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Video from the cellphone of a paramedic found with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza shows that the ambulances & fire truck they were traveling in were clearly marked & had their emergency lights on when Israeli troops fired on them https://t.co/F2iRbXv7xK via @NYTimes

RT @marklowen: Well this week has been quite an experience, detained by Turkish police while covering the anti-government protests and depo…

RT @marklowen: 📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from T…

The Erdogan I knew is a mirror image of the man he’s just locked up says Andrew Finkel in this article for the Times https://t.co/ranf7b0Da9

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