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Turkey blocks Grok over offensive responses about President Erdogan and Ataturk; Poland plans to report Grok to the EU for offensive posts about Donald Tusk (Elçin Poyrazlar/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-ban-elon-musk-grok-…

Turkey bans Elon Musk’s Grok over Erdoğan insults
X’s chatbot under fire in Poland, too, over insulting comments targeted at Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Turkey, Bulgaria battle wildfires amid Mediterranean heat wave #Turkey

Turkey, Bulgaria battle wildfires amid Mediterranean heat wave
Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday as a deadly heat wave went into a second week around much of the Mediterranean.

Turkey tail? I'm guessing? I don't normally see them with colors this vivid. #fungifriday

I did a 21 mile bike ride today. Along the way I saw a turkey, found a good pair of scissors, discovered Hidden Lake, and stopped to see Mama Rosa at Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa.
#bikeTooter #biking #mke

Turkey battles disastrous wildfires
Temperatures above seasonal norms have been exacerbated by strong winds and dry conditions, resulting in dozens of wildfires across the country.
A new fire broke out on Friday close to high-rise apartments in the popular Mediterranean resort city of Antalya in southern Turkey.
Homes were evacuated in the city center on Friday and the outlying district of Aksu as the fire advanced.
At 46.1 degrees Celsius, July temperatures in Antalya ci…

Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters
Turkey is hit by a record high temperature of 50.5 degrees as southeastern Europe reels under a heat wave and battles wildfires.

Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds #Turkey

Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds
Climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus this summer burn much more fiercely, said a new study released Thursday.

"Türkiye deploys 3.1 GW of solar in H1"
#Turkey #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Türkiye deploys 3.1 GW of solar in H1
Türkiye’s cumulative solar capacity surpassed 23 GW in June, according to figures from energy thinktank Ember, exceeding the country’s target for 2025. However, a lack of connection capacity for future projects is threatening to slow deployment rates in the short to medium term.

Dust scattering halo of 4U 1630-47: High resolution X-ray and mm observations constrain source and molecular cloud distances
E. Kalemci (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanc{\i} University, Istanbul, Turkey), M. D\'iaz Trigo (ESO, Garching bei M\"unchen, Germany), E. Oztaban (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanc{\i} University, Istanbul, Turkey), A. A. Abbasi (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanc{\i} University, Istanbul, Turkey), T…

Dust scattering halo of 4U 1630-47: High resolution X-ray and mm observations constrain source and molecular cloud distances
We re-investigated the distance to the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 by analyzing its dust scattering halo (DSH) using high-resolution X-ray (Chandra) and millimeter (APEX) observations. Dust scattering halos form when X-rays from a compact source are scattered by interstellar dust, creating diffuse ring-like structures that can provide clues about the source's distance. Our previous work suggested two possible distances: 4.9 kpc and 11.5 kpc, but uncertainties remained due to low-resoluti…

Ukrainian delegation arrives in Turkey ahead of third round of peace talks with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukrainian-delegation-arrives-in-turkey.html

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years #Turkey

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27% compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week.

That's 122 F.
Turkey wildfires hit fourth largest city as 14 killed in blazes sparked by record 50C heatwave | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-wildfires-map-bursa-heatwave-death-toll-b2797081.html

"I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/mayor-istanbul-jail-ekrem-imamoglu-turkey-democracy

I did a 21 mile bike ride today. Along the way I saw a turkey, found a good pair of scissors, discovered Hidden Lake, and stopped to see Mama Rosa at Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa.
#bikeTooter #biking #mke

Number of wildfires in Turkey, January-July, 2008-2025.
From article in @nrc.nl today.

Since St George was born in Turkey, died in Palestine and never set foot on Britain I find all of his flags going up around the UK a bit strange but am fine with it really. A nice international symbol of unity with all the other countries with him as their patron saint (Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice).
My worry is that in a year there will be really tatty flags everywhere, filling the air with microplastic…

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

"Climate change intensified weather that fuelled deadly wildfires in Türkiye, Greece and Cyprus"
#Turkey #Greece #Cyprus #Climate

Deadly wildfires in southern Europe linked to climate crisis
Researchers found that weather conditions which drove deadly fires in Türkiye, Greece and Cyprus were made more intense by climate change. They expect similar results from their ongoing analysis of blazes in Spain.

Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
Mehmet Erman Erol, Cagatay Edgucan Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25152 http…

Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
This article analyses the trajectories of organised labour in times of neoliberalism in Turkey and Egypt and their current condition under securitised neoliberal-developmentalist regimes post-2013. Neoliberal experience in these countries was marked by continuing authoritarianism, challenging the view that economic liberalisation would lead to political democratisation. One of the most important areas of neoliberal restructuring has been labour markets. In order to achieve this, struggles over …

Weather tracker: heatwave triggers deadly wildfires in Turkey https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/25/weather-tracker-heatwave-deadly-wildfires-turkey

Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa, in northwest Turkey,
spread rapidly, tinting the night sky over the city’s eastern suburbs with a red glow.
Dozens of severe wildfires have hit the country daily since late June,
with the government declaring the two western provinces of Izmir and Bilecik as disaster areas on Friday.
Bursa governor’s office said in a statement Sunday that 1,765 people had been safely evacuated from villages to the northeast …

Flames threaten Turkey's 4th-largest city as southern Europe grapples with wildfires
Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city on Sunday, forcing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes and leaving a firefighter dead.

Interesting findings on the #sustainability backlash, but the choice to include #Turkey as Asia-Pacific and not either #MiddleEast or

A Novel Short-Term Anomaly Prediction for IIoT with Software Defined Twin Network
Bilal Dalgic (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey), Betul Sen (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey), Muge Erel-Ozcevik (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20068

A Novel Short-Term Anomaly Prediction for IIoT with Software Defined Twin Network
Secure monitoring and dynamic control in an IIoT environment are major requirements for current development goals. We believe that dynamic, secure monitoring of the IIoT environment can be achieved through integration with the Software-Defined Network (SDN) and Digital Twin (DT) paradigms. The current literature lacks implementation details for SDN-based DT and time-aware intelligent model training for short-term anomaly detection against IIoT threats. Therefore, we have proposed a novel framew…

Ah. I see the problem here.

Turkey weighs returning S-400s to Russia as Moscow faces air-defense shortfall: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/13/turkey-weighs-returning-ss-to.html

Ultrasound-based detection and malignancy prediction of breast lesions eligible for biopsy: A multi-center clinical-scenario study using nomograms, large language models, and radiologist evaluation
Ali Abbasian Ardakani, Afshin Mohammadi, Taha Yusuf Kuzan, Beyza Nur Kuzan, Hamid Khorshidi, Ashkan Ghorbani, Alisa Mohebbi, Fariborz Faeghi, Sepideh Hatamikia, U Rajendra Acharya

Ultrasound-based detection and malignancy prediction of breast lesions eligible for biopsy: A multi-center clinical-scenario study using nomograms, large language models, and radiologist evaluation
To develop and externally validate integrated ultrasound nomograms combining BIRADS features and quantitative morphometric characteristics, and to compare their performance with expert radiologists and state of the art large language models in biopsy recommendation and malignancy prediction for breast lesions. In this retrospective multicenter, multinational study, 1747 women with pathologically confirmed breast lesions underwent ultrasound across three centers in Iran and Turkey. A total of 10…

on this week’s grateful deadcast, @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i get into the weird & heady lesh suite, “king solomon’s marbles”/“stronger than dirt.” the 2nd idea seems to have been in lesh’s head since ~1962, per this image from one of hank harrison’s infamous books. https://www.

Time to release Abdullah Ocalan!
Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj5v67ly9o

Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

From @… and Jawa Ahmed for @… :

Senior Hamas Official to Trump: We Are Ready to Make a Fair Deal
Trump should reject Netanyahu’s agenda, said Basem Naim, moving instead to end the Gaza genocide and support an independent Palestine: “It is not about Hamas."

just keep consuming. leave the land empty. leave ur storage full. leave ur body as a soul turkey-stuffed with memory of every tiktok vocal stim compilation, every nation ishowspeed set foot in, and every line of adam friedland's g herbo interview. bring still waters to the passion of the cosmos.

Plants are often CO₂ food now.

Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/good-job-games-secures-60m-seri…

Good Job Games secures $60M Series A to build the future of Match-3 gaming
Turkish mobile games dev company Good Job Games has raised a $60 million Series A round, co-led by Menlo Ventures and Anthos Capital, with additional participation by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The round brings the total investment amount to date to $83 million, after a seed round of $23 million just six months ago. Good Job Games aims to build a generational entertainment brand through timeless, socially-driven games. An example is its popular Match Villains, a game designed to be endless…

"Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change"
#Turkey #Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change
Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.

URGENT! Umerov – on the results of negotiations with the Russians in TURKEY #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/urgent-umerov-on-the-results.html

Google admits it failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Louis Vuitton says customers in Turkey, South Korea and UK impacted by data breaches https://therecord.media/louis-vuitton-says-customers-impacted-by-data-breaches

The Ukrainian NEGOTIATING delegation is already in TURKEY! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/the-ukrainian-negotiating-delegation-is.html

Istanbul-based stock and crypto brokerage Midas raised an $80M Series B led by QED Investors, valuing the company, sources say, at nearly $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-22/turkey-s-robinhood-s…

50.5°C in Turkey yesterday!
First time ever above 50°C in the country.
Unprecedented, there's that word again.
Via @… on Bluesky.

"Banks fund $65 million for 100 MW solar project in Turkey"
#Turkey #Banks #SolarPower #Energy

Banks fund $65 million for 100 MW solar project in Turkey
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) have each contributed $32.5 million toward a senior debt financing package for a 100 MW solar project in southern Turkey.

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

"Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years"
#Turkey #Drought #Climate #ClimateChange

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27% compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week.

I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat
Ekrem Imamoğlu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/mayor-istanbul-jail-ekrem-imamoglu-turkey-democracy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations
Marco De Nadai, Andreas Damianou, Mounia Lalmas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09789 htt…

Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations
Existing video recommender systems rely primarily on user-defined metadata or on low-level visual and acoustic signals extracted by specialised encoders. These low-level features describe what appears on the screen but miss deeper semantics such as intent, humour, and world knowledge that make clips resonate with viewers. For example, is a 30-second clip simply a singer on a rooftop, or an ironic parody filmed amid the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey? Such distinctions are critical to pers…

Ukraine contacts 'several countries' that could host negotiations with Russia, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/ukraine-contacts-several-countries-that.html

A Turkish court delayed a decision on Monday whether to
oust the main opposition leader and annul his party's 2023 congress over alleged irregularities,
in a case that has already deepened the country's political crisis.
The judge in Ankara adjourned the case concerning the Republican People's Party (CHP) and its chairman, Ozgur Ozel, until October 24.

Turkey court delays ruling on opposition leader amid political crisis
A Turkish court delayed a decision on Monday whether to oust the main opposition leader and annul his party's 2023 congress over alleged irregularities, in a...

The last time a Russian jet entered the sovereign airspace of a NATO country this is what happened... this was a 17 second violation (after multiple warnings by Turkish forces to the Russian jet to change course)
#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #NATO #Russia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/estonia-airspace-russia-1.7638294

Trump has said he is ready to impose sanctions on Moscow,
-- but on the condition that all Nato allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and other implement their own sanctions.
He also suggested members of the transatlantic alliance consider imposing tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum as a way to help end the war.
Turkey, a Nato member, is the third largest buyer of Russia’s oil products, after China and India, according …

Erdogan, Putin discuss resuming Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/erdogan-putin-discuss-resuming-ukrainerussia.html

Wildfires kill at least 3 and displace thousands across southern Europe #Europe

Wildfires kill at least 3 and displace thousands across southern Europe
Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday with a round-the-clock battle to protect the perimeter of Greece's third-largest city and at least three deaths reported in Spain, Turkey and Albania.