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Michael Sercan Daventry
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Radio journalist @ BBC News/BBC Sounds. Formerly: Sky News, Euronews, Jewish News, TRT | 🇹🇷🇬🇧 | DMs open, all views mine, Türkçemiz de var az çok.
You don't really need subtitles to see how well presenter Meltem Bozbeyoğlu handles the moment a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Istanbul struck live on CNN Türk, but here they are in any case.
April 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In Turkish North Cyprus, an education ministry official is turned away from a school barricaded by parents who don’t want to admit a pupil who wears a headscarf.

It appears they’re fighting Turkey’s battles of the 1990s, but in the social media age.

Via HaberKKTC
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“The terrorism charge is particularly serious because it could allow him to be removed from office. It means that by the end of the day Ekrem İmamoğlu may no longer be mayor of Istanbul.”

Me on the BBC World Service a little earlier.
March 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM