Deze week in De Balkanman, @mitrala.bsky.social over Turkije, de Balkan, raki, rakija en Utrecht. En zelfs nog meer. Luister nu in je favoriete podcastapp.

NOS-correspondent Daisy Mohr en cameravrouw Edmée van Rijn winnen Tegel Mohr en Van Rijn reisden naar Damascus om verslag te doen van de restanten van het regime van Assad.

Nadat dictator Assad in december Syrië ontvluchtte, kwamen gruwelijke overblijfselen van het regime aan het licht. NOS-collega's Daisy Mohr en Edmée van Rijn reisden onder andere naar Damascus om daar verslag van te doen. En voor die verslaggeving wonnen ze gisteravond De Tegel ✨

Trial of 5 journalists who covered Turkish protests set to open - Committee to Protect Journalists Istanbul, April 17, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkey to drop charges against five photojournalists, whose trial begins on Friday, for allegedly taking part in protests in Ista...

Trial of 5 journalists who covered Turkish protests set to open cpj.org?p=472669

Highly recommend to listen to @bilgeyesil.bsky.social to understand how Turkey has been and still is increasingly trying to control the media, on and offline 👇🏼

Well-known investigative journalists Timur Soykan & Murat Ağırel were detained this morning in Turkey after a complaint by suspects in a money laundering case. Their homes were searched & their digital devices confiscated. FMA calls for their release because #JournalismIsNotACrime

Pikachu protested in Turkey before it was cool. Now he’s unionising against Musk.
You're welcome, world.

The Turkish twitter/X sphere is mass moving to BlueSky at the moment. Hepinize hoşgeldiniz 🙋🏻‍♀️

Podcast De Dag: Imamoglu, rivaal van Erdogan In Turkije wordt al een week massaal gedemonstreerd tegen president Erdogan en tegen de arrestatie van de burgemeester van Istanbul en presidentskandidaat voor de oppositie: Ekrem Imamoglu. Wie is hij...

www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/podca... - met @mitrala.bsky.social

Ik heb het gezien! Meerdere burgemeesters. Wegens tijdgebrek niet kunnen melden, zal ik de volgende keer wel doen.

Still many questions regarding the future roadmap of Turkey vs PKK. Here are some possible steps 👇🏼

Some preliminary thoughts about Ocalan's statement (after rereading it&inspired by a conversation with the great .@nebahattanriverdi.bsky.social):

1) Ocalan calls the PKK's ideological basis ("real socialism") dead.

Turkish man gets prison sentence after filing complaint against Erdoğan A Turkish court has sentenced a man to 10 months in prison over “insulting” President Erdoğan after he filed a complaint against the latter. He was under house arrest for 18 months.

Turkish man is found guilty of "insulting the President" after he filed a complaint about the disinformation spread by the President's election campaign.

It is obvious the law is not the same for everyone.

www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-man-...

Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey Turkey Book Talk #238 – Claudia Liebelt, professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Berlin, on “Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femini…

New episode 🎧📚

Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey

In "Istanbul Appearances", Liebelt researched extensively in Istanbul's beauty salons and cosmetic surgery centres, exploring the sector’s extraordinary growth

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turkeybooktalk.com/2025/02/18/c...

Is this the end of the PKK insurgency? | With Gönül Tol YouTube video by Middle East Institute

A historic shift may be on the horizon, as Turkey and Kurdish militant leader Ocalan engage in unexpected peace talks. After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. Watch our short explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rc...

Sultan Donald and his Grand Vizier Musk pasha. This is account Ottomanizes the Trump administration

Donate to Help kwetsbare kinderen in aardbevingsgebied Hatay, organized by Stichting Solidarity Kitchen NL De nood in het aardbevingsgebied is na twee jaar nog steeds h… Stichting Solidarity Kitchen NL needs your support for Help kwetsbare kinderen in aardbevingsgebied Hatay

Deze dansschool van de inspirerende Didem Koban kan alle steun gebruiken. Ze doen zulk essentieel en concreet werk met kinderen in Antakya. Meltem Halaceli startte een gofundme -> www.gofundme.com/f/kwetsbarek...

Dans als therapie: Turkse kinderen overwinnen trauma na aardbeving Onze correspondent Mitra Nazar keert twee jaar na de verwoestende aardbeving terug naar de Turkse provincie Hatay.

Twee jaar na de aardbevingsramp, ging ik terug naar Antakya, waar de wonden nog diep zijn. Trauma’s, angsten, rouw, verdriet. Waar begin je om dat te verwerken? Kinderen van de dansgroep van Didem Koban doen het door te dansen wat ze meemaakten. Helen door te dansen: nos.nl/l/2554789

Turkey's Court of Cassation ruled that a man who beat a girl unconscious, tried to strangulate her, locked her in a barrel, burned her alive, dumped her body in the woods and poured concrete on it, acted because "unfair provocation," rejecting prosecution's charge of premeditated murder.
#femicide

Fears of a bigger earthquake that could cause a tsunami in the sea around Santorini, after hundreds of tremors in the past days.
(This is interesting, has this level of predictive warning been seen before?)

Sad day for Turkey. At least 66 people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort in northwestern Turkey. Culprit is the same: corruption and influence of construction sector over Erdogan. In 2012, after request from the construction sector, ++

On Sunday, thousands of people gathered where Hrant Dink, founding editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was murdered in broad daylight 18 years ago in Istanbul, Turkey, to reiterate the call to the Turkish authorities for full justice.
cpj.org/data/people/hr…

The spirit in Tbilisi atm 👇🏼

Meanwhile in Georgia, a pro Russian symbol of anti-west conspiracy theories & mediocre former football player will be announced as the new president today. Widely seen as puppet of authoritarian oligarch Ivanishvili who’s been following Russian playbook, sparking mass pro-EU protests.

With the fall of Syria’s Moscow-supported regime, a large chunk of Russia’s leverage over Türkiye is gone. But Erdoğan will not take the risk of challenging Russia. Rather, he will continue acting as an intermediary between Putin and the West. -> read @dimitarbechev.bsky.social

Erdoğan has two big problems that a post-Assad Syria might help him solve. -> read @gonultol.bsky.social

A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting

JUST IN: TV Pitveli journalist Maka Chikhladze is thrown on the ground by the Titushky (regime thugs) after putting their hand on her mouth, and the cameraman is attacked. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

Interesting analysis on Georgian protests prospects & support or lack there of in police, army etc👇🏼

Turkish police assaulted and detained dozens of women during their protest against violence against women. (25/11 is the International Day for Elimination of Violence against women)
Have a look at these strong photos by @bianet.bsky.social that show how very dangerous these women truly are 👇🏼