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Turkey voices concern over tanker attacks in Black Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/turkey-voices-concern-over-tanker.html

#Thomas #Barrack,
a longtime ally of Donald Trump
and U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria
maintained a close, personal relationship with #Jeffrey

Santa Ynez Ranch Owner and Trump Insider Called Jeffrey Epstein a ‘First Class Human Being’
Thomas Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, operates Happy Canyon Vineyard and its polo grounds.

I've never seen this outside of my family in the wild (some research shows there are other people online who've made it/have recipes).
We make “turkey roll" with leftover turkey dinner. I chop turkey, veggies, and stuffing up into small pieces, fry up some fresh onions celery garlic, and stuff it into biscuit dough, then bake.
It gets a "sauce" of either leftover extra-thickened gravy or a béchamel-ish white sauce. It's pretty tasty and the fresh bi…

The Turkey Trot to fund Loaves and Fishes got off to a chaotic start with the crowd overflowing the parking lot and surrounding my position
#photo #photography #flrc

Image credit: Google Gemini.
#MAGA #Christmas

Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)
https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/02/21/turkey…

Turkey reviews major social media platforms' handling of children’s data - Turkish Minute
Turkey’s data protection watchdog has opened a review of how six major social media platforms process children’s personal data, as Ankara prepares separate legislation that would tighten state control over online accounts and content.

"Is multiband 6 useless if im living in Turkey? It looks like an amazing feature but on the coverage map it shows that it does not cover Turkey. Does that mean its just useless for me?" : r/gshock
https://www.reddit.com/r/gshock/comments/w

Russia provides Turkey $9 billion in new financing for Akkuyu nuclear plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/russia-provides-turkey-billion-in.html

Turkey says it arrested 115 suspected ISIS militants (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5663301-turkey-isis-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p28#a251225p28

Woman running across one of the suspension bridges at Stewart Park for this year's Turkey Trot
#photo #photography #sports

Truer words were never spoken. I will die on this hill too! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/25/the-hill-i-will-die-on-fruit-with-meat-cranberry-sauce-roas…

I never got far from the wood stove today but a few days ago I spotted this snag covered with fungi near the high spot in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #forest

My mom @anne.onbowen.ca found a German stuffed turkey recipe that we cooked together today (Germans celebrate on Christmas Eve).
It turned out really nice.
https://recipe.exchange/recipes/01KD9R9K5XFP4FK32D10Y7SCSG

Ein gefüllter Truthahn zu Weihnachten
German recipe for a stuffed Christmas Turkey, with a stuffing of chestnuts, sausage meat, orange & apple, and five spice Der St. Moritzer Fabrizio Zanetti ist ein «Wundermann»: Fine Dining im...

"From turkey to cinnamon, here’s how the climate crisis is threatening our favourite Christmas foods"
#Christmas #ChristmasFood #Climate

How climate change is threatening our favourite Christmas foods
Many key ingredients for festive foods have been hit by climate change, causing yields to plummet or forcing farmers to introduce adaptations.

A look at The Amargi, a new nonprofit digital outlet based in Germany covering Kurdish news in English and trying to avoid favoring any specific political party (Seyma Bayram/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/amargi-kurdish

‘The Amargi’ imagines a free Kurdish press.
The Amargi, a digital outlet based in Germany, takes the lead on Kurdish news.

"Brussels files declaration of intervention, joining Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and Turkey in supporting the case against Israel at the World Court"
Belgium joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/belgium-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel/

"Unlike Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, Britain declined to offer any protection to those of its nationals who took part in the humanitarian mission, and made no comment when Israel arrested its citizens."
New freedom flotilla to sail for Gaza in the spring | Morning Star
https://

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

Fascinating analysis by Aurel Sari on mechanisms to effectively suspend a #NATO member (or lack thereof).
https://www.justsecurity.org/66574/can-turkey-be-expelled-from-nato/

Can Turkey be Expelled from NATO? It's Legally Possible, Whether or Not Politically Prudent
The absence of a specific mechanism in the North Atlantic Treaty does not prevent suspending or terminating an ally's membership.

Turkey investigates crash of alleged Russian reconnaissance drone, third such incident in weeks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/turkey-investigates-crash-of-alleged.html

Turkey's Zeynep Sönmez says it is more important to be a "good human being than a good tennis player"
after helping carry a fainting ball girl off court during her opening Australian Open match.
https://sport…

Turkey's Zeynep Sönmez helps ball girl who fainted on court during Australian Open match
The ball girl collapsed in Sönmez's arms as Sönmez helped her to a seat in the shade. Sönmez went on to a first-round upset of No. 11 seed Ekaterina...

Cowboys' Jake Ferguson puts foot down about overturned TD; explains turkey grab https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/03/cowboys-jake-ferguson-overturned-touchdown-ca…

TIL that some select economies go like this in terms of nominal GDP:
USA - 30 trillion USD
EU - 21 trillion
China - 19 trillion
India - 4 trillion
UK - 4 trillion
Mercosur - 3 trillion
Russia - 2.5 trillion
EU candidates - 2 trillion (although most of it is Turkey)
EFTA - 1.5 trillion
As a comparison, the whole of Africa gets to about 3 trillion.

It was approaching time to renew my Global Entry Membership. One of the questions required for renewal was to list the countries I’ve been to since 2020.
Each country visited had to be selected from a list. The UI was excellent. I could type a substring and the options would be limited to countries containing that substring ✅. I couldn’t find Turkey. Searched Tu, scrolled the unfiltered list no Turkey.
WHY?

Turkey shoots down 'out of control' drone over Black Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/turkey-shoots-down-out-of.html

Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-07/crypto-g…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is National Toast Day, like you didn't have it circled on your fake holiday calendar. Canadians consume approximately 1.4 billion kilograms of #Bread annually which sounds like a lot until you compare us with Turkey where per capita consumption is almost 200 kilos annually. Bread consumption in Canada was down slightly in 2025, attributed to higher prices due to tariffs. But home baking and shopping at local bakeries all increased. Healthier bread options also increased their market share as customers opted for high-fibre ingredients and foods enriched with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics... and a bunch-of-other-otics. It may be good news that there are plenty of gut-friendly options available in the shape of whole grain and rich-in-fibre bakery products, but IMO a lot of them taste like cardboard. I said it... not sorry...
#CanadaIsAwesome #ALittleBitOfToast
What is your favourite type of toast?
Plain white sandwich bread
Sourdough
Bagel of any type
Calabrese
English Muffin

Christmas tradition
Twelve days of hearty roasted
Veggie turkey stew.
#dailyhaikuprompt - stew
#haiku
#poem

Im #Anime "Turkey! Time to Strike" geht's um einen Bowling-Klub mit fünf Mädchen, die beim Bowlen in die Vergangenheit reisen (!) und sich in der Sengoku-Zeit des japanischen Mittelalters wiederfinden. Sie kommen im Hof der Lokalherrscher bei fünf Schwestern unter, lernen die Zeit und ihre Probleme kennen, denen sie sich bald auch selbst stellen müssen.
Ein ziemlich wilde Mischun…

I wish I had seen this thread before Turkey Day so I could send it to EVERYONE.
https://bsky.app/profile/jenmsft.bsky.social/post/3m6hwnxq5lk2f
So yeah, use it for the next holiday / long weekend.
(How to schedule teams and outlook messages so that they …

Jen Gentleman (@jenmsft.bsky.social)
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can schedule teams messages and outlook messages so that they arrive on Monday if someone is out for thanksgiving week and it's not urgent

I saw this image and experienced turkey nostalgia this is terrible lmao

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

Today I installed a water heater in a neighbor's RV because the built in hybrid one blew out one of the water connections. He happened to have a 20 gallon electric one sitting behind his place for a few years now. Took a couple hours of work, I'd say. He gave me $400.
I'm also almost finished cooking a turkey in the perfectly good smoker someone left by the dumpster a couple months ago that just needed the screws tightened and the bracket on the firebox side flipped 180 de…

A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a student threatened with deportation after co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/immigration-judge-…

Immigration Judge Says Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Cannot Be Deported
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Monk'D:
🎵 Stuffy Turkey
#MonkD
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uhMIRBwvsXAfVGrLqdGJs

Turkey's intelligence says Ukraine-Russia war in strategic stalemate, with outcome hinging on negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/turkeys-intelligence-says-ukrainerussia-war.html

If every one of you buys a chicken, turkey, or quail then I will be able to afford a huge articulated satellite dish to use as a radio telescope
I am also happy to provide deep space object tracking and comms as possible to the community (except whackers)

Uber agrees to buy Getir's delivery operations from Mubadala, without giving the terms; a November 2025 report said it would value Getir's business at up to $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

how could she

“Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10am Friday,” wrote the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.”
US officials also indicated the talks in Oman will go forward.
They will take place amid a massive buildup of US naval and airpower in the region and appear to be a last chance for Tehran to avert a US strike against the country’s leadership and nuclear …

Egypt plans to ban Roblox in a bid to curb kids' exposure to potentially harmful online material; the Middle East's most populous nation joins Qatar and Turkey (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

"Türkiye installs 4.7 GW of solar in 2025"
#Turkey #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Türkiye installs 4.7 GW of solar in 2025
Türkiye’s cumulative solar capacity is approaching 25 GW after another strong year for new deployments, led by installations for self-consumption in the commercial and industrial market.

The Turkey Trot was a dog-positive and even zany event this year with runners coming and going
#photo #photography #running

The NY Times reports that Trump presented Maduro with an ultimatum in December, telling him to leave office and go into exile in Turkey. Maduro refused.
Then, Maduro went back onstage this week, dancing to an electronic song that said “no crazy war”.
Maduro’s “regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/04/nicolas-maduro-jailed-us-attack-venezuela-donald-trump-reaction-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Turkey Trot runner with funny hat and a hidden bib
#photo #photography #flrc #running

Man triumphantly crosses bridge at Turkey Trot
#photo #photography #sports #running

Runners off the line at the 2025 Turkey Trot in front of the Ithaca High School
#photo #photograph #ithaca #ihs