Claire Sadar

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Turkish prosecutors seek up to 3 years for 11 people over protesting trade with Israel - Stockholm Center for Freedom Turkish prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to three years for 11 people who staged a sit-in outside a government trade office in the northwestern province of Bursa to protest Turkey’s…

Turkish prosecutors seek up to 3 years for 11 people over protesting trade with Israel #HumanRightsForAll

Minister: Turkey preparing for compulsory ID verification for all social media users A free expression group accused the government of "aiming to build a digital panopticon."

Minister: Turkey preparing for compulsory ID verification for all social media users bianet.org/haber/minist...

Turkish lawyer briefly detained after seeking to record client’s torture claim - Stockholm Center for Freedom A Turkish lawyer was briefly detained Wednesday on accusations of “slander of a public official” after he insisted on having his client’s torture allegations recorded in a police report in İzmir, the…

Turkish lawyer briefly detained after seeking to record client’s torture claim #HumanRightsForAll

How many others?

DW correspondent arrested in Turkey A correspondent, who has been with DW in Turkey for several years, was arrested in Ankara on February 19. He was taken to the headquarters of the Istanbul Provincial Police, the highest police authori...

A DW correspondent was arrested in Turkey yesterday. DW Director General Massing calls for his immediate release: "The fact that a journalist is being treated like a serious criminal, taken away by 30 police officers and brought directly to Istanbul, serves as a deliberate act of intimidation."

The @bostonglobe.com and its sister publication @statnews.com win George Polk Awards — the Globe for its reporting on Rümeysa Öztürk, Stat for covering "the erosion of the FDA and the disruption of American scientific research." #journalism liu.edu/polk-awards/...

Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵

LOLOLOLOLOL

They terrorized this woman for nothing.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

“What are you doing about the reverse vampire problem”

Cancel your prime subscription. Boycott Amazon.

I am horrified on behalf of my friends and colleagues who were affected.

I am horrified as well by the implications for a country that is already awash in bullshit and badly in need of access to real reporting.

Turkey/Türkiye related mentions in the Epstein Files

As of February 2, 2026, the publicly released Epstein Files include several references to Turkey, focusing on allegations of international trafficking, diplomatic contacts, and broader geopolitical implications. However, as far as I could see,…

“On the night of the 28th of the month of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, in the year 1232 (March 17, 1817), at the 11th hour, my noble daughter Aisha Siddiqa has honored the world with her arrival. May God the Exalted make her esteemed in both worlds, and grant her to be a blessed successor. Amen.”

✏️ #Birth Record Inscribed by an Ottoman Father on the Blank Page of a Manuscript: “On the night of March 17, 1817, at 11, my noble daughter Aisha Siddiqa has honored the world with her arrival. May God the Exalted make her esteemed in both worlds, and grant her to be a blessed successor. Amen.”

I too have been feeling like I'm veering towards conspiracy after all of this. Thank you for talking it through in a way that makes sense

There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.

Before Minneapolis, there was the Boston Massacre. My 1983 thesis on how the press covered it. All of a sudden, the Boston Massacre is in the news. Journalists and historians such as Josh Marshall, Radley Balko and Ted Widmer have all written essays in recent days arguing that the uprising a…

New at Media Nation. Before Minneapolis there was the Boston Massacre. In 1983, I wrote my master's thesis on how the press of Colonial Boston covered it. dankennedy.net/2026/02/02/b...

Bizi Türkiyeleştiriyorlar

Boston Massachusetts today a large crowd of people came to show solidarity with Minneapolis. A Nation United against ICE and tyranny.

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding? The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up

Here’s why I think this is largely misguided: that such speedy backsliding has been achieved without *the need* for “policy changes” is not an illustration of the resilience of institutions: it shows how compatible with autocracy those institutions were to begin with. www.ft.com/content/b474...

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths? Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full...

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Kraft was at Trump’s side at the ‘Melania’ premiere - The Boston Globe The Patriots owner had a seat of honor at the Kennedy Center screening of the first lady's documentary Thursday night in D.C.

Fuck ICE
Fuck the Pats

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/a...

The Shadow Network Drawing Fish in the Sand with Their Feet

Wait what

@mayorwu.boston.gov why aren't we doing this here? What is your plan for protecting Haitian Bostonians once TPS expires?

They yap. But clearly not one of them has actually studied this stuff at any level.

Tide might be turning. Keep pushing. Keep calling, donating, protesting, all of it. Don’t stop, especially if Trump starts throwing them overboard. Don’t stop until they’re all gone