Here’s what some of the Turkish journalists I follow on twitter have been saying today —
The Prime Minister said at least 138 people were killed. More than 400 have lost more than a thousand people are expected to be the dead.
— @Selvi_Ozturk
Surely, following the earthquake,Turkey will urged to reconsider its nuclear energy plans, which been one of leading energy issues recently
— @WashingtonPoint#Turkey accepts aid from Azerbaijan & Pakistan, refusing aid fr #Israel, #Greece, #Armenia, #USA among others. #Turkeyquake
— @oemoral
##earthquake
— @HDNER
Report: Turkish inmates escape from prison in quake-hit region
— @WashingtonPoint
amazing… thanks for info! RT @mucokirca: @fgeerdink @HDNER and 50 of them returned to prison after visiting their families …
— @FGeerDink
hashtag #turkey: #evimevindirVan, ‘myhouseisyourhouseVan’: people invite people from Van who’s house collapsed into their home. via @ctnylmz
— @FGeerDink
Hospital conditions in the #earthquake zone via @koraypekozkay twitpic.com/74ns2g #Turkey
— @oemoral
Follow Hurriyet’s coverage here.
Two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a parliamentary building in Antayla, there are tweets popping up concerning a clash between the Turkish Army and the PKK in Antayla Province. A Chief Sergeant is dead and a specialist is lightly wounded.
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Istanbul, Turkey, 1959.
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GET THESE NEWS ROUND-UPS OFF MY LAWN: South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has been snooping around on gmail, Congress “is about to underfund the very tools that will tell them how federal money is being spent,” Japanese swimmers swim to Taiwan to deliver a thank you note, calls are being made for democratic reform in Vietnam, Pakistan’s ambassador to China writes of Pakistan-China trade relations, CFR’s Max Boot makes the case for change in Bahrain, and World Politics Review takes a look at the Turkish Navy.
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“BEIRUT, Lebanon — After trying for months to engage with Syria in an effort to ease the violence there, Turkey’s president declared Sunday that he had “lost confidence” in the government in Damascus, and he stopped just short of calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down.”
— via The NYT.
