Turkey

[ursus arctos]

[URL]https://twitter.com/marklowen/status/1115369722487431175?s=21[/URL]

[Diable Rouge]

Excellent article on the current travails of Ademspor - better known as Diyarbakirspor.

[ursus arctos]

[URL="https://twitter.com/europeelects/status/1142831199624339456?s=21"]https://twitter.com/europeelects/status/1142831199624339456[/URL]

[DCI Harry Batt]

And the AKP candidate has conceded, which is also good news.

[Nefertiti2]

thread live tweeting İmamoğlu's victory speech

[URL]https://twitter.com/canokar/status/1142834052480872448[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/aylajean/status/1142840594114469888?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/turkishminutetm/status/1142852338446675968?s=21[/URL]

[ad hoc]

Brilliant news. I've been in both İstanbul and Ankara this week and it really feels like the tide has turned. A long way to go but it's a real start

[Antepli Ejderha]

A big defeat this for Erdoğan, but let's see what happens next as he's going to respond in some way. My call would be to do something to stir up nationalistic sentiments but probably not in Syria. Erdoğan is a very proud man and this is really going to hurt him.

[Ginger Yellow]

Erdoğan has sacked the central bank governor, with predictable results for the lira this morning, though it seems to have recovered a little since the initial collapse.

[Ginger Yellow]

Oh and apparently the new guy's masters thesis was plagiarised.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Oh and apparently the new guy's masters thesis was plagiarised.

Thanks for the link which I've shared with friends in Turkey, it's not news there yet apparently but nobody is surprised.

I've been asked to edit a few MA dissertations and plagiarism can be an issue in some universities. It's often a system of nepotism and cronyism that's perpetuated by things like this. The supervisor of his thesis and the minister of finance, who happens to be the son in law of Erdoğan, is the same person.

[Lang Spoon]

Sounds like Italy.

[ursus arctos]

The plagiarism is much more rampant in Germany.

[URL="https://twitter.com/ivanoransky/status/697789950482223104?s=21"]https://twitter.com/ivanoransky/status/697789950482223104[/URL]

[Antepli Ejderha]

Apparently Erdoğan has a fake degree, without that he couldn't be PM.

[Gangster Octopus]

To be PM you have to have a fake degree?

[Satchmo Distel]

I was in Kadikoy two days ago and they had banners up celebrating the fact that 82.4% of the district voted against Erdogan. Only Besiktas was higher

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/23-hazi...ecim-sonuclari

[ad hoc]

I like Kadikoy a lot. I was there in December.

As a Kadikoy related aside, I recommend this interview with Gaye Su Akyol by Robin Denselow in the Guardian last weekend https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...pop-powerhouse

Here's my favourite of her songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtSJVtkwho a cover of a Barış Manço song - and there is a Barış Manço museum in Kadikoy

[Benjm]

Gaye Su Akyol is brilliant. I've got tickets to see her at the Jazz Café in November. It's the first stand alone (i.e. non-festival) show that she's played in the UK so really looking forward to it.

[Satchmo Distel]

Istanbul's new airport is a total disaster. Avoid for connections unless you have no choice. It seems the experienced staff from the old airport have been replaced by poorly trained new entrants. The signage to the terminals is awful and the walk from, say, A to F can be 20 minutes even for a young fit person. If you have to pay for excess luggage nobody knows whom you should pay or how; you get shunted between different teams whose staff don't want to help.

It is deeply unpopular in Istanbul due to being too far from the city and a general feeling that it was built on corruption and bribes.

Two football related issues: Besiktas' stadium looks from the tour bus as if the roof covers a lot of the ground, so lack of sunlight would perhaps be an issue. Erdogan has a stadium named after him

https://www.stadiumguide.com/recep-t...erdogan-stadi/

[Satchmo Distel]

Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey since 2017. I realized when I was there how much I rely on it for daily trivia but also when touring a city and looking up landmarks.

I imagine it is an unpopular ban.

[ursus arctos]

As distressing as it is predictable

[URL="https://twitter.com/trtworldnow/status/1158018517452709888?s=21"]https://twitter.com/trtworldnow/status/1158018517452709888[/URL]

[Antepli Ejderha]

They must have reached an agreement with Russia and Iran and therefore should only have set objectives. However that's no consolation for the thousands on the ground who'll suffer when this invasion takes place.

[Ginger Yellow]

This is pretty distressing and predictable too, though I'm not clear what exactly the scope of "online content providers" is — are we just talking video/audio, or is it all publishers/hosting sites? Either way, expect even more censorship.

[ursus arctos]

I imagine that it will eventually mean whatever they want it to, though I would expect the initial focus to be video.

The descent to totalitarianism continues apace.