prompting backlash and speculation that President Erdoğan may be preparing to shift his stance on Trump's widely condemned displacement plan.
Stay informed. Follow @turkishminute.com for reliable updates on Turkey.
Digital Exodus: Turks Turn to Bluesky After Crackdown on X newsaboutturkey.com/2025/04/05/d...
With Erdoğan’s top rival jailed, protests crushed, and X blocking accounts at the government’s request, more Turks are turning to Bluesky.
More than 39,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have had one or both parents killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal war, says the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day.
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I have no sympathy for Israelis, nor for Israel supporters who say they "feel unsafe". This isn't because I am uncaring, it's because I know any sympathy I might point in that direction will be harnessed and used to murder Palestinians, start wars, and destroy free speech rights.
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on Thursday issued an unprecedented call for the militant group to lay down its arms & disband, a development that has drawn a cautious response from the Turkish government, celebrations among Kurds and initial silence from much of the opposition.
Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails released in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of emaciation and abuse.
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The absolute stain on the reputation of the US was/is the genocide of the Palestinians, which it aided and abetted.
🚨 Turkish gov't got Elon Musk's X to block journalist Metin Cihan's account in Turkey.
His "crime"? Exposing Turkey's ongoing trade with Israel during Gaza genocide using official data.
Censorship in full force. He moves to Bluesky.
Trump has deported 205 Indian illegal immigrants back to India chained and handcuffed. The military aircraft carrying these Indians, mostly Gujaratis is expected to land soon in India. Modi and Hindutva Gang have gone silent about it.
