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Bünyamin Tekin
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Speaks headlinese and journalese, thinks in E-prime.

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Google calls them “hyper-scale cloud regions,” but they are massive data centers that US towns refuse to host. They leave a heavy environmental footprint. Turkey is easier. Erdoğan approves and the public cannot push back.
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Twitter is down. I don’t have the heart to tell the Bluesky crowd that Trump is still alive.
September 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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EU urged to address censorship by large online platforms at authoritarian governments’ request
EU urged to address censorship by large online platforms at authoritarian governments’ request - Turkish Minute
Bünyamin Tekin, Brussels Speakers at a Brussels panel discussion marking World Press Freedom Day warned that journalists in exile face increasing censorship from large online platforms acting on requests...
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May 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Turkey blocked 27,304 social media accounts in first four months of 2025: minister
Turkey blocked 27,304 social media accounts in first four months of 2025: minister - Turkish Minute
Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday 27,304 social media accounts had been blocked in the first four months of 2025 as part of the country’s expanding digital crackdown, the Demirören news...
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May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#Italian PM Giorgia Meloni thanks Erdoğan for reducing irregular migrant departures from #Turkey to “zero,” calling migration cooperation a success.
April 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Moment of 6.2 quake caught live on air by #CNN Türk: Anchors interrupted their broadcast as the studio shook violently during the #earthquake off #İstanbul’s coast.
April 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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A 6.2 magnitude #earthquake struck off the coast of Silivri in the Marmara Sea near #İstanbul, shaking Turkey’s most populous city and surrounding provinces.

Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said there were no signs of damage to highways, airports, trains or metro lines.
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"Whether the alleged blackmail archive ever surfaces remains uncertain. But even in rumored form, it has cast a shadow over Fidan and disrupted what had been, until now, a carefully curated image that made him the candidate to fill Erdoğan’s shoes in the eyes of many analysts."
April 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The humanitarian aid system in Gaza is “facing total collapse” due to Israel’s blockade on aid and supplies, ongoing since March 2, warn the heads of 12 major aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children.

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April 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🎥""People in #Turkey, the Middle East, Russia, and China understand what's happening in the United States very clearly because they have lived in environments of political repression where there are some things you may not talk about." — Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social)
April 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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🎥 “The goal here is not to deport one student... The goal here is to quash criticism of Israel... to create a climate of fear.” — Sarah Leah Whitson ( @sarahleah1.bsky.social)
April 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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🎥“An environment of terrorism”—Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social ) on the rising cost of pro-Palestine speech in the US.
April 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"How is it possible that the United States is hurting itself, hurting its own country, hurting its own freedoms in order to protect the interests of a tiny genocidal regime thousands of miles away?"
April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Speaking to Turkish Minute's @bunyamintekin.bsky.social, Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1.bsky.social), executive director of @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social, calls what’s happening in the US today “a deliberate campaign of repression, fear, intimidation — some would say really an environment of terrorism.”
April 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Death of jailed teacher’s daughter is a rights abuse, Turkey should free political prisoners: British MP
Death of jailed teacher’s daughter is a rights abuse, Turkey should free political prisoners: British MP - Turkish Minute
British lawmaker Edward Leigh has described the recent death of a 15-year-old girl whose mother is imprisoned in Turkey as a human rights violation and urged Turkish authorities to release all political...
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April 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pro-government commentators in Turkey have begun promoting the idea of Gazans relocating to Muslim countries, prompting backlash and speculation that President Erdoğan may be preparing to shift his stance on Trump's widely condemned displacement plan.
April 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
With Erdoğan’s top rival jailed, protests crushed, and X blocking accounts at the government’s request, more Turks are turning to Bluesky.
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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More than 39,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have had one or both parents killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal war, says the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day.

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April 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I have no sympathy for Israelis, nor for Israel supporters who say they "feel unsafe". This isn't because I am uncaring, it's because I know any sympathy I might point in that direction will be harnessed and used to murder Palestinians, start wars, and destroy free speech rights.
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on Thursday issued an unprecedented call for the militant group to lay down its arms & disband, a development that has drawn a cautious response from the Turkish government, celebrations among Kurds and initial silence from much of the opposition.
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails released in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of emaciation and abuse.

Read here: aje.io/y4xup8
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM