Boots on the Groundhog Day

Art of the Deal, baby

Coverage of Iran War negotiations surprisingly silent on the US and Israel having recently killed the wife, mother, father, son, sister and other family of the man they're negotiating with

Personal letter of recommendation from Turkish Foreign Ministry in 2015 -> will directly claim asylum and never return

Personal letter of recommendation from Turkish Foreign Ministry in 2026 -> will grandstand a bit then leave

Bureaucracy not so nimble perhaps.

AKP'li Mehmet Metiner'in ABD vize talebi 'Türkiye’ye dönmez' diye reddedildi: 'Vermeyeceklerini biliyordum, test etmek için başvurdum' Eski AKP milletvekili Mehmet Metiner, Dışişleri Bakanlığının yazısıyla birlikte ABD vizesine başvurduğunu ancak bu talebin reddedildiğini duyurdu. Metiner’in ret gerekçesi 214(b), yani “ülkesine geri ...

AKP grandee Mehmet Metiner reportedly has his US visa rejected on grounds of "not enough ties to Turkey".

Either they have decided to reject on political grounds as a critic of the US, or they have pattern-matched on fleeing Gulenists who never returned.

www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/siyaset/akp-...

So much for the theory. Iran should allow fertiliser to pass through the Strait of Hormuz; America should not blockade urea shipments from Iran. Tragically, neither shows any inclination to do so. High petrol prices make biofuel more attractive to farmers, not less. And rich countries are in a selfish mood. Failure to act thus looks baked in. In the face of an avoidable disaster, that is shameful.

Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we won’t
economist.com/leaders/2026...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Had to do this. It isn't only his followers who have derangement syndrome

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

Atatürk'ün İngiltere Kralının Önünde Eğildiği Uydurularak Paylaşılan Yapay Zekâ Ürünü Görsel - Malumatfuruş Atatürk'ün İngiltere Kralı VIII. Edward'ı önünde eğilerek karşıladığı iddiasıyla paylaşılan görsel yapay zekâ aracıyla oluşturulmuş.

Some sad anti-Atatürk individual has used AI to create a fake picture of him bowing to the British King
www.malumatfurus.org/ataturk-ingi...

Yes, the first event got wall-to-wall coverage and may have inspired the second (whose shooter was a policeman's son, and probably had access to weapons that way)

The 19-year-old was no longer a student, but blamed his lack of success on the school

Şanlıurfa'daki okul saldırısı anı an be an kamerada: Av tüfeğiyle önüne çıkana ateş açtı! | T24 Şanlıurfa'nın Siverek ilçesinde, av tüfeğiyle liseye giren bir kişinin rastgele açtığı ateşte, aralarında öğrencilerin de olduğu 16 kişi

Unusual in Turkey:
Yesterday a school shooting in Urfa where a 19-year-old wounded 16, today one in Maraş where a 14-year-old killed 9 and wounded 13
t24.com.tr/video/sanliu...
t24.com.tr/gundem/kahra...

Shot/chaser

Ankara Denies Erdoğan Threatened to Invade Israel The Centre for Combating Disinformation issued a formal denial on Sunday, rejecting as groundless claims that President Erdogan had threatened to invade Israel

www.bosphorusnews.com/article/anka...

Davutoğlu could never

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

Found Suleiman the Magnificent's alt:

Erdoğan and Netanyahu in war of words www.firstpost.com/world/ankara...

Shades of former US president Merkin Muffley here

Following the stunning success of Peter Magyar, the time has surely come for Ahmet Türk

Meanwhile, another leader of the main opposition CHP detained in Turkey.

Great news on the Orban front!

There is definitely an anti-Semitic tradition within Islam - the prophet is said to have been poisoned by Jews! - but the violence never took on the recurring nature of Christian societies, probably because of the Jizya and the protected nature of the people of the book.

But in some corners of today's America, the justified sensitivity to letting anti-Semitism back in has become twisted into a language game that launders Netanyahu's war crimes and ethnic cleansing. That's unacceptable.

Those never went away, and where they are propagated this risks the security of Jewish populations, just as the propagation of anti-Somali myths in modern day America risks those communities' safety.

There are a series of tropes from the Dark Ages to the present day that have been used by their Christian neighbours to demonise Jews and justify their murder and the dispossession of their property, culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust.

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A comedian was detained for making an off-color joke about Suleiman II, who died in 1691, and is unlikely to be offended at this late date.