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Finally becoming an active blue sky user (blue-skyer?) and it seems appropriate to share the main thing I've been working on for the past year. It's the only project of its kind I'm aware of: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This reporting was powered by @berileski.bsky.social's tireless determination to get to every facet of the story, and by @bradleysecker.bsky.social whose photos illuminated the story. It was made possible by @anniekelly.bsky.social and @theguardian.com Saturday eds, inc @robfearn.bsky.social

Important to note that the data in Turkey is highly reliant on a gender binary: Our reporting hinges on data collected by the state. But evidence of violence against trans and gender nonconforming people is further hidden, because that data is not collected at all.

All of this fuels an environment where Turkish women find the odds stacked against them when they try to report violence – and that when a woman is found dead, as in the cases we reported on here, some officials appear reluctant to examine evidence of a cause of death that is not suicide.

Turkish officials have also blamed women for violence against them. Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya, when disclosing annual femicide statistics in 2024, cited 32 cases where women "did not obey" restraining orders and opened their doors to men who then shot them.

Here is why this reporting matters: Just last month, a female judge was shot in the leg by a male prosecutor in her office. A woman's severed head was found in a dumpster in Istanbul. Femicide in Turkey is a regular occurrence – one fuelled by lax investigation and enforcement.

“We used to see women dying due to poisoning, but now, with blood tests, you can see if someone was poisoned. So we see a decrease in that and an increase in deaths by falling. It’s harder to prove if these are a suicide, an accident or a femicide," said the veteran campaigner Gülsüm Kav.

The question of whether hundreds of women are throwing themselves to their death need not be a mystery: Forensic experts can provide key evidence to prove whether someone was pushed or fell. But campaigners and lawyers say Turkish courts are increasingly unwilling to cite this crucial evidence.

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths? Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full...

“She was my daughter for 29 years – it’s impossible she jumped from that height."

Hundreds of women are recorded in Turkish state data every year as committing suicide by 'throwing themselves from a high place.' But did they all jump– or were they pushed?

Reporting with @berileski.bsky.social

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths? Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths?

“Hundreds of women are recorded every year as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. Their grieving families say these figures conceal cases where women did not jump but were pushed.” Important report by @ruthmichaelson.com @berileski.bsky.social on femicides in Turkey

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths? Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full...

One of my favorite things about working at the Guardian is watching my friends make incredible stories
@ruthmichaelson.com @berileski.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Hoşbulduk!

My first piece from this part of the world, co-authored with my buddy Mohamad

Finally got around to listening to Lethal Dissent. Brave reporting & incredible storytelling from @faribanawa.bsky.social @berileski.bsky.social @farooqumar.bsky.social on how #Iranian dissidents are surveilled & silenced in exile. Final episode broke me.
www.onspecpodcast.com/season-five-...

Why Counterfeit Ozempic Is a Global-Growth Industry The semaglutide weight-loss miracle has a dark side: As desperate patients contend with shortages and sky-high prices, a world of criminals and con artists are filling the void with life-threatening…

Delighted my @VanityFair.com story on counterfeit Ozempic, Shots in the Dark, has won @NYPressClub award for magazine consumer reporting. Great addt'l reporting by @berileski.bsky.social @katherineli.bsky.social. Stellar editing by @tapeslammike.bsky.social. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

When you and @berileski.bsky.social bizarrely mug match across continents ❤️

“It is a positive development should Turkey’s decades-long armed conflict with the PKK come to an end. There are, however, major obstacles ahead,” said @sinemadar.bsky.social citing a lack of clarity around how the disarmament will be organized and what will happen to senior PKK cadres and fighters.

Kurdish militant group PKK says it will end armed struggle against Turkey The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported.

Historic day in Turkey as PKK says it will disband and disarm. Here's our dispatch for the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

#Türkiye: Medyada İnovasyon podcast serisinin 7. bölümünde Uraz Kaspar, gazeteci Beril Eski'yle uluslararası medyaya haber yapma, The New York Times'ın medyadaki inovatif rolü ve ekip çalışmasının haber kalitesine katkısını konuşuyor. Bölümümüze davetlisiniz.
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How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

@washingtonpost.com's @kareemf.bsky.social, Loveday Morris, @leloveluck.bsky.social, @gregpmiller.bsky.social, @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social and @berileski.bsky.social account of the fall of Syria's Assad: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

Long read on the collapse of the Assad regime, based on interviews on every side.

by @washingtonpost.com’s
@mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social
@leloveluck.bsky.social
@kareemf.bsky.social
@berileski.bsky.social
@gregpmiller.bsky.social
& Loveday Morris

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Press Freedom Mission urges Turkey to immediately withdraw law labeling critics as spies Media freedom groups today called on Turkey’s government to fully withdraw the amendments to the espionage act currently before parliament. The proposed bill would enable judges to increase sentences ...

Press Freedom Mission urges Turkey to immediately withdraw law labeling critics as spies -
‘Agents of influence’ bill would brand government opponents as engaging in espionage freeturkeyjournalists.ipi.media/press-freedo...

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Türkiye'de yapay zeka gelir kapısı oldu YouTube video by DW Türkçe

(haberimi diğer platformlardan önce ilk kez burada paylaşıyorum :) burası büyüsün çok istiyorum)

Yapay zekaya Türkiye'de kimler akıl veriyor? 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k92u...

Oh and an Italian dance act who filmed a video there, influencers who keep breaking into the site. Then there's the angry townspeople who either want the entire thing to be demolished, or want the castles to be finished –by a Turkish state organisation that involves the presidency.

Since construction stopped at the site, there has been a contractor with a vendetta against the developers, an attempted suicide at the site, and an increasing diplomatic row with Kuwait, as over 150 disgruntled buyers say they want their $300,000 castles. But will they ever be finished?

‘If I had the power I’d destroy the whole thing’: what went wrong with the ghost town of Disney-style castles? It was meant to be a dream development but, 13 years on, it remains unfinished – a microcosm of Turkey’s scandal-hit construction sector under Erdoğan

Ever heard of the mystery of the 732 empty Disney-style castles in the middle of the Turkish countryside?

The excellent @berileski.bsky.social and I followed the strange tale of how they came to be there in the first place, and why they've been abandoned (and crumbling) since 2016.

Beril Eski | The Rory Peck Trust Based in Turkey

Also a finalist is an amazing journo in Beril Eski (she's here @berileski.bsky.social ) whose high caliber investigative journo work chasing hidden money trails and documenting state repression is published in @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com and other placrs. Congrats Beril and well done👏🏿👏🏿