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A ballistic missile launched from Iran entered Turkish airspace on Monday
and was shot down by NATO defenses, the Turkish defense ministry said in a statement.
It was the second time in six days that Turkey announced the interception of a missile from Iran.
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NATO Intercepts Second Iranian Missile Entering Turkey’s Airspace, Defense Ministry Says
It was the second time in six days that Turkey announced the interception of a missile from Iran.

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.

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Maryam Turkey:
🎵 This Place
#MaryamTurkey
https://maryamturkey.bandcamp.com/track/this-place
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lk1CT7tdr1dBw2Aq6swoG

"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

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…

NATO intercepts Iranian missile heading toward Turkey in first such incident: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/nato-intercepts-iranian-missile-heading.html

Image credit: Google Gemini.
#MAGA #Christmas

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...

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.

#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.

Are you into #metal? Here is my #FridayMetal recommendations. This time from #turkey
- Diktatör by Mekanik
- Ateş Zamanı by Tulpar
- Can Kırıkları by Şebnem Ferah
Enjoy!

“‘For Orbšn in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’
…
US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwi…

“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 …

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.

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.

"COP31 host Türkiye ranked Europe’s worst nation for sustainable development"
#Turkey #Europe #COP31 #Climate

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.

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-…

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

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute a t Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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…

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...

here is a photo from last sunday for #fungiFriday

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…

"Türkiye’s solar capacity surpasses 25 GW"
#Turkey #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Türkiye’s solar capacity surpasses 25 GW
Alparslan Bayraktar, Türkiye's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, says 2026 will be a record year for renewables in the country after total deployed solar reached 25,827 MW by the end of January.

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