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Istanbul protests: Riot police clash with ‘300,000’ people in Turkey https://t.co/fdS68ftSUx

RT @murat_somer_eng: Defying Erdoğan authorities' unlawful ban, thousands are marching to the square of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality…

RT @MonicaLMarks: Amidst nationwide protests against Erdogan's decision to lock up his top political opponent, the Turkish president sends…

RT @nowhaber: #CANLI | Saraçhane https://t.co/KYkuYvmnfc

Turkey won't surrender to 'street terror', President Erdogan warns .. as the opposition calls for a third night of protest against the detention of Istanbul mayor ⁦@ekrem_imamoglu⁩ who is Erdogan’s likely rival for the Presidency. https://t.co/4KQDqscDAi

A tense time

Timur Kuran @timurkuran

Don’t underestimate the danger the ongoing nationwide protests pose to Erdoğan’s regime. Whereas the 2013 Gezi protests were uncoordinated, Turkey’s leading party, which controls local government in all but one of the top 15 metropolises, is openly encouraging people to take to

RT @MonicaLMarks: During Istanbul's 2013 Gezi protests, I was teaching at Boğaziçi University. Erdoğan derided young demonstrators then as…

Newly placed on my horizon: seems like ⁦@Marriott⁩ hotels put themselves up there with the wonders of the Topkapi palace and the Aya Sofia https://t.co/FVxAIron6a

RT @ragipsoylu: University students in Turkey continue to protest Imamoglu’s detention for a second day in Ankara https://t.co/ZzBpDENkMS

M23 rebels capture strategic mining hub of Walikale in eastern DRC https://t.co/Koie4V4SOn

RT @ankahabera: Dilek Kaya İmamoğlu Saraçhane'de konuşuyor / İstanbul #Canlı https://t.co/K1x7gjJwGr

“I fear our children will inherit this war” a grieving pregnant widow says at the funeral of her soldier husband. ⁦@OrlaGuerin⁩ reports on the mood in Ukraine as it enters a 4th year of war. ⁦@goktay⁩ @vicechat⁩ ⁦@Anastasiia_Lev⁩ https://t.co/ETODlrlVvg

RT @AndrewWJHarding: Here's our radio documentary about the Pelicot trial and its implications for France. @BBCSounds @bbcradio4 with @arle…

RT @rayajalabi: Assad left without so much as a whisper to the people who had pledged fealty to him for decades. He didn’t even bother warn…

RT @BowenBBC: The man who led the offensive that overthrew Bashar al Assad invited me to the presidential palace in Damascus for an intervi…

RT @BowenBBC: Our latest ⁦@BBCNews⁩ ⁦@BBCWorld⁩ report from Syria. Some hope for the future but Syrians want to punish the Assads and those…

RT @will_christou: Moammar has been searching for his brother for 39 years, arrested by Syrian soldiers in Lebanon when he was 18. He hadn’…