[Boiler]

Seriously?

"Once the teacher asked us who believed in evolutionary theory. I raised my hand. The teacher said: 'Are you a monkey then?'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40384471" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[The Red Arrow]

Turkey sentences journalists to life in jail over coup attempt

Sentencing over alleged role in failed putsch condemned as showing disregard for rule of law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ailed-coup

Watch the tossers from our fair free and cherished press compare themselves to these poor bastards.

[The Red Arrow]

I'm getting runblings that all's not groovy over there. From what I can gather there's a presidential election coming up, and Erdoğan's Ministry of Bullshit and Suppression has gone into overdrive.

Fake news?

How one Turkish t.v channel reported an opposition rally in Izmir yesterday...




What my family saw...

[Kreuzberger]

Utter chaos in Ankara tonight as Erdogan's Anadolu Agency reckons that 86.5% of votes have been counted, while Free Elections put the current total at 43.3%.

This looks like more of the same post-truth "Our guy won, who cares?" poison that we are now becoming used to. How can estimates be almost 100% apart?

In other news, I have been seeing more and more cheap flight deals to Turkey popping up in my ads and then, apropos of nothing and over breakfast yesterday, die Kreuzbergerin asks me if I fancy spending my birthday in Istanbul.

€151 return from Munich and thirty bucks a night in Kadıköy with a roof terrace - oh yes!

[The Red Arrow]

Izmir is crying "foul!"

Yes, bargains ro be had. Might be passing through Munich airport in the near future.

[Kreuzberger]

Meh, billions in EU subsidies to stop refugees storming the gates, a NATO partner, blah - blah. Another blatant coup, by any other name, that will have blown over by next weekend, apart from within the justifiably seething ranks of the opposition in their home country.

Meanwhile, yes. With the TRY:EUR at 5.4:1.0, that should mean a moment or two living the high-life. We'll get our balls booted for the journey from Regensburg down to MUC - or for the temerity of wanting to park the car - but time off in early October needs to tightly managed.

[Timbo]

Fake news. Everyone knows this was the 'Free Tommy' march in London. Sad!

[The Red Arrow]

[The Red Arrow]

Wanker in acting like wanker shocker...

Erdoğan shows Christchurch attack footage at rallies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... at-rallies

[Zuriblue]

Not seen it in the UK news yet but the Turkish Electoral Commission has annulled the result of the Istanbul mayoral election and ordered a rerun.

Sorry, this is in German

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/as ... y/16594814

[The Red Arrow]

In (American) English...

Brief -
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/turk ... on-victory

Detailed -
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/worl ... ction.html

[WTF?]

Recep (Ray-Zhip) v.t. to hijack the democratic process for financial or political gain. e.g. "The boy receped (past.) the angry Gammons." See also Farage, Hoey, Gove, Smith (Duncan-Cunt), Fox, Johnson etc.

[The Red Arrow]

#herseycokguezelolacak

(Literally 'everything will be very beautiful' - everything will be alright)

Invoking Luke Skywalker, Clark Kent and Liverpool F.C.

[spoonman]

I suspect Ms Red Arrow might be a little busy so please accept my apologies for getting this in first, but it looks like the voters in Istanbul have told Erdogan that he has to take defeat on the chin, or they'll give him a bigger punch the next time.

Istanbul mayoral re-run: Erdogan's ruling AKP set to lose

Turkey's ruling party is set to lose control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city's mayoral election, latest results show.

The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, has won 54% of the vote with nearly all ballots counted.

He won a surprise victory in March which was annulled after the ruling AK party complained of irregularities.

His opponent, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, has conceded.

The result is a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has previously said that "whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey".

Mr Imamoglu's lead of more than 775,000 votes marks a huge increase on his victory in March, when he won by just 13,000.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48739256

[The Red Arrow]

Well, the champagne corks will be popping in Izmir tonight.