#News from October: “Without question, #Trump can claim credit for the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal. #Qatar, #Turkey and #Egypt used their leverage with Hamas to force it to accept.
That made it a joint effort, but Trump’s role was decisive.
Without his push to demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to terms that he had previously rejected, the deal would not have been signed.” #politics #Israel #Gaza #USA
on 02025-12-11#Weaponry #news from April. Another repetition of the NYT’s claim that in #Ukraine, “#drones caused 70 percent of battlefield injuries or deaths in 2024, supplanting artillery,” inspiring #Burkina-Faso, etc. “[#Turkey] is Africa’s top supplier, with a total of 32 agreements, 28 of which have occurred since 2021. Türkiye has succeeded by appealing to the desire of countries across Africa to acquire affordable, modern weapons outside the supply chains of major technological powers. Israel, the #UAE, and #Iran have similarly expanded their reach on the continent via the supply of drones.
On the demand side, #Nigeria (18 acquisitions), Algeria (15), Ethiopia (12), and Morocco (11) are Africa’s top drone seekers. (...) Enterprises in nine African countries (Algeria, #Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, #Nigeria, #South-Africa, Sudan, and #Tunisia) now produce military drones, supplying approximately 12 percent of Africa’s overall drone market. South Africa, the continent’s longest-standing drone producer, has manufactured unmanned military systems since the 1970s. #ENOVA Robotics, a Tunisian company, is exporting 50 of its ground security robots to the United States.”
on 02025-06-17#Burkina-Faso bought #Bayraktar TB2 #drones from #Turkey in 02022, following sales to Togo, Djibouti, Libya, #Ethiopia, Morocco, #Tunisia, and Niger. #weaponry
on 02025-06-17#Burkina-Faso bought several #Bayraktar #drones (TB2 and Akinci) from #Turkey last year, following earlier purchases. #weaponry
on 02025-06-17#TRT #news says Erdogan calls for “restraint”, seeming “very, very concerned” and saying NATO “needs to prepare”, and “opposes #Ukraine’s use of US long-range missiles”, which #Turkey calls a “mistake”. Also an interview with Sergey #Karaganov, advisor to Putin. He also says that under [circumstances I didn’t understand] the #USA and Western Europe would “get a nuclear response”. Former Turkish diplomat Gulru Gezer says she’s getting “chills on my spine” from the US and Russian rhetoric from the other panelists. Karaganov: “The problem is two-pronged. One is to win the victory in Ukraine over the West, not over Ukraine. [The] West has to be defeated. Second, the third world war could be avoided.” He accidentally called Putin “president Yeltsin” at one point. #video #politics
on 02024-11-22> “Deep state” is a calque of the Turkish word derin devlet (lit. ‘deep state’). The modern concept of a #deep-state is associated with #Turkey, a presumed secret network of military officers and their civilian allies trying to preserve the secular order based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 1923. #politics
on 02024-11-22The New Yorker’s #Deep-State “letter” from 02012, now without the subtitle describing Erdogan as a “moderate”; apparently the phrase “deep state” is a translation of the Turkish derin devlet. #Turkey #politics #history
on 02024-11-22the #Deep-State term was popularized in this “letter” in the New Yorker on March 12, 02012, by Dexter Filkins, entitled “THE DEEP STATE: The Prime Minister [Erdogan] is revered as a moderate, but how far will he go to stay in power?” #Turkey #politics #history
on 02024-11-22#History of #Fethullah-Gulen and #politics and the #Turkish-coup. #Turkey
on 02017-08-06NASA scientist "Serkan Golge" still in jail a year after being accused of supporting the #Turkey #coup. #human-rights
on 02017-08-06Arrest warrants in #Turkey issued for 105 “tech experts”, shortly after a mass arrest at a civil society #security training. #politics
on 02017-07-11#Turkey prohibits teaching evolution in schools
on 02017-07-01annotated #video segments from the #USA attack on Kurdish protestors by #Turkey during #Erdoǧan’s visit. #human-rights #politics
on 02017-05-26Juan Cole commented in 2015 on #Turkey president Erdoǧan and how he came to power.
on 02016-11-21Snapshot of the #Turkey internet cut during the #Turkish-coup. #human-rights
on 02016-11-21#Iraq seems to be successfully excluding the troops from #Turkey so far from the assault on Mosul.
on 02016-10-23More on today’s attack on Mosul. Rebels from #Syria backed by #Turkey retook Dabiq this morning. Says the total anti-#Daesh forces are only about 30000. Also says the peshmerga number about 4000. #USA has 5000 troops in #Iraq overall, not just in this attack. #war
on 02016-10-17#Turkey’s Erdogan is angry #USA is still considering whether to extradite Gülen; #Iraq labels Turkish forces “occupiers”
on 02016-10-14#Turkey has been training #peshmerga at Bashiqa, #Iraq? “The U.S.-backed assault on [Mosul] has been expected to begin this month.”
on 02016-10-14“#Turkey’s President Tells Iraqi Leader to ‘Know His Place’” Erdogan refuses to withdraw troops at Bashiqa, #Iraq, near Mosul, where they are to fight #Daesh; also he personally insulted Haider al-Abadi. #politics
on 02016-10-14WaPo argues that #Twitter #censorship of Zeynalov for #Turkey is bad
on 02016-10-10“The Turkish coup plotters discovered that ByLock was not secure because they had penetrated the Turkish intelligence service.” #ByLock #Turkey #crypto #security #Turkish-coup
on 02016-10-07#Iraq expels #Turkey’s army from near Mosul
on 02016-10-06The government has a list of the 250k people in #Turkey who installed the supposedly secure communication app "Bylock" and has arrested 53k of them. #human-rights #free-speech
on 02016-10-06“Twitter told me that it will block my account at the request of Turkey for “instigating terrorism,” putting an end to my ~7-year reporting,” says journalist Mahir Zeynalov. #Twitter #censorship #human-rights #Turkey
on 02016-09-26#Iran (and #Russia) offer military support to #Turkey against #USA, substantially increasing risk of #WWIII spreading [in Turkish]
on 02016-08-08Apparently #Turkey has a "secret pact" with #Daesh, and Turkish intelligence agencies defend Daesh agents against Turkish police? #politics
on 02016-07-24discussion thread on the failed #Turkey coup
on 02016-07-21Overview of the military conflict between PKK #Kurds and the government of #Turkey.
on 02016-01-13#Turkey claims to have killed several thousand #Kurds fighting for the PKK in 2015, which in turn killed several hundred Turkish soldiers and police.
on 02016-01-13The PKK is in open rebellion against #Turkey as well as fighting against #Daesh (which Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê refers to as “gangs”), killing thousands of Turkish soldiers and even more Daesh fighters. This is a sort of English republication of a release from the “People’s Defense Forces Press Office (HPG-BIM)”. #Kurds
on 02016-01-13