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PhD in political science from Université de Montréal. Turkish and Iranian politics. News junkie. Tennis 🎾 fan.

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Thank you for this highly informative post Arghavan.

31.01.2026 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

07.12.2025 22:25 👍 314 🔁 227 💬 18 📌 46
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Musk causing thousands of deaths by cutting USAID funding is not discussed enough

09.12.2025 14:49 👍 170 🔁 47 💬 7 📌 3

There's no diplomatic solution to the Ru-Ukraine war; there's never been one and there never will be. Ru wants to take over Ukraine and won't back off until its capacity to continue dwindles, either because the Ru economy or the Pu regime face collapse. Diplomacy plays no role in these processes.

21.05.2025 13:37 👍 179 🔁 58 💬 13 📌 5
Pope giving sermon

Pope giving sermon

Pope Leo XIV: "We cannot forget our brothers and sisters who suffer because of war. In Gaza, the surviving children, families, and the elderly are reduced to starvation."

19.05.2025 22:08 👍 2920 🔁 693 💬 45 📌 25
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🚨This is who wants Poilievre to win.
Elon Musk. Alex Jones. Jordan Peterson. The loudest voices in the MAGA universe.

📣They’ve endorsed Poilievre because they see a chance to bring their chaos to Canada—defund public media, spread disinformation, and divide the country.

#SaveTheCBC #StopPoilievre

28.04.2025 02:37 👍 58 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 2

The world stands with Ukraine. We reject Russia and its Trump regime puppet government in D.C.

23.04.2025 16:39 👍 5359 🔁 1177 💬 121 📌 54

During Erdogan's speech, a textile worker who opened a placard that read: "AKP is cause, inflation is effect" is arrested.

21.04.2025 19:40 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Another example of how Hinkle’s pro-Palestine views are performative/self-serving. His politics are fundamentally pro-authoritarian. He admires Trump for his despotic rhetoric the same way he admired Assad for similar rhetoric used to justify the bombing of the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp.

19.04.2025 01:09 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Polls don’t win elections.

TURNOUT wins elections.

Vote early on 1 of 4 advanced voting days.

Bring friends and family.

Don’t assume anything or take anything for granted.

The consequences of getting this wrong are way too high for Canada.

Just ask the United States.

#VoteCarney #CanadaStrong

18.04.2025 21:06 👍 288 🔁 102 💬 14 📌 10
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28e jour d’incendie en Turquie. Encore beaucoup de choses à partager et si peu de temps! Voici au moins ce défilé organisé par les étudiants des Beaux-arts d’Istanbul avec les principaux acteurs des manifestations. Un moment de défoulement joyeux. Le rire fait partie de la lutte.

16.04.2025 06:40 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

We need to stop referring to Trump's thuggish yes-men as an "administration."

They're a regime.

Administrations uphold laws.

Regimes disappear dissenters, punish truth, and reward group think that upholds the despots reality.

14.04.2025 22:48 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If you protest this they'll deport you

13.04.2025 22:32 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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AMIA Bombing: No Leader is Above the Law for Crimes Against Humanity On April 9, 2025, more than 30 years after the bombing of the Jewish Community Center, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the lead prosecutor in the case is ...

Arrest warant against Iran's Supreme Leader for crime against humanity. Great news! The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center has published a legal analysis of this terrorist bombing in Argentina.
www.iranrights.org/newsletter/i...

10.04.2025 19:49 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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A huge number of Turkish accounts are now migrating to BlueSky from X due to Elon Musk’s cooperation with the Turkish regime in silencing dissent.

08.04.2025 13:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Derangement Syndrome was just a term used to gaslight people with common sense. Opposing Trump is as rational as it gets

06.04.2025 14:24 👍 133 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
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Trump has imposed tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands inhabited exclusively by penguins.

03.04.2025 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s always amusing when someone who has claimed that the French justice system is too lenient complains about her sentence being too harsh, especially when everyone knows she is guilty. Le Pen is a massive hypocrite, like all her friends on the far right!

31.03.2025 11:08 👍 341 🔁 54 💬 14 📌 3
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Here's a video of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper praising Mark Carney, for a “tremendous job” he did for Canada.

All of a sudden, conservatives are acting like none of this happened and that Carney is the ultimate evil for Canada.

Their inconsistency is mind-boggling!

30.03.2025 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Le maccarthysme est de retour dans les universités américaines.

27.03.2025 20:42 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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28.03.2025 03:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For 120 days straight, Georgians have been protesting daily in ~10 cities across the country.

We won’t stop until the Georgian Dream regime collapses — but we need your help.

Sanction GD leaders & their families. Show strong support for the Georgian people. #GeorgiaProtests

27.03.2025 18:36 👍 363 🔁 93 💬 6 📌 3

Interested in learning more on Turkey, democratic sliding and authoritarianism? Journal of Democracy articles by prominent scholars on Turkish politics are now open access.

You might also learn about what is going on in the U.S. and potentially what to expect.

27.03.2025 23:12 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Bizarre moment Pikachu spotted fleeing Turkish riot police 🤣😵
Bizarre moment Pikachu spotted fleeing Turkish riot police 🤣😵 YouTube video by The Scottish Sun

Mind-blowing scenes of protest from Turkey: given the authorities’ excessive use of tear gas against protesters, one Turkish protester is seen dressed up as Pikachu. Quite a tragi-comic creativity 😂😂😂

youtu.be/0EOYNPFaxD0?...

27.03.2025 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As the political crisis deepen in Turkey, Turkish people have started to put their money where their mouth is. After all, the Erdogan regime survives thanks to an intricate network of corporate alliances. There are calls for massive boycott of the following companies

25.03.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Manifestations en Turquie | Le mauvais calcul d’Erdoğan ? Les manifestations se multiplient en Turquie depuis l’arrestation du maire d’Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu. Le président Erdoğan survivra-t-il à la grogne populaire ?

Concernant la crise politique actuelle en turquie, voici une entrevue que jai donnée à
@lapresse.ca

lp.ca/tE0Lpk?shari...

25.03.2025 12:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Electrifying scenes from nationwide protests against the Erdogan regime. Meanwhile on pro-gov channels talking heads trying to normalize and rationalize Erdogan’s auto-golpe as a corruption probe 🤢

23.03.2025 18:43 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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When Erdoğan arrested the opposition mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, from trumped up charges, he had expected the public to be indifferent. But the contrary happened. Millions of people have been pouring into to the streets and protests continue.

24.03.2025 02:25 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This photo from a demonstration in Canada very well captures the scene!

24.03.2025 02:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0