Ankara is the largest jailor of journalists in the world, routinely bashes LGBT activists, is one of the most authoritarian far-right hate-filled regimes in the world, invaded and ethnically cleansed Afrin, routinely does targeted assassinations abroad, imprisons ppl for tweets..
It’s like Mussolini’s Italy talking about human rights, give us a break. People are in prison for decades for tweets. For tweets....anything critical of the president lands people in prison. There is no critical media or critical voices on state media
Ankara’s state media has LESS criticism of the regime than Iran’s state media. Just read TRT and Anadolu and compare to Fars and Tasnim. And this ridiculous regime talks human rights
Hevrin Khalaf. Ask what the regime did to her.

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1 Mar
I'm not really sure how the US is sending a message against similar attacks, doesn't Ankara hunt down journalists at home, doesn't Iran target journalists even abroad, and Lokman Slim was murdered and Hisham al-Hashimi...so what is being done.
I mean, Hevrin Khalaf wasn't a journalist but she was a political activist and leader and she was openly targeted and murdered by Ankara-backed extremists, so I'd like to understand how any country in the world is being made to feel such things can't happen.
I look all over the world and see rising authoritarians with impunity. I work as a journalist and there are plenty of countries I can't go to because maybe I wrote critical views in the past...I think most regimes feel total impunity.
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1 Mar
Thread:Saying it now in case I don't find a place or time to write an article on this: Gantz and Ashkenazi have been very good as Israel's Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and it was only a year; they did a lot, shows how bad it was when Israel lacked key people in positions
Sadly too many decisions have all been concentrated in the Prime Minister office as the Foreign Ministry was undermined as well as decisions taken that should have included DefMin; Israel needed robust DefMin, ForMin to do business and meet with other countries
Example: Netanyahu never meets publicly with Jordan's leadership; shame, because Israel and Jordan share many interests. But Gantz can and has. Sidelining these positions or in many cases not even having a foreign and defense minister harmed Israel.
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1 Mar
Thread: I've never seen a clear explanation why the various voices claiming Israel must vaccinate Palestinians include Gaza...but don't claim Israel must provide all the other health care there...only vaccines. It strikes me as just virtue signaling, not a serious argument
Yet these statements say things like: "Equally provide: Israel must fulfill a legal responsibility to make sure all Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are vaccinated."

What is this "legal" responsibility?
Some say Israel still "occupies" Gaza...but they don't suggest Israel has a "legal" responsibility to run Gaza's health care system...which has been run by the Palestinian Authority and then Hamas for decades. So what is the exact responsibility...theconversation.com/israel-faces-l…
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14 Feb
So Ankara launched illegal military operation in Iraq...and now has claimed a death toll associated with it to excuse some new military invasion and also a crackdown on dissidents inside Turkey. Also goal appears to be to engineer US support (see it already got US embassy tweet)
Reads like it was orchestrated entirely to create a fake crisis so Ankara could wring a phone call or concessions out of new US admin. Image
See the goal is to use this operation, which Ankara itself launched illegally invading Iraq...claiming it fights “terrorists”...to then actually use this as an excuse to go after the opposition at home, which it has already jailed and dismissed most of its mayors Image
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13 Feb
Looks like after having turned it into an all-powerful presidential system, removing immunity from parliamentarians to jail them, the horrid regime will now pass its Enabling Act for total dictatorship, no free media, no dissent, not protests at universities, endless war.
Ankara's regime is one of the most dangerous regimes in the world, partly because it is empowered and protected by friends in the EU and NATO to have total impunity, other powerful authoritarians such as Iran, Russia and China don't get "NATO" stamp.
Ankara is so addicted to war in Syria and Iraq, where it hijacked and destroyed the Syrian rebellion to co-opt it to be used against Kurds, it will never stop its attacks, and that is also why it got involved in Azerbaijan and Libya. It sold this as "confronting Iran" but not.
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12 Feb
Extraordinary. The apparent implosion of this organization had its seeds in lack of diversity; important lessons here.
Diversity was lacking, Horn left a week ago; but why diversity is an issue is that it means there were less checks and balances apparently on kind of group think and it was easier to ignore the growing scandal which has now become well known thehill.com/homenews/news/…
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