@yavuzbaydar
Journalist. Podcaster. Blogger. Author. https://yavuzbaydar.substack.com (Eng) https://yavuzlamola.substack.com (TR) Music broadcaster. Movie buff. Social Media Influencer. Knight-Wallace and Shorenstein Fellow. 2014 European Press Prize Laureate.
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
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It seems Germans --von der Leyen and Merz-- are the dividing forces here, ignoring the tenets of the EU, and here we are: bad seeds are sown for any future unity.
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My piece for Dutch-speaking followers.
Sanchez-mania: How Turks discovered their love for Spain.
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"Trump’s bombings, incursions betray the constitution – an inherently anti-monarch document that exclusively vests warmaking powers in the legislative branch in order to prevent such grave decisions from being made by any one person determined to become a king."
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“Trump ani karar veren ve değiştiren bir lider, ama gelinen aşamada artık rejim değişikliğinden geri adım atmak iyice zorlaştı.."
@yavuzbaydar.bsky.social'ın Ceng Sağnıç’la mülakatı.
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"End to Endless wars", as pledged by the supreme leader. :)
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Russia - Ukraine, and now this.
Age of forever wars.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous
2000’den bu yana son derece kaliteli filmler izledik (liste de var yazıda), ama P T Anderson’un filmi sarsılmaz bir şekilde zirvede. Her yönüyle. Hele şimdi tanıklık ettiğimiz dünyada.
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Aylar öncesinden Kürt milislerin İran harekatı için plana dahil edildiği konuşuluyordu.
Kürtlerin İran sahasına angajmanı konusunda iki senaryo var.
Türkiye’de Öcalan/PKK çizgisinin iktidarla ilişkisinde ise üç senaryo.
@yavuzbaydar.bsky.social ın analizi
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"Baku’s growing military cooperation with Israel has caused friction with Tehran. Both countries are majority Shia Muslim, and Iran is home to millions of ethnic Azeris – estimates range from about 15 to more than 20 million – many living in the north-western provinces bordering AZ."
(The Guardian)
"Azerbaijan, an oil-rich authoritarian state that has adopted a neutral stance in the Middle East conflict, has recently developed closer ties with Israel and the Trump administration while gradually moving away from Moscow.”+
"Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said the drone hit the terminal building at an airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran, damaging the complex and injuring two civilians. A second drone fell near a school in a nearby village. Baku said it reserved the right to retaliate.”+
"An Iranian drone struck an Azerbaijani airport near the two countries’ shared border, marking the first time a state in the Caucasus has been targeted by Iran since the start of the US-Israel war against Tehran.” +
Trump’ın İranlı ve Iraklı Kürtlere yaptığı “savaşa girin” çağrısı karşılık bulur mu? Öcalan ve DEM bu durumda “İç Cephe”ye daha çok mu yakınlaşacak?
@yavuzbaydar.bsky.social yazdı
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Sahne arkası: "Netanyahu iki ay sonra daha çok bastıracak, çok daha fazlasını alacaktı: İran liderliğini devirmeye yönelik tam bir savaş ortağı."
@yavuzbaydar.bsky.social'ın haber analizi.
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NATO Sec Gen Mark Rutte was remarkably evasive when asked the question by the BBC on whether or not he was informed by the USA about the strikes against Iran beforehand. Unwilling to say yes or no. Instead, he kept repeating how "extremely happy” he and many "unnamed" European leaders are. @cnn.com
In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? A vast and fragmented pile of immigration statistics from dozens of countries, stitched together by The Wall Street Journal, depicts a historic pattern.
Here are five takeaways from the analysis.
Congressional Democrats are moving to force votes to curb President Trump’s military action against Iran, denouncing the administration’s strikes on Saturday as illegal and accusing the White House of bypassing Congress.
“Savaş için gerekçe başkadır, stratejik hedef başka. Önce Venezuela, şimdi İran. Bu iki ülkenin ortak zenginliği stratejik hedefi, “endgame”i açıkça izah eder."
@yavuzbaydar.bsky.social yazdı: "Bu, en zengin fosil yakıt rezervleri için hegemonya savaşı."
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"Concepts of democratic self-determination, political autonomy, individual rights and adherence to moral principles are anathema to control-freak authoritarians such as Trump and Khamenei.” -- As peace is anathema to dupe-masters such as Netanyahu.
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Hedef, 2027 sonu veya 2028 başı için erken seçim ilanı. Gerekli olan 360 oy için de DEM kıvama geldi gelecek. Senaryo işliyor.
”Popprinsen” Tarkan gav tröst i en deprimerad autokrati. @yavuzbaydar.bsky.social skriver om ett Turkiet, där kulturkriget rasar och ingen längre törs skratta. www.svd.se/a/Okr55l/pop...
"En voulant fuir la politique, la Berlinale s’y est brûlée : ses lauréats ont mis à nu la fausse neutralité d’un festival en pleine tourmente.”
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"The boomerang, hit in two directions. First, it hit the festival itself. Second, it hit the German government, because the policing of speech is producing a chilling echo of Germany’s darkest reflexes -- discipline, denunciation, conformity."
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And Sarkozy in jail.
And add also Netanyahu and Putin, on the loose, with arrest warrants.
What a wonderful world.
Here's my take on what many in observer circles were wondering -- put in a broader context. 👇
Why was Turkey invisible at Munich Security Conference?
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@ghoshworld.bsky.social @theguardian.com @politico.eu @cnn.com @nytimes.com @foreignpolicy.com
He was a hell of an actor who made our lives richer, brought us much closer to understanding human condition.
RIP Duvall
