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"Les championnats de troisième et quatrième divisions du pays, dans lesquels évoluent plus de 900 des joueurs incriminés, sont suspendus pendant deux semaines" @afp.com
« L’arbitrage étranger est désormais une nécessité pour rétablir un sentiment de justice dans le football turc » @afp.com
"C'est l'atmosphère la plus hostile dont je me souvienne (...) Un endroit de fous furieux" (@afp.com)
"Quand vous payez des équipements militaires en Occident, il faut que ça passe par des accords politiques, des négociations. Avec la Turquie, nous avons une célérité que nous n'avons pas ailleurs, même pas en Russie ou en Chine” @afp.com
« J'ai de bonnes relations avec un homme nommé Erdogan. Avez-vous entendu parler de lui ? Il se trouve que je l'aime bien et qu'il m'aime bien »
In Turkey, new technologies - including facial recognition, internet access restrictions, and online surveillance - reinforce repression of ongoing anti-government protests, @afpnews.bsky.social reports: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
MLSA co-director @barisalt.bsky.social told AFP Turkish authorities "seem to be very determined on limiting coverage of the protests".
She added: "We fear that the crackdown on the press will not only continue but also increase."
"Chaque méthode de pression génère son antidote. Nous verrons bientôt davantage de vêtements, de lunettes ou de maquillage utilisés pour neutraliser les technologies de reconnaissance faciale" #AFP
"There is no other way than to keep fighting," protester Cafer Sungur, 78, told AFP. "I was jailed in the 1970s but back then there was justice. Today we can't talk about justice any more." #AFP
"Crushing the CHP means crushing whatever is left of democracy in Turkey. More precisely, it means transforming Turkey's elected authoritarian regime into a fully authoritarian one" #AFP
With comments from @yunussozen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
🔵 Le PDG de l'Agence France-Presse, Fabrice Fries, a appelé la présidence turque à "la libération rapide" du photographe de l’AFP Yasin Akgül, placé en détention pour avoir, selon les autorités turques, participé à un rassemblement illégal à Istanbul.
"It's very difficult to attract longer-term strategic foreign investors to Turkey in this kind of environment where even locals don't have a full understanding of what's happening," said Emre Akcakmak, a portfolio advisor at investment group East Capital
La contestation menace de s'étendre vendredi en Turquie avec de nouveaux appels à manifester en soutien à Ekrem Imamoglu, maire d'Istanbul et principal opposant au président Erdogan, au surlendemain de son arrestation pour "terrorisme" et "corruption" #AFP
Istanbul & Ankara #AFP
Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 20, 2025. The data indicates ongoing widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including WhatsApp, Telegram, X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, Turknet with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.
⚠️ Update: it has now been 40 hours since Turkey imposed widespread social media and messaging restrictions amidst the detention of political opposition figures including Istanbul mayor Imamoglu; the incident continues to severely limit the public's ability to access information
"Whenever Erdogan and his dirty team see someone strong, they panic and do something illegal to him"
"Autrefois, c'étaient les soldats qui menaient des coups d'Etat, mais aujourd'hui ce sont les politiques qui les fomentent"
Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 19, 2025. The data indicates widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.
⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Turkey has restricted access to multiple social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok; the incident comes as Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and dozens of others are detained in events described by the opposition as a "coup"
"You must cease all work immediately and are not permitted to access any agency buildings or systems"
The call for applications to the next CEST Summer School is now up on the CEST website:
🔹University of Turin, 24–31 August 2025
🔹Theme: "Turkey’s Culture Wars –– Culture, Politics, and Society Under Autocratization."
Please share widely!
cest-turkey.org/home/summerc...
AFP’s Rouba el-Husseini rummages through the mountain bunkers, luxury villas, and secret archives of the Fourth Division, Maher al-Assad’s military-commercial empire.
www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @afpnews.bsky.social
Taşkın Erduan pensait avoir fait une bonne affaire en payant ses trois litres de vodka l'équivalent de 15 euros. Mais deux verres ont suffi à le tuer
"I want the bloodshed to stop. I want a ceasefire. And I am not alone" - by AFP's Fulya Özerkan
Taşkın Erduan thought he'd got a bargain: three litres of vodka for around $15. But it took only two glasses to kill the 51-year-old Turkish hairdresser
"The taxes allow the Turkish government to collect easy money while politically oppressing a certain lifestyle" #AFP
