| 1 | Feb 27, '22 | Ukrainian footballer Roman Yaremchuk comes on as a substitute for Benfica in Lisbon. Watch what happens. | 287× | 0 | 132k | 22k | 1.9k |
| 2 | Mar 1, '23 | Found this character, who has refused to leave Antakya, sitting in front of his antiques shop and blasting Pink Floyd from a cassette player to an audience of bemused soldiers and | 226× | 3.7M | 23k | 4.6k | 848 |
| 3 | Feb 25, '22 | Remarkable speech. Addressed to the Russian people, it should also be heard everywhere. | 205× | 0 | 71k | 26k | 3.1k |
| 4 | Mar 6, '23 | Turkish politics in the last 72 hours | 138× | 2.2M | 34k | 2.8k | 478 |
| 5 | Feb 2, '21 | Turkey: Bogazici faculty today, after police detained 159 students yesterday. | 78.9× | 0 | 42k | 4.8k | 103 |
| 6 | Sep 22, '22 | Just stop it, Istanbul. | 69.6× | 0 | 42k | 1.3k | 318 |
| 7 | Feb 6, '23 | The scale of this is just overwhelming. In Antep, as rescue workers search for survivors in one building, another collapses. | 63× | 1M | 2.8k | 1.2k | 162 |
| 8 | Nov 12, '20 | Meanwhile, Turkmenistan’s president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has just unveiled a gisnt statue of his favorite dog | 55.2× | 0 | 17k | 4.1k | 654 |
| 9 | Sep 8, '22 | Inflation in Turkey. Seven years ago 55,000 lira got you a car. Today it gets you a phone. | 51.7× | 0 | 22k | 4.7k | 599 |
| 10 | Mar 29, '25 | We now go the Turkish media’s live coverage of a mass rally, attended by 100s of thousands, held by the oppositon to protest Imamoglu’s arrest. CNNTurk: “Why Israel fears Turkey?” | 36.5× | 593k | 8.4k | 1.3k | 376 |
| 11 | May 23, '19 | Well done Google Translate | 27.7× | 0 | 14k | 1.8k | 36 |
| 12 | Feb 12, '23 | Rescue worker to Turkish far right politician who has been stirring up hate against Syrians during the rescue effort: “There are Syrians, Europeans, Greeks helping us here… We’re f | 26.1× | 424k | 2.2k | 393 | 74 |
| 13 | Feb 12, '23 | “Hello, it’s Malcolm” | 25.4× | 412k | 3k | 237 | 73 |
| 14 | Jan 23, '21 | Pro-Navalny protests in Yakutsk, via @Andrew__Roth Temperature in Yakutsk right now: -52C. | 25.2× | 0 | 9.9k | 2.5k | 143 |
| 15 | Aug 7, '20 | Beirut today. This is so hard to watch. | 24.8× | 0 | 8.2k | 3.3k | 287 |
| 16 | Feb 7, '23 | Apocalyptic scenes here in Antakya. Corpses wrapped in blankets lining the streets, survivors still being pulled from the rubble, practically every other house flattened. Rescue te | 20.3× | 330k | 1.5k | 519 | 74 |
| 17 | Sep 9, '23 | Turkish journalist Afsin Yurdakul leaves Haberturk, a mainstream outlet, with these words: “Without democracy, without the rule of law, without upholding the freedom of expression, | 17.9× | 290k | 1.7k | 374 | 100 |
| 18 | Feb 16, '24 | It’s put up or shut up time. | 14.2× | 231k | 1.1k | 219 | 22 |
| 19 | Feb 6, '23 | Massive (over 7.0 magnitude) aftershock has just hit Turkey’s south, hours after the original quake. Hard to watch, | 13.2× | 215k | 659 | 242 | 59 |
| 20 | Oct 22, '21 | Lira this morning. (Except there’s nothing to celebrate.) | 12× | 0 | 6.4k | 611 | 32 |
| 21 | May 11, '23 | Kilicdaroglu using the kind of language Russia has not heard from Turkey in a while, accusing RU of trying to interfere in Turkey’s elections through deepfakes and fake videos: “If | 10.4× | 169k | 579 | 76 | 11 |
| 22 | Jun 12, '20 | Summertime social distancing, Turkey. | 9.7× | 0 | 5.8k | 256 | 22 |
| 23 | Mar 24, '25 | Eine kleine Nachtmusik - from Istanbul | 9.6× | 156k | 1.7k | 336 | 84 |
| 24 | Jun 7, '23 | It’s not the lira’s plunge since the Turkish elections that’s shocking. What’s shocking is the lengths to which the central bank went to control the exchange rate ahead of election | 9.4× | 153k | 567 | 148 | 8 |
| 25 | Dec 8, '24 | Can’t overstate how big a deal Assad’s collapse is for Turkey, for now. 1. instead of the threat of another Syrian refugee crisis, Turkey senses prospect of mass returns. 2. any gr | 8.6× | 139k | 927 | 158 | 112 |
| 26 | Aug 7, '18 | Yesterday the Turkish lira suffered its worst daily loss (in net terms) since 2001. Practically no Turkish newspaper dares to cover this on its front page. | 8.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 1.4k | 6 |
| 27 | Mar 1, '23 | Also, amid the ruins: | 7.8× | 127k | 1.5k | 103 | 15 |
| 28 | May 14, '23 | 88% turnout reported in elections in Turkey, a number that puts most western counties to shame. Elections here have become perhaps the last valve for dissent - but do not let anyon | 7.8× | 127k | 619 | 118 | 18 |
| 29 | Sep 22, '23 | Best news Turkey has had from Capitol Hill in a while. | 7.7× | 124k | 610 | 71 | 36 |
| 30 | Sep 2, '21 | Mikis Theodorakis, who taught us to dance | 7.6× | 0 | 2.9k | 856 | 78 |
| 31 | Apr 17, '20 | Take one of the world’s most stunning cities, and add a month’s worth of unpolluted air. Result: | 7.6× | 0 | 3.5k | 526 | 49 |
| 32 | Mar 6, '23 | There are known knowns, there are known unknowns, there are unknown unknowns, and then there’s Turkish opposition politics. | 7.2× | 116k | 1k | 138 | 15 |
| 33 | Aug 13, '20 | Amazing scenes out of Belarus this evening | 6.9× | 0 | 2.8k | 697 | 40 |
| 34 | Apr 10, '20 | Scenes from Istanbul this evening. Maybe - just maybe - giving people two hours notice before imposing a weekend curfew in a city of 16 million was not the brightest idea: | 6.8× | 0 | 2k | 930 | 44 |
| 35 | Feb 8, '23 | Bear in mind, as Turkey restricts access to Twitter, that people trapped under the rubble have been using Twitter for days to share their location and call out for help. | 5.7× | 93k | 717 | 195 | 6 |
| 36 | Nov 18, '21 | Turkey’s currency meltdown, a recent history Time it took the lira to go from 7 to 8 to the dollar: 27 months From 8 to 9 to the dollar: 11.5 months From 9 to 10 to the dollar: 1 m | 5.4× | 0 | 2k | 569 | 65 |
| 37 | Mar 30, '19 | State broadcaster interviews Erdogan ahead of local elections. First interview question: "You held eight rallies today. It is your love for the people that gives you such energy, r | 5.1× | 0 | 1.5k | 486 | 13 |
| 38 | Mar 27, '18 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan (5492 days in office, first as PM and now as president) has just passed Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (5491) as the longest-serving leader in Turkey’s modern history. | 4.7× | 0 | 888 | 875 | 5 |
| 39 | Aug 30, '20 | 98 years ago today, Kemal Ataturk and his army won a decisive last battle in Turkey’s independence war against Greece. Eleven years later, Eleftherios Venizelos, the Greek prime mi | 4.7× | 0 | 2k | 444 | 73 |
| 40 | Apr 29, '18 | A Turkish football fan (Denizlispor) was banned from his team’s stadium for a year. So he rented a crane. Via @BirGun_Gazetesi | 4.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 602 | 5 |
| 41 | Feb 2, '21 | Navalny, moments before he is sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, draws a heart (for his wife Yulia) on the glass separating him from the rest of the courtroom. | 4.3× | 0 | 1.7k | 454 | 31 |
| 42 | Oct 25, '21 | Turkey’s 2022-2024 economic program (published last month) assumed the following dollar exchange rates for the lira 2021: 8.30 2022: 9.27 2023: 9.77 2024: 10.27 The lira reached 20 | 3.8× | 0 | 1.6k | 304 | 27 |
| 43 | Mar 27, '25 | Earlier today, Turkish authorities deported BBC correspondent Mark Lowen, who was here to report on the ongoing protests. Mark was taken from his hotel and detained for 17 hours, b | 3.4× | 55k | 677 | 284 | 31 |
| 44 | Oct 16, '19 | Hard to argue with Erdogan here: "Right now, four million refugees are in Turkey. Let us not forget, almost all of these refugees are Arab... I want to ask the members of the Arab | 3.2× | 0 | 1.3k | 351 | 17 |
| 45 | Jul 10, '20 | It’s official: a court in Turkey has just ruled to convert the nearly 1500 year old Hagia Sophia (a church under the Byzantines, a mosque under the Ottomans, and a museum under the | 3.1× | 0 | 616 | 439 | 33 |
| 46 | Nov 2, '20 | Another small miracle: 65 hours after the Izmir quake (death toll has reached 79), a 3 year old girl is pulled alive from the rubble. Rescue worker and journalist both burst into t | 3.1× | 0 | 1.5k | 210 | 16 |
| 47 | Feb 21, '22 | Turkey’s foreign ministry calls Russia’s move “a clear violation of Ukraine's political unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.” “We find Russia’s decision unacceptable and r | 3.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 284 | 34 |
| 48 | Jan 8, '15 | Istanbul, near Taksim Square, happening now | 3.0× | 0 | 464 | 746 | 0 |
| 49 | Jan 11, '21 | Spot on. | 3.0× | 0 | 1.3k | 188 | 40 |
| 50 | Feb 13, '23 | These guys, from Hungary’s disaster management agency, worked alongside Turkish Air Force pilots to save lives in Kahramanmaras, and ended up exchanging badges. | 2.9× | 46k | 448 | 19 | 2 |
| 51 | Mar 24, '25 | “When Wall Street banks and hedge funds gathered in Istanbul last Wednesday with a top Turkish economist, they were prepared to hear about the country’s improved stability. Then th | 2.8× | 46k | 467 | 131 | 81 |
| 52 | Apr 29, '22 | Million dollar smiles, billion dollar handshake. | 2.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 154 | 14 |
| 53 | Oct 17, '19 | Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu just now: "We will suspend the Peace Spring operation for 120 hours for the PKK/YPG to withdraw. This is not a ceasefire." | 2.7× | 0 | 414 | 425 | 9 |
| 54 | Oct 28, '20 | Istanbul’s Chora Church, converted from a museum into a mosque earlier this year, before and after - meaning now. A crying (literally) shame. | 2.6× | 0 | 745 | 287 | 19 |
| 55 | Nov 10, '17 | 9:05 this morning in Turkey, on the 79th anniversary of Atatürk's death. Photos via @Hurriyet | 2.5× | 0 | 991 | 322 | 0 |
| 56 | Apr 3, '21 | Turkish oppositon MP and human rights activist Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu arrested at home after being stripped of his parliamentary seat last week. Over a tweet. | 2.4× | 0 | 778 | 374 | 6 |
| 57 | Mar 4, '19 | Selected Sputnik Twitter accounts, by number of followers Sputnik Poland: 3k Sputnik UK: 8k Sputnik Italy: 8k Sputnik Germany: 20k Sputnik France: 63k Sputnik Mundo: 71k Sputnik Ja | 2.4× | 0 | 763 | 324 | 12 |
| 58 | Sep 28, '20 | In case you’ve lost count, Turkey is now fighting (or preparing to fight) on six separate fronts: at home, in northern Syria and northern Iraq (against the PKK) in Libya (against H | 2.3× | 0 | 633 | 310 | 21 |
| 59 | Apr 15, '21 | Man, that sofa is cursed. | 2.3× | 0 | 1.3k | 85 | 10 |
| 60 | Feb 21, '22 | Translation: Putin has just ordered the second (after Crimea) partition of Ukraine. | 2.2× | 0 | 703 | 307 | 30 |
| 61 | Feb 27, '20 | Turkish protesters in front of the Russian consulate in Istanbul tonight, chanting: “Killer Russia, killer Putin” | 2.2× | 0 | 474 | 375 | 8 |
| 62 | Jan 6, '21 | Bogazici’s new rector, an Erdogan appointee, said yesterday he loved Metallica and hard rock. Students today: | 2.2× | 0 | 1k | 150 | 35 |
| 63 | Oct 22, '19 | Spot the difference | 2.2× | 0 | 777 | 254 | 11 |
| 64 | Dec 30, '21 | “The US Federal Reserve does not belong to the public… it belongs to five families.” That’s Turkey’s finance minister speaking. | 2.2× | 0 | 868 | 155 | 22 |
| 65 | Mar 30, '22 | Chew on this. Share of Turks who say Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine: 33.7% Share who say the US and NATO are responsible: 48.3% | 2.1× | 0 | 540 | 200 | 30 |
| 66 | Apr 11, '20 | Turkish medical and humanitarian aid deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic: a map | 2.1× | 0 | 839 | 241 | 6 |
| 67 | Aug 15, '20 | Biden could not have done Erdogan a bigger favor (and Turkey’s opposition a bigger disservice) than this nonsense | 2.0× | 0 | 907 | 111 | 31 |
| 68 | Jun 23, '18 | Another massive turnout at a Muharrem Ince rally, this time in Istanbul. Photo via @t24comtr | 1.9× | 0 | 681 | 233 | 3 |
| 69 | Mar 29, '25 | As for the rally itself: | 1.9× | 30k | 1k | 72 | 33 |
| 70 | May 8, '18 | “If my nation says tamam (enough), I will stand aside,” Erdogan says in a speech earlier today. Turkish Twitter: | 1.8× | 0 | 570 | 258 | 0 |
| 71 | Apr 15, '19 | Apparently, the Turkish finance minister’s meeting with investors in D.C. was either “very fruitful” or “an absolute sh**show” | 1.8× | 0 | 580 | 234 | 8 |
| 72 | Nov 5, '21 | Unseasonably warm November day on the Golden Horn. Someone decided to celebrate. | 1.7× | 0 | 982 | 62 | 8 |
| 73 | Jan 7, '17 | Istanbul earlier today. The greatest city in the world, no matter what. | 1.7× | 0 | 592 | 251 | 0 |
| 74 | Nov 11, '20 | Dr. Sahin said he and Dr. Türeci learned about efficacy data on Sunday night and marked the moment by brewing Turkish tea at home. | 1.7× | 0 | 732 | 131 | 12 |
| 75 | Mar 20, '21 | One of the indisputable joys of writing for a weekly from Turkey is watching your stories age like fine wine... in a microwave. | 1.7× | 0 | 837 | 113 | 11 |
| 76 | Aug 30, '20 | Belarus: a group of women literally overpower Lukashenko’s thugs to save a young man from being arrested. | 1.6× | 0 | 613 | 186 | 10 |
| 77 | Jan 25, '22 | When you cannot evacuate stranded passengers (demanding accommodation) but can bus in riot police. Istanbul airport. | 1.6× | 0 | 694 | 146 | 6 |
| 78 | Dec 16, '20 | Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci: FT’s people of the year | 1.6× | 0 | 757 | 116 | 4 |
| 79 | Feb 13, '21 | Galata Square: this was inevitable. | 1.5× | 0 | 582 | 49 | 11 |
| 80 | Feb 29, '20 | With Turkish drones pulverizing Syrian regime forces in Idlib, time to repost @UmarFarooq_’s excellent piece on Turkey’s UAV program | 1.5× | 0 | 459 | 193 | 56 |
| 81 | Dec 26, '19 | Istanbul residents queue in the rain to appeal against the Kanal Istanbul project after government publishes environmental impact assessment report (and opens it to public review f | 1.5× | 0 | 619 | 156 | 7 |
| 82 | Oct 21, '21 | Turkey grey-listed by the Financial Action Task Force Erdogan threatens to expel 10 Western ambassadors Lira plummets to record low after shock 200 bps rate cut All in a day’s work | 1.5× | 0 | 623 | 126 | 5 |
| 83 | Mar 20, '21 | An insane night, even by Turkey’s own standards: Erdogan sacks the central bank governor a day after he imposes a much needed interest rate hike | 1.4× | 0 | 542 | 176 | 5 |
| 84 | Jun 16, '19 | I guess when you go 17 years without an election debate, this is the election debate that you get. | 1.4× | 0 | 700 | 92 | 5 |
| 85 | Mar 5, '22 | Davide Martello, of Gezi Park fame, has just turned up on the Polish border with Ukraine. And says hello to his Turkish friends. | 1.4× | 0 | 608 | 113 | 19 |
| 86 | Dec 17, '21 | Lira as high as 16.23 this morning. That awful sound you’re hearing is the collapse of Turkey’s middle class. | 1.3× | 0 | 568 | 115 | 4 |
| 87 | Oct 29, '19 | The genocide is a matter of almost universal consensus among historians. But this resolution has much less to do with historical truth than with the sorry state of US-Turkey relati | 1.3× | 0 | 431 | 181 | 8 |
| 88 | Oct 24, '21 | Of the ten countries whose ambassadors Erdogan has called personae non grata The Netherlands: biggest foreign investor in Turkey Germany: Turkey’s top trading partner US: largest e | 1.3× | 0 | 493 | 142 | 13 |
| 89 | Nov 17, '21 | The highest-value banknote in circulation in Turkey is now worth barely over $19. | 1.3× | 0 | 539 | 111 | 4 |
| 90 | Dec 14, '22 | Meral Akşener, speaking alongside Imamoglu: “Years ago, there was a mayor here who was convicted for reading a poem. He called out to you from here and said, ‘This song does not en | 1.3× | 0 | 575 | 89 | 25 |
| 91 | Jun 14, '18 | This is getting weird. | 1.3× | 0 | 504 | 125 | 3 |
| 92 | Oct 30, '17 | Istanbul street dog joins protest against municipal dogcatchers | 1.3× | 0 | 522 | 140 | 0 |
| 93 | Mar 31, '20 | Problem solved. | 1.3× | 0 | 473 | 128 | 5 |
| 94 | Feb 27, '22 | In the war in Syria, the worst humanitarian crisis since WW2, it took two years before the number of refugees in Turkey reached 220,000. Almost as many (213,000) Ukrainians have cr | 1.2× | 0 | 416 | 159 | 24 |
| 95 | Nov 4, '20 | COVID strategy: stop testing. Election strategy: stop counting. | 1.2× | 0 | 593 | 92 | 1 |
| 96 | Aug 7, '21 | Uighur activists join firefighting efforts in Turkey, via @nevsinmengu | 1.1× | 0 | 588 | 60 | 1 |
| 97 | Jul 31, '20 | Güle güle Huysuz | The queen is dead | 1.0× | 0 | 527 | 55 | 10 |
| 98 | Mar 21, '22 | Last night, the girl who sang from “Frozen” at a bomb shelter in Kyiv sang the Ukrainian national anthem at a charity concert in Poland | 1.0× | 0 | 398 | 100 | 15 |
| 99 | Nov 8, '20 | Turkey and Albayrak: the biggest resignation in years and not a single sound byte from a single major TV channel - except Haberurk - or news agency. Basically waiting to be told ho | 1.0× | 0 | 437 | 80 | 3 |
| 100 | Jan 24, '22 | Snow and Istanbul. Boy and his cat. | 0.9× | 0 | 529 | 12 | 2 |
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