BREAKING — Erdogan concedes defeat.

“We will obey the will of the people as we have done in the past. The people said their last words. We will work with the mayors who won the elections. We will self-critique ourselves. We had setbacks.”

A total blowout for Erdoğan’s party in Istanbul elections. It it was obvious for months that the AKP had no path to victory in Istanbul. Demographics totally against them.

Turkey opposition leads in Istanbul local vote, initial results show reuters.com/world/middle-e…

“The expansive and experimental effort is being used to conduct mass surveillance in Gaza, collecting and cataloging the faces of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent.” nytimes.com/2024/03/27/tec…

Muhtar elections: Why Turkey’s oldest and lowest post still matters open.substack.com/pub/turkeyreca…

.'The horror at Crocus City Hall obviously has nothing to do with gays or Ukrainians or any other of Putin’s enemies of choice. 'Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/m…

🇹🇷🤝🇪🇬 The carefully choreographed meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdelfattah Elsisi, served as a final burial ceremony for what was once an emerging third axis in the Middle East, writes The Atlantic Council Middle East Initiatives’s Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒.

Read more. ⬇️
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

Elon Musk should buy TikTok and destroy it like he did Twitter

France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Iran's hardline Fars News Agency claims 40% of eligible voters took part in the parliamentary and assembly of experts election on Friday. Highly doubtful, but still a far cry from the 70% who voted in historic 2000 elections

A photo of Navalny has been taped to a tree at Sandarmokh, the site in northwest Russia where thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were buried in mass graves.

Photo via t.me/Govorit_NeMosk…

“This has become more than a scientific battle, it’s become a political battle. I never imagined how science could lead into politics so directly.”
My profile on the Italian-Canadian doctor identifying migrants who die at sea. mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/determined-to-…

Zooming in on Ingenuity's final resting place among the sand ripples in Neretva Vallis.

Full resolution panorama: flic.kr/p/2pwyXGU

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
#ThanksIngenuity #MarsHelicopter

“I don’t even pay that much for breakfast in Germany”

95% of plastic polluting the world’s oceans comes from these 10 rivers:

Niger 🇬🇳 🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇧🇯 🇳🇬
Nile 🇨🇩 🇹🇿 🇧🇮 🇷🇼 🇺🇬 🇰🇪 🇪🇹 🇪🇷 🇸🇸 🇸🇩 🇪🇬
Indus 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇵🇰
Ganges 🇮🇳 🇧🇩
Mekong 🇨🇳 🇲🇲 🇱🇦 🇹🇭 🇰🇭 🇻🇳
Pearl 🇨🇳
Yangtze 🇨🇳
Yellow 🇨🇳
Hai 🇨🇳
Amur 🇷🇺 🇨🇳

According to Schmidt - Export of…

In Yemen and elsewhere, manageable local issues are driving an unmanageable regional crisis. My piece for the Atlantic Council atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

Iran pins responsibility for deadly Kerman attack on ISIS, identifying one Tajik national. The attack and choice of targets bore all the hallmarks of a jihadi operation. en.irna.ir/news/85344783/…

Unhinged CEO wants workers to sacrifice more of their lives for a company that would dump them into the street on moment's notice thestreet.com/employment/way…

“Ochigava also requested two meals during each meal service and attempted to eat the cabin crew's chocolate.“ aeroxplorer.com/articles/how-d…

“My nephew was killed — his stomach was blown out — and my older brother was wounded by an airstrike,” Oun Hean, the village chief, told me when I visited in 2010. “During the attack, they fled to the pagoda, but the Americans dropped a bomb on it.” nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opi…