BA flight from London to Islamabad now bypassing Belarus following Raab's announcementhttps://www.flightradar24.com/BAW261/27cff638
― nashwan, Monday, 24 May 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
What the fuck is going on in Belarus right now? Is this accurate?
Bonkers... Belarussian authorities have granted thousands of migrants from the Middle East visas to visit, and then escorted them to the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, under watchful eye of Belarussian authorities, and stranded them in the cold. https://t.co/ySzHmk7n0l— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) November 11, 2021
Belarus dictator is the pits, but this is some real passive-aggressive shit-stirring.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
This is a good piece on the use of ‘weaponised migration’ as a concept:
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2021/november/eu-the-weaponised-migration-discourse-dehumanises-asylum-seekers/
Both sides are behaving appallingly. Belarus is, at minimum, profiteering from people’s desperation to reach the EU, financially and politically. Poland and Lithuania have blocked routes, had guards violently attack people trying to cross and are preventing NGOs from coming within 2km of the border to offer food and medical aid. This has been going on for months and is only going to get worse as the temperatures drop.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Heavy artillery fire being reported from Azerbaijan towards Armenia. pic.twitter.com/q3uNO4mJHi— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) September 12, 2022
unsurprising timing
― anvil, Monday, 12 September 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
I am not a military or 'border conflict' expert. I am a political analyst with years of fieldwork research in Kyrgyzstan. Since there is a need to explain what's going b/n Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan, I thought to collect here some analysis by my colleagues & myself. A long thread🧵— Asel Doolotkeldieva (@ADoolotkeldieva) September 18, 2022
― borrowed Ostalgia for the unremembered 80s (MoominTrollin), Sunday, 18 September 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Any recommendations for reading on the Turkey/Greece situation? Elections next year and inflation in Turkey eye-watering
― anvil, Friday, 23 September 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/post-2023-election-scenarios-in-turkey
Starting to look at possible scenarios for 2023 here with election 7 months away
― anvil, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2023_Turkish_presidential_election
This has ome around pretty fast, looks like going to a run-off which would presumably then be advantage Kilicdaroglu
― anvil, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:17 (one year ago) link
Seems a bit like Brazil except the ominous upswing for Erdogan now has me thinking he will squeak it (because people looovveee jailing journalists and hyperinflation?).
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
Less than a week to go, bit of a kerfuffle with a bus and some stones in Erzurum.
― anvil, Monday, 8 May 2023 06:42 (eleven months ago) link
Read a suggestion that because parliament is Erdogan controlled, after the run off Erdoğan’s line will be “vote me to avoid split government with Kılıçdaroğlu”. Be v interesting to see what happens. You certainly wouldn’t want to bet against Erdoğan - experienced and has the media and state control to generate his preferred outcome.
― Fizzles, Monday, 8 May 2023 07:00 (eleven months ago) link
not sure this is exactly the right thread for ongoing turkey conversation but as we’re here, roll out the barrel:Erdoğan gives public workers 45 percent pay rise in Turkey’s tight election race
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 09:35 (eleven months ago) link
Greece 's elections following on from this week after next, but its the upcoming Slovak elections in September that look most concerning, Slovakia been heading in a bad direction for a while now
― anvil, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:54 (eleven months ago) link
Not sure whats happening here with delays in certain districts, but looks like it will go to second round as predicted?
― anvil, Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:20 (eleven months ago) link
Looks like Erdogan has this now in the run off
― anvil, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:01 (eleven months ago) link
https://english.nv.ua/nation/lukashenko-pardons-belarusian-journalist-sentenced-to-eight-years-in-prison-50326284.html
That guy on the Ryanair flight Belarus forced to land a couple of years ago unexpectedly released!
― anvil, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 07:01 (eleven months ago) link
damn what's the catch
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:20 (eleven months ago) link
Not really sure! like a lot of things of late
― anvil, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:57 (eleven months ago) link