Vanessa H. Larson @vanessahlarson Twitter profile

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Vanessa H. Larson

1 year

For @washingtonpost I reviewed 2 new books on the Ottoman Empire: @nords41 's in-depth account of its final years, “The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire,” and @dianadarke 's gorgeous cultural history “The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy”:

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

No one in Turkish politics or government ever actually resigns (unless there's a sex tape)

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@jamesinturkey

1 year

Wow. No resignation.

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Vanessa H. Larson

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3 years

"Enjoy -- I'm vaccinated!" Feels almost like a colonial mindset to have this tourism ad campaign for Turkey as locals are on lockdown and less than 13% of country is vaccinated

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3 years

Turkey in a nutshell 😺

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Of course this is in 🇹🇷 where a whole crowd of people helps rescue a stranded puppy 🐕

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

This being Turkey, there is always a street dog (or cat) on the scene, even in a quarantine situation

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Names of the 6 people killed in #İstiklal bombing have been released and are all Turkish. Framing Beyoğlu only as a tourist center is problematic

İstiklal'deki bombalı saldırıda hayatını kaybeden 6 kişinin kimlikleri açıklandı

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New York Times World

@nytimesworld

2 years

Of the tens of millions of tourists from around the world who visit Turkey each year, many spend time in the area where Sunday’s bombing took place.

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

1 year

This is atrocious and embarrassing for CHP

Emily Wither

@ewither

1 year

These campaign posters dot highways across Istanbul. It reads ‘Syrians will go’ alongside opposition candidate Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu. A Syrian, living here 7yrs, told me, “my children can read those signs it’s impossible for me to hide them.” She says her son is bullied at school.

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Turkey has its own "I can't breathe" moment after these insane photos of police grabbing protesters by the neck #NefesAlam ıyorum

Bulent KILIC

@Kilicbil

3 years

Turkish police officers try to detain a student as a woman pulls him away during a demonstration in support of Bogazici University students on April 1, 2021, at Kadikoy in Istanbul. AFP/Bulent Kilic #Bo ğaziciDireniyor #bo ğazici #bo ğazici

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Turkey's new tourism video has already been deleted, but not before a lot of people on social media got angry:

1 Kızılay çadırı 22.439 lira/1193,5$ - NOT MY

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

"Probably"? Definitely 😀

Soner Cagaptay

@SonerCagaptay

3 years

Probably the most beautiful city in the world

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

67 years today since the anti-Greek pograms in Istanbul of Sept. 6-7 1955, which Turkey has never fully come to terms with

İlayda Çağla Koçoğlu

@CaglaKocoglu

2 years

İstanbul Rumlarına ve diğer azınlık gruplarına karşı yapılan saldırıların üstünden 55 yıl geçti… Yüzleşmedikçe beraberimizde taşımaya devam edeceğiz.

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

In Turkey, instead of a snowman you get a Yeni Rakı bottle!

Özgür Aybaş

@AybasOzgur

2 years

Emek var vallahi emek var

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Shocking scenes of police blockade today of Istanbul's #BogaziciUniversity , where students have been leading peaceful protests for weeks against govt-chosen rector

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

The moment when Turkey exports "Sandıkları terk etmeyin" to the U.S. 😆 #Election2020

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu @kilicdarogluk arriving at @washingtonpost this morning during his Washington trip

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

Bosphorus University is known for its extremely high level of English instruction -- to the point that when I met English-speaking Turks, I can often guess if they attended Boğaziçi. That makes newly appointed rector #MelihBulu 's poor English all the more embarrassing...

Ankaralı Jan

@06JAnk

3 years

A writing sample from Erdoğan's political appointee to run Boğaziçi, Turkey's equivalent of Harvard (an institution that teaches in English) via @historicalgay

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Why was Turkey's tourism video offensive? Nicely summed up by @canokar

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Turks waiting in line for subsidized bread, amid plummeting lira and high inflation

fırat

@firatfstk

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kartal'da halk ekmek kuyruğu

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

1 year

Serious question: How could there be "10 million Syrians" in 🇹🇷? 🇹🇷 has taken *by far* the most Syrian refugees, which is admirable. But Syria's prewar population was only 22M; it's now estimated at 16-18M. Other countries have taken Syrians too. Turkey simpy can't be hosting 10M

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

10 months

I love how almost all Turkish color adjectives have an intensive form: * bembeyaz - snow white * kıpkırmızı - red as blood/a rose * sapsarı * yemyeşil - forest green * masmavi - true blue * mosmor - deep purple * pespembe * simsiyah - black as night * kapkara - pitch black

Orel Beilinson

@BeilinsonOrel

10 months

One reason everyone should learn Turkish is so that we can use adjectives like yeşil 'green' -> yemyeşil 'completely green, totally green' yalnız 'alone' -> yapayalnız 'completely alone' temiz 'clean' -> tertemiz 'completely clean, spotless' These adjectives are so fun to form.

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

HDP’s MP @gergerliogluof forcibly taken from Turkey's parliament this morning, reportedly detained by police after he went to bathroom for ablutions. #ÖmerFarukGergerlioğlu was stripped of his seat Wednesday on "terrorism charges but he had refused to leave parliament

Kemal Göktaş

@kemalgoktas

3 years

Gergerlioğlu Meclis'te abdest almaya çıktığı sırada lavaboda gözaltına alındı. Gergerlioğlu alınırken tarihe geçecek bu görüntü ortaya çıktı

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Cats actually run Turkey, example 473 😹

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Nothing is ever better than a Turkish breakfast

Cloé Kerhoas Özmen

@CloeKerhoas

3 years

Ok i'm French and i love croissant 🥐 and baguette 🥖 but honestly there is nothing better than a Turkish breakfast (Kahvaltı) ❤ #istanbul #turkey #kahvalt ı (first photo "Yiğit kahvalti" second photo: "Privato" restaurant)

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

#Orhan İnandı is "the latest victim of a pattern of cases in which Turkey’s intelligence services have been involved in unlawfully transferring people to Turkey from countries around the world," @hrw says

Turkey/Kyrgyzstan: Rendition of Turkish-Kyrgyz Educator

Turkish and Kyrgyz authorities abducted, forcibly disappeared, and extrajudicially transferred a dual Turkish-Kyrgyz national living in Bishkek to Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today. The actions...

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

Amazing -- an Ottoman vaccination certificate from early 1900s

bahtiyar sahaf

@bahtiyarim

3 years

Siz de aşı belgenizi alıp saklarsanız yüz yıl sonrası için bir pandemi hatırası bırakmış olursunuz. (Fotoğrafta 1900 başlarında İstanbul'da verilmiş bir aşı vesikası görüyorsunuz.)

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Thousands of years of Turkey's history and culture, lost because of a dam #Hasankeyf

Nurcan Baysal

@baysal_nurcan

3 years

Hasankeyf 2010 2021

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

2 years

So sad: #İstiklal bombing apparently killed three pairs of family members: - a mother and daughter - a father and daughter - a married couple The oldest was 40, per @t24comtr

Yasin Kobulan

@yasinkobulan

2 years

İstiklal Caddesi'ndeki patlamada hayatını kaybddenlerin isimleri bellü oldu: Arzu Özsoy, kızı Yağmur Uçar, Yusuf Meydan, kızı Ecrin Meydan, Adem Topkara ile eşi Mukaddes Elif Topkara

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Vanessa H. Larson

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4 years

Bazı insanlar maalesef yanlış anlamış. Türkiye'nin sokak hayvanlarına hiç karşı değilim, sadece bu klip komiğime gitti... :)

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

Turkey resumes imports of plastic waste from Europe: "In the five years leading up to the ban, Turkey received more garbage from Europe than any other country"

Turkey Resumes Trade That Made It Europe’s Top Trash Destination

Turkey is reversing a short-lived ban on imports of some plastic waste, prompting environmental groups to warn of the threat posed to farmlands, air and water resources in what was Europe’s top...

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

2 months

"First we were horny" 🤦‍♀️ Google translate for Turkish apparently still has a long ways to go ...

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

@BrammerAyse

2 months

Ah Google translate ah, daha yiyeceğin 40 fırın ekmek, öğrenmek zorunda olduğun 40 bin deyiş var :))

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

4 years

I have great affection for Turkey's street animals, and my tweets about them are meant to be funny, not a criticism. Should have put a smiley 😀

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2 years

Turkey lost at U.S. Supreme Court -- SCOTUS rejected Turkey’s bid to stop lawsuits over violent brawl outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in D.C. that left protesters injured

Supreme Court rejects Turkey's bid to stop US brawl lawsuits

The Supreme Court has rejected Turkey’s bid to shut down lawsuits in U.S. courts stemming from a brawl outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington that left anti-government protesters...

apnews.com

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

In Turkey, reports of women unable to buy menstrual products amid strict pandemic lockdown and confusion about what counts as "essential" products #TamKapanma

nesibe (🇹🇷,🕊️)

@nesibekiris

3 years

Eril akıllı devlet yönetimi kadınların ve trans bireylerin temel ihtiyaçlarını görmezden geliyor. Marketlerde menstrüal hijyen ürünlerinin satımı da yasakmış. -geçen bu fotoğrafı paylaştığımda doğru olmayabilir denmişti, bugün teyit edildi.-

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

1 year

Less than 36 hours till Turkish election, Twitter issues a vague statement saying it has restricted some content in Turkey

Global Government Affairs

@GlobalAffairs

1 year

In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today.

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Anyone taking bets on when (if) the Turkish lira will reach 10 to the $?

ibrahim Haskoloğlu

@haskologlu

3 years

Dolar/TL yeni rekorunu kırdı. 1 ABD Doları = 9.30 Türk Lirası

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

Dark day as Turkey withdraws from @coe #IstanbulConvention against gender-based violence that was named after the Turkish city where it was adopted 10 years ago -- and amid rising violence against women in Turkey #istanbulsozlesmesi

Deniz Yüksel

@denizyuksel130

3 years

After a long campaign of misogyny and anti-LGBTI hate, #Turkey withdraws from #IstanbulConvention on combating violence against women by midnight presidential decree. Meanwhile, 77 women were killed in the first 78 days of this year. The government is complicit in their deaths.

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2 years

Lead editorial on Turkey in today's print @washingtonpost , on Erdoğan's "arbitrary and capricious rule": "His country could be headed for irreversible political and economic damage."

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

@DrTalAbdulrazaq @gonultol @MiddleEastInst It was an offensive, inflammatory statement targeting Alevis and a specific politician. I don't think The Washington Post, where I work and where you have published op-eds, would appreciate this either.

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

8 months

The 14-word (!) English translation barely even captures this single Turkish word, because the -miş is more like "apparently" or "it was reported to me that ... "

Soner Cagaptay

@SonerCagaptay

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How suffixes work in the Turkish language

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

As @SultanAlQassemi likes to tell his Middle Eastern art students, it's a little-known fact that the largest collection of Western art outside the West is in #Iran ⬇️

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

@NicholasDanfort Impressive. Most of us Americans in Turkey just *called* a CIA agent -- but you got a secret wife out of it too.

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Sleeping Turkish cat working security at Alibeyköy Metro station

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

@Paul_Osterlund

2 years

Alibeyköy metro güvenlik görevlisi iş başında 🐈‍⬛

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

Turkey's "supermarket helper" cats are the best 😺

Dr. Işıl Acehan

@IsilAcehan

1 year

Çok rahat, çok profesyonel! Turşuya bakıyor bir de "acaba bu bana mı" diye 😄

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

8 months

Turkey is an incredible outlier among OECD economies

Informal Economy

@EconomyInformal

8 months

Food Inflation (%) Türkiye🇹🇷: 72.9 Hungary🇭🇺: 17.9 UK🇬🇧: 13.6 NZ🇳🇿: 13.6 Poland🇵🇱: 12.7 Colombia🇨🇴: 12.4 France🇫🇷: 11.6 Greece🇬🇷: 10.7 Spain🇪🇸: 10.5 Italy🇮🇹: 9.9 Chile🇨🇱: 9.2 Ireland🇮🇪: 8.2 Canada🇨🇦: 6.9 Mexico🇲🇽: 6.8 Korea🇰🇷: 4.9 Switzerland🇨🇭: 4.1 USA🇺🇸: 2.9 CR🇨🇷: -2.3 @OECD

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Just realized that money laundering in Turkish is "kara para aklama," or literally "whitening black money," and I love how stark that is

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

The mosque at Istanbul's Esenler bus station (what were they thinking??)

Mimari Facialar

@mimarifacialar

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Esenler otogar camii

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2 years

Ukrainian singer, social activist and former MP @s_vakarchuk is performing for troops in Donbas to rouse spirits in the war, @KunkleFredrick reports, with poignant video of his haunting song for Mariupol

Ukrainian rock star performs for troops as music lifts wartime spirits

Sviatoslav "Slava" Vakarchuk performs along heavily bombarded front lines to boost soldiers' morale.

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@vanessahlarson

2 months

Incredible visual of the Turkish election as Istanbul AKP candidate Murat Kurum's image is replaced with Atatürk's

Nasuh Bektaş

@nasuhbektas

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Ne kadar anlamlı olmuş …

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

Thrilled to get my first @pfizer shot and extremely grateful to Turkish-German scientists Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci for developing it #vaccinated

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Moving photo of firefighters exhausted from battling Turkey's fires 💙 #turkiyeyaniyor

Antalya Hakkinda

@AntalyaHakkinda

3 years

Sizlere çok şey borçluyuz. #T ürkiyeYaniyor

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“There is nowhere to go, only Odessa... My wife died. I’m alone now” — heartbreaking, sensitive story from @ikhurshudyan on the many elderly people unable to leave Odessa amid war in #Ukraine

To evacuate or not? In Odessa, some older residents cannot flee war.

The city is often called “Odessa Mama” — a matriarch who will protect them.

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

2 years

Small free-speech victory in Turkey: A Diyarbakır court affirmed "that the usage of 'Armenian Genocide' and 'Kurdistan' expressions does not constitute a crime"

Turkish court acquits Diyarbakır Bar Association executives over Armenian Genocide statements

A Turkish court has acquitted the former and current executives of Diyarbakır Bar Association who stood trial for commemorating the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Istanbul is basically just a cat playground humans happen to live in

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

I'll never forget assassination of Armenian journalist #HrantDink . After having spent time in Turkey as a student, I moved to Istanbul for a job on Jan. 20, 2007 -- one day after he was killed. I saw his 100,000-strong funeral procession with chants of "We are all Armenians"

Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן

@Istanbultelaviv

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Tomorrow marks the 2007 assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. The bullet pierced not only the man who believed he could change but thousands of us who believed in a different Turkey-a different world. His murder transformed us. The pain remains.

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

"I saw it on Twitter, I couldn't believe it. I went myself and it's true: The sale of any kind of menstrual pads is banned at corner stores" in Turkey #marketgenelgesi

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

These Erdoğan propaganda trucks roaming around NYC really aren't helping Turkey's image ...

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Good news that Canadian mining company Alamos is leaving Turkey, but it leaves behind a trail of environmental destruction in #Kazda ğları, where 200,000 trees were cut down

Duvar English

@DuvarEnglish

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After cutting down nearly 200,000 trees in Turkey’s Kaz Mountains, Canadian mining company Alamos Gold is leaving the country as its contract was not renewed.

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Some branches of chain supermarkets in Turkey have arbitrarily stopped selling menstrual products during lockdown, according to @kadinkolektifi , sparking hashtags # #PedYasaklanamaz ("pads can't be banned") and #Pedtemelihtiya çtır ("pads are a basic need")

Üniversiteli Feminist Kolektif

@feministkolektf

3 years

Migros ve a101'in bazı şubeleri genelgede böyle bir şey olmadığı halde keyfi olarak ped satışı yapmıyor. Bunu kabul etmiyoruz bedenlerimize hâkimiyet kurmalarına izin vermeyeceğiz! #Pedtemelihtiya çtır ücretsiz şekilde her regli olan bireye ulaştırılması gerekir! #PedYasaklanamaz

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@vanessahlarson

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Amazing shot of Istanbul, from an angle you don't typically see

Ferdi Seymen

@Ferdiseymenn

3 years

Ah İstanbul!

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@vanessahlarson

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Turkish opposition lawmaker @MTanal jokingly asks if U.S. needs help counting #Election2020 ballots -- scene here of him guarding ballots before Istanbul municipal election recount in April 2019

Turkey’s opposition sleeping beside ballots to safeguard democracy | | Ahval

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Av.Mahmut TANAL

@MTanal

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Geleyim mi? Shall I come? @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden #ABDninSe çimi #Elections2020

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Turkey's soft power in Africa: This became very apparent about 15 years ago when suddenly Turkish Airlines was flying not just to N'Djamena, say, but also to Chad's 2nd- and 3rd-largest cities

EU Institute for Security Studies

@EU_ISS

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✈️ Turkish Airlines: soft power on wings? National airlines can be instruments of diplomacy. Destinations served by @TurkishAirlines reflect #Turkiye 's expanding global influence. 🇹🇷 More on Ankara’s strategy:

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@byzantinologue Cats being welcomed in restaurants are practically their own category of cats in Turkey :)

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@vanessahlarson

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Am eating dinner in an upscale restaurant in #Cappadocia when a heavily pregnant cat strolls through dining room, people pet her. #Turkey

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A major breakthrough -- Turkey 🇹🇷 opens a land border crossing with Armenia that has been closed for 30 years, to allow in humanitarian aid trucks from Armenia 🇦🇲

Garo Paylan - Կարօ Փայլան

@GaroPaylan

1 year

Otuz yıldır kapalı olan Ermenistan Türkiye kapısı insani yardım için açıldı. Dayanışmamızın daim olması dileğiyle… 🇦🇲 🇹🇷

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2 years

So not only is Turkey now Türkiye, but the Aegean next to Turkey is now the "TurkAegean"? #helloT ürkiye In this 3-page travel ad for Turkey in @TravelLeisure magazine

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Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

"[Turkey's] 200 lira bill was released in 2009. When it went into circulation, it was worth $131. Now it's worth $22."

𝕩 Raporlar

@raporlar

3 years

200 TL'lik banknot 2009 yılında piyasaya sürüldü. Tedavüle girdiğinde değeri 131 Dolar Şu saat itibariyle ise değeri 22 Dolar

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Incredible map of Turkey

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600

4 years

Topographic 3D rendered view of Turkey shows the important role that mountains play in the local geography. Source:

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@vanessahlarson

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Mücella Yapıcı is one of 7 people sentenced to 18 years in prison in politically motivated #GeziTrial -- along with #OsmanKavala , sentenced to life in prison on absurd charges of attempting to overthrow Turkey's govt

Ece Temelkuran

@ETemelkuran

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Know her name: Mücella Yapıcı. An architect who lives in a rented apartment in her 70s. Today she is charged with 18 years for defending the #GeziPark in 2013 against illegal construction. After the court decision she only said one sentence: “I don’t give a damn!” #GeziTrial

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@grescoe Cats in fact run Istanbul

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Istanbul is basically just a cat playground humans happen to live in

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Terrible news of 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Southeast Turkey, near #Gaziantep . Similar-magnitude 1999 earthquake in western Turkey killed 17,000+. Çok geçmiş olsun, Türkiye #deprem

USGS Earthquakes

@USGS_Quakes

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Damaging M7.8 EQ hit southern Turkey near the Syrian border ~4am local time. PAGER is red for this event; extensive damage is probable. Our hearts go out to those affected. See @Kandilli_info for local info.

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3 years

This photo of food trash left in the Hagia Sophia is an embarrassment

Çirkin İstanbul

@CirkinIstanbul

3 years

Ayasofya çöplük değildir. Diyanet, mabedimizi layıkıyla koruyamayacaksa Ayasofya Kültür Bakanlığı'na geri verilsin.

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4 years

Why is learning #Turkish challenging for English speakers -- and Turkish-English simultaneous #interpreting an almost superhuman feat? The languages have opposite syntax, as diagram here perfectly shows. H/t @PaulTLevin

TranslationTalk

@translationtalk

4 years

The next one is another favorite of mine as an interpreter w/ Turkish in their language combination: simultaneous between languages w/ inverse structure. I'd like to share w/ you 3 graphs that show a sentence translated from French, German & Turkish into English:

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#Kosovo , under pressure from #Turkey , has arrested and extradited 6 Turks over #Gulen connections, reportedly handing them over directly to Turkish intelligence agency MIT:

Six Turks arrested in Kosovo over Gulen links extradited to Turkey - Anadolu

Six Turkish nationals arrested in Kosovo over links to schools financed by the Fethullah Gulen movement that Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup have been extradited to Turkey, Turkish state-run...

www.reuters.com

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Galiba damarına basmışım de Türkiye'de haberlerinde çıktım.😀 Fakat sayın @t24comtr meslektaşlarım, bu yazıda iki N kullanarak ismimi yanlış yazmışsınız. Düzeltmenizi rica edebilir miyim? 🙏

T24

@t24comtr

3 years

The Washington Post editöründen 'Keyfini çıkarın, ben aşılıyım' reklamı yorumu: Neredeyse sömürge zihniyetini andırıyor

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Sadly, new #bogaziciuniversitesi rector #MelihBulu has also now been accused of plagiarism ...

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Seeing police snipers at #BogaziciUniversity protest is especially disturbing because it echoes May 1, 1977, Taksim Square incident where peaceful demonstrators were fatally shot by unidentified snipers

Boğaziçi Direnişi

@budirenisi

3 years

Güney Kapı'nın karşısındaki binaların çatısında keskin nişancılar bekliyor! #BundanSonras ıBizde

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@vanessahlarson

5 years

" #Khashoggi Way" sign up in front of @washingtonpost building tonight #JamalKhashoggi

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

How times have changed: * A 1973 ad promoting Turkey's national beer, @Efes , below * Today, govt said alcohol sales will be banned during 17-day lockdown, and #alkol ümedokunma ("don't touch my alcohol") is trending on Turkish Twitter

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Amazing images of congregants spaced apart for Friday prayers in #Istanbul -- multicolored prayer mats look like a mosaic

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@vanessahlarson

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Not a good look for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. Where are the women?!

Türkiye Simge Goorany

@tgoorany

1 month

Merhabalar Erkek 1, Erkek 2, Erkek 3, Erkek 4, Erkek 5, Erkek 6, Erkek 7, Erkek 8, Erkek 9, Erkek 10, Erkek 11, Erkek 12, Erkek 13, Erkek 14, Erkek 15, Erkek 16, Erkek 17, Erkek 18, Erkek 19, Erkek 20. Bu bizim hakettiğimiz ve arzuladığımız bir anlayış değil. @ekrem_imamoglu

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

Horrible scenes from Turkey -- a direct consequence of demonization of Syrian refugees

Selin Girit

@selingirit

3 years

After a day of tension between Syrian migrants and Turkish residents in Ankara’s #Alt ındağ district, stemming from the stabbing and death of a Turkish citizen, crowds gathered to march and attack what they believed were Syrian businesses

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

The lack of an equivalent English expression to Turkish "kolay gelsin" is so glaring that I taught it to a couple of British colleagues at a previous job and got them to use it 😁

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Introduced myself to @kilicdarogluk , who seemed pleasantly surprised to be addressed in Turkish at Washington Post headquarters

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

Very suspicious: Overseas voting period in 2nd round of #TurkeyElections has been reduced from 5 to 2 days in U.S., Canada, other countries where voters preferred Kılıçdaroğlu in 1st round -- but *not* in AKP strongholds of Germany, Netherlands, etc.

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Şaka bu yana, bu ABD seçimi, Türkiye 2019 seçimine rahatsız edecek kadar yakın benzerlikler var...

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Heartbreaking report from #Irpin , Ukraine, by @siobhan_ogrady + @maxbearak : "Her father and son were buried without even a priest present because of the constant threat of Russian attack. She wrapped them in blankets and said the funeral rites herself."

After weeks of street battles, Kyiv suburb is scene of ruin

In Irpin, people are emerging to a wasteland of destruction where their neighborhood once thrived.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Writer @NektariaAna 's wonderful novel "A Recipe for Daphne" — which I reviewed for The Washington Post when it came out — confronts the painful legacy of the Sept. 6-7, 1955, Istanbul anti-Greek pogroms

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

Turkey's new "misinformation law" is a "dangerous, dystopian" censorship law, per @hrw -- not just for journalists but for social media users: "Anyone who criticizes the government on online platforms can be prosecuted under disinformation charges"

Turkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments

Turkey’s parliament passed a swathe of new amendments known as the “censorship law” on October 13, 2022, introducing new abusive criminal speech offences that further deepen online censorship and...

www.hrw.org

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@vanessahlarson

3 years

"Cat-Lovers' Avenue" -- a real street name in Ankara, Turkey 😺

Dr. Işıl Acehan

@IsilAcehan

3 years

Herkese günaydın! ☀️ Türkiye’deki en sevimli cadde ismi bu sanırım. Ankara, Ulus. 🐈🐈‍⬛😊

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

“Every night when we go to bed, we think of the possibility that we might be taken in the morning” -- Kars mayor @ayhanbilgen , on #Turkey 's ouster of dozens of elected pro- #Kurdish HDP mayors; my colleague @kfahim reports, w/ comments from @gonultol

Turkey’s crackdown on political opposition finds a favored target: Elected Kurdish mayors

Authorities have removed almost 50 elected mayors from a pro-Kurdish party and detained at least 20.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Loving these gorgeous photos of #Iran in response to a certain person's threat; check out hashtag #IranianCulturalSites initiated by @AtiehS for more like this ⬇️

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@vanessahlarson

1 year

Lol to all the trolls asking, "Why aren't you concerned about Europe and the U.S. accepting such small numbers of refugees" -- guess what, I am!! I have also written about Syrian refugee artists, etc.

Vanessa H. Larson

@vanessahlarson

3 years

@KhaledBeydoun The U.S. is poised to admit the LOWEST number of refugees in the history of the program this year — 6,246 through July 31, partly due to pandemic delays

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Nearly a full page in today's @washingtonpost Book World: Two books reflect on the Ottoman Empire 100 years after its collapse: My review of @nords41 's “The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire” and @dianadarke 's “The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy”:

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

"Gözümüz baydın" is for real now 🤣 #Biden

Burak Bilgehan Özpek

@bozpek

4 years

Biden kazanırsa "gözümüz baydın" diye tweet atmak için sabırsızlanıyorum.

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@vanessahlarson

4 years

Important questions after today's earthquake in Turkey: "Our construction sector is the one we are most proud of. But with every earthquake, we see the same images of ruined buildings. One can't help but ask: Who benefits from our most-vaunted construction sector?" #Deprem #izmir

Kemal Büyükyüksel

@KBuyukyuksel

4 years

En çok gurur duyduğumuz sektörümüz inşaat sektörü. Ama her depremde gördüğümüz kareler aynı, yıkılan binalar. İnsan sormadan edemiyor, bu çok gurur duyduğumuz inşaat sektörü kime fayda sağlıyor?

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@vanessahlarson

5 years

So true. People in #Turkey still have faith in democracy despite all the country has gone through

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@vanessahlarson

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“It’s tragic but history is repeating, and that’s why humanity has to react,” former ICC judge @MorenoOcampo1 tells @ishaantharoor about Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabagh, which Moreno Ocampo has said is an act of genocide

Analysis | Armenians see a new genocide taking place. Azerbaijan sees propaganda.

In an ethnic Armenian enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh, tens of thousands are enduring what locals and international experts describe as a blockade at the hands of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s U.N. envoy...

www.washingtonpost.com

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@vanessahlarson

2 years

1955 Istanbul anti-Greek/anti-minority pogroms: 15 dead, 300 injured, 400 women raped 5,000+ homes/businesses/houses of worship attacked -- 59% of properties were owned by Greeks, 17% Armenian, 12% Jewish