I remember watching the 2022 documentary
"Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm"
(Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya
with awe and shame at how much I had not known.
The film looks at the difficult lives of Turkish workers in Germany through the music they produced.
One widely popular song, sung by Yüksel Özkasap, included the lines:
“Germany, everything about you is a lie. You have stolen my life and taken my love.”
The language textbook
"Türk…
ICE assaulted a Native man—violently pulled him from his car—and detained him. He was then released because he is emphatically not an immigrant. Today they charged him—on a secret warrant and secret indictment, zero public evidence—with assaulting an ICE agent.
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I Got You On Tape:
🎵 Church Of The Real
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Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Temporary dog parents: Live long and foster.
Glowy stuff: Live long and phosphoresce.
Residents of Istanbul: Live long and Bosporus.
#hashtaggames
#livelongandanything
A Istanbul, l’emprise grandissante des gangs de jeunes ultraviolents
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/01/15/a-istanbul-l-emprise-grandissante-des-gangs-de-jeunes-ultraviolents_666223…
The bigger reason Amazon needs Ring by Phil Edwards
#journalism