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

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

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.

Hoe futiel het ook lijkt, teken evenals ik toch maar, net als @… . Dat maakt duidelijk dat we met velen zijn.
http://www.stopreturnfascism.org

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.

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."

“Are you not entertained?”

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.

To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura
bitters. Shake.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, recipe for turkey cocktail.

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.

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

Rescuers evacuate 50,000 as Turkey battles wildfires #Turkey

Rescuers evacuate 50,000 as Turkey battles wildfires
Rescuers in Turkey have evacuated more than 50,000 people, mostly from the western province of Izmir, as firefighters battled a string of wildfires, the AFAD disaster agency said Monday.

Just playing a bit of Dwarf Fortress in a biome where it rains poisonous mucus, so the surface is kind of tricky.
All my grazing animals died before I could reach a cavern layer (my incompetence).
Traders came but brought no food.
The only thing my dwarves have eaten for 2 years is turkey eggs.
Hopefully I can sort this out before they are all clad head to toe only in turkey leather.
Got some pigs but they take ages to grow to adulthood.
Spirits are amazing…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/kurdish-militant-group-agrees-to-swap-guns-for-ballots-and-end-40-year-insurgency-…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey
Imprisoned founder of the group, Abdullah Öcalan, released a statement from prison calling on the group to convene a conference and dissolve.

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

Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Today's bike ride was 8 miles but whatever the crazy thing is that I saw a guy get chased off the Menomonee River Parkway by a turkey! It chased him into the road, and he was running down the middle of the road and a car had to stop!
#bikeTooter #turkey

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

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.

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…

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

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

Humming birds are big this year!

“In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a well-preserved mosaic featuring a skeleton savoring a loaf of bread and a pitcher of wine, surrounded by the Greek words ‘Be cheerful and live your life.’” Via https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/archae

"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.

Auch nicht schlecht, ich war damals™ ja noch nur 4 Jahre alt, aber
john lennon cold turkey.mpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuYiN0eIydk&t=143

Scoop: Trump's backchannel to Iran failed after supreme leader went dark (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/21/trump-iran-turkey-negotiations-israel-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p32#a250621p32

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.

Again, learn from Turkey, because Trump sure is. Erdoğan did the same thing, cleaning out the ranks… and he’s managed to cling onto power for decades because of it. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/114797134888601938

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.

Russia's Rosatom seeks to sell 49% stake in Turkey's first nuclear plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russias-rosatom-seeks-to-sell.html

Ah. I see the problem here.

The Determinants of Net Interest Margin in the Turkish Banking Sector: Does Bank Ownership Matter? Central Bank Digital Currencies
Fatih Kansoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04384

The Determinants of Net Interest Margin in the Turkish Banking Sector: Does Bank Ownership Matter? Central Bank Digital Currencies
This research presented an empirical investigation of the determinants of the net interest margin in Turkish Banking sector with a particular emphasis on the bank ownership structure. This study employed a unique bank-level dataset covering Turkey`s commercial banking sector for the 2001-2012. Our main results are as follows. Operation diversity, credit risk and operating costs are important determinants of margin in Turkey. More efficient banks exhibit lower margin and also price stability con…

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.

Ah, our democratic ally, Erdoğan, loved (and generously compensated) by the EU for keeping the Brown people away from our borders.
EU: we’re leading the world with our single market for hypocrisy.
CC @… …

FRANCE 24 English [🤖] (@france24_en@amicale.net)
Attaché : 1 image Turkey detains three more mayors in latest opposition arrests ➡️ https://go.france24.com/snI

People, Iran can't close the strait of #Hormuz. It doesn't belong to them. It's not like Turkey's Bosphorus: there's Oman on the other side. They can close their part of it but that's it, and most sea traffic goes through Omani waters anyway.
And if they target ships sailing in foreign waters they risk starting a full war with all the other Gulf states, some of which…

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

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…

"China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records"
#China #SolarPower #WindTurbines

China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records
China installed enough solar and wind power between January and May to match the total electricity use of countries like Indonesia or Turkey, even as its clean energy industry faces deep financial strain.Amy Hawkins reports for The Guardian.In short:China installed 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 giga...

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

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

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

Currents Beneath Stability: A Stochastic Framework for Exchange Rate Instability Using Kramers Moyal Expansion
Yazdan Babazadeh Maghsoodlo, Amin Safaeesirat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01989

Currents Beneath Stability: A Stochastic Framework for Exchange Rate Instability Using Kramers Moyal Expansion
Understanding the stochastic behavior of currency exchange rates is critical for assessing financial stability and anticipating market transitions. In this study, we investigate the empirical dynamics of the USD exchange rate in three economies, including Iran, Turkey, and Sri Lanka, through the lens of the Kramers-Moyal expansion and Fokker-Planck formalism. Using log-return data, we confirm the Markovian nature of the exchange rate fluctuations, enabling us to model the system with a second-o…

Export proceeds repatriation policies: A shield against exchange rate volatility in emerging markets?
Sondang Marsinta Uli Panggabean, Mahjus Ekananda, Beta Yulianita Gitaharie, Leslie Djuranovik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09168

Export proceeds repatriation policies: A shield against exchange rate volatility in emerging markets?
We examine the impact of mandatory export proceeds repatriation on exchange rate stability in three emerging markets, Iran, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, using the Generalized Synthetic Control framework. By modeling exchange rate stochastic volatility as our outcome of interest and controlling for interest rate differentials, exchange rate regime shifts, and inflation rate gaps, we address both unobserved time-varying confounders and heterogeneous treatment effects. Our estimates reveal no statistica…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band:
🎵 Cold Turkey
#JohnLennon #PlasticOnoBand
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZRphmQRgSemCv6bzK7895

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

"Türkiye installed around 2.8 GW of solar in first five months of 2025"
#Turkey #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Türkiye installed around 2.8 GW of solar in first five months of 2025
A strong start to solar installations in 2025 helped the country's cumulative solar capacity surpass 22.6 GW by the end of May.