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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…

Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting (Andrew Wilks/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-social-medi…

Turkish lawmakers pass bill to restrict social media for children under 15
State-run media says Turkish lawmakers have passed a bill that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15. The legislation is the latest in a global trend to protect young people from dangerous online activity. Its passage late Wednesday comes a week after a 14-year-old boy killed nine students and a teacher at a middle school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey. Police are investigating the online activity of the perpetrator in a bid to uncover his motivation for…

Small tree stem with Turkey Tail Fungus
#photo #photography #forest #forestfriday

America’s spending on the war in Iran will far outlast active combat.
The U.S. government has already made contracts and other commitments to repair damaged bases, field counter-drone platforms, feed and shelter thousands of troops and replenish munitions.
Even if President Trump signs a deal ending the war tomorrow, we will harden bases in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
by reinforcing aircraft shelters, building blast walls arou…

Opinion | We Will Be Paying for the Iran War for a Very Long Time
The Iran conflict resembles others the United States has been involved in recently: easy to start and hard to end.

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey (The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/metro/rumeysa-ozturk-returns-turkey/?s_campaign=8315:varf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p71#a260417p71

Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/

Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that

“‘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…

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!

I’m starting a partial trial. Muting a bunch of accounts and hashtags here for a month. Probably gonna just not log into bsky. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
Idea came up in therapy today for maybe interrupting some of my MH issues… "Cold Turkey" on my addiction to Knowing Things. Stop watching and listening to any news. Stop reading Social Media. Grumble. I wish I hadn't said it, or said that information was like my heroin.

now posted: complete transcripts for season 12 of the good ol' grateful deadcast, our extended hang at the 1975 "blues for allah" sessions, plus our episode with engineer dan healy. https://www.dead.net/deadcast-index

"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.

Just finished "Armaveni" by Nadine Takvorian. A fascinating graphic novel about the author's family history through the Armenian genocide in Turkey, and the echoes of that story into her life in America and a visit to both Armenia and family in Turkey, where prejudice and denial linger on.
Fascinating to read right now both in light of American denial of our own genocidal history that's rarely questioned, and the ongoing modern genocides in places like Ethiopia and Gaza.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

At least 16 wounded in Turkey high school shooting; gunman dead (Associated Press)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turkey-high-school-shooting-gunman-dead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p42#a260414p42

Syria saw an opportunity when the war with Iran cut off access to one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
With multiple Mediterranean ports and borders with Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, the country offers a desperately needed alternative to the blocked Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway that, before the war, was used to transport a hefty share of the global oil supply.
Iraq and Gulf states including the United Arab Emirates have already begun to transport oil an…

Blocked Strait of Hormuz Leads to New Opportunities for Syria
The latest war in the Middle East has created new economic opportunities for Syria thanks to its geography.

Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk. Your perseverence is impressive.
Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-trump-admini…

Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk. Your perseverence is impressive.
Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-trump-admini…

‘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

how are you gonna be 380 years old and not found time to become a doctor yet. smh

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.
https://www.

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.

here is a photo from last sunday for #fungiFriday

DW: Why Europe can’t ignore Cyprus anymore | Mapped Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFYeBdJnAok
Cyprus has been divided for over 50 years, setting NATO member Turkey against the Republic of Cyprus, an EU member state. As Europe redraws its security order, the Cyprus problem is back …

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

Tom Barrack Has His Own Mideast Policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tom-barrack-turkey-iran-israel-hezbollah-middle-east-fd19addd?st=Nw3kBN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p8#a260422p8

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

De geschiedenis van 'Yankee, go home'
'Yankee, Go Home'! What Lies Beneath The Growing Anti-American Sentiments In Turkey?
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/yankee-go-home-rallying-cry-turkiyes/ (sep 2024)
Nooit geweten dat de basis er van in het Berlijn van Oost-Duitland lag.

Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M (Tugce Ozsoy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11/turke…

we also talked to an old lady who's important to the church but just hadn't really went over to us yet. she grew up in philly some typa african american puerto rican, moved to puerto rico eventually, then came back later. her whole thing was that american churches are slowly dying, she didn't know true worship till puerto rico, and she wanted to get everybody to perform on stage sometimes, including us, believing god would bring any missing music ability and didnt want professional sound anyway. she sung all this information to us rather than speaking it, which was ofc delightful. she bonded with mom over homeschooling as she had to do that to teach her kids both english and spanish in puerto rico.
as we left she suddenly pointed at me and told my mom "make this one hug me, he's the one of you i always watch move around. i don't know, there's just something about him!" so i hugged her, and then as we went home, my family revived an old joke. when i was a kid, there were quite a few times when random strangers in turkey would come up and hand me money, sometimes crossing streets and chasing us down to do so, so my family joked about using me as a missions org mascot, raising tons of money via most randos finding me a particularly cute kid (or being drawn to intangible aura, as the joke seemingly shifted to in lieu of me not being a cute little kid anymore)

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