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David Lepeska
@dlepeska
Editor-in-chief @ jcmonitor.com & ehmonitor.com. Past: @kashmirobserver, @nytimes, @citylab, @eartist_, @nationalcomment & more. Book #2 out June 2026.
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    David Lepeska
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    Jun 10, 2023
    Stunned & humbled to wake up & find my book at #1 @amazon in multiple categories (Political Freedom, South Asia) & top 10 in others. So incredibly grateful for all the love and support. amazon.com/dp/939548120X/ Thanks & huge congrats to @kashmirobserver @VPBooks @FirstForays 🙏
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    David Lepeska
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    Apr 21, 2023
    36 hours after it was posted online, Turkish opposition pres candidate Kilicdaroglu's tweet has been seen by 90M and the video's been watched 25M times. Those are Game of Thrones, Taylor Swift numbers.
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    Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
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    Apr 19, 2023
    Alevi.
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    David Lepeska
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    Aug 28, 2022
    Pro-Greek Tweeters often argue that it's Turkey who's the aggressor and Turkey who's betrayed NATO by purchasing Russian-made weaponry. Here's Athens doing both.
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    David Lepeska
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    Nov 2, 2022
    Turkey, India, China & Brazil are no surprise -- all authoritarians. But Spain, Netherlands, Belgium increasing trade with Russia since its invasion of Ukraine? Shame on these EU & NATO members.
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    David Lepeska
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    Jan 12, 2025
    No Turkey or HTS at West's summit on Syria's future. Just like the days of Sykes-Picot.
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    Constantinos Christofides
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    Jan 11, 2025
    "Future of Syria" Summit in Rome. No Turkey at the table. "If you are not at the teble, you are on the menu," Michael Enzi
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    David Lepeska
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    Jul 5, 2022
    This is wild. India's Aviation Minister does customer service for the country's largest airlines @IndiGo6E in response to passenger complaints on Twitter.
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    Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
    @JM_Scindia
    Jul 4, 2022
    Your luggage has been delivered at the hostel gate. Take care.
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    David Lepeska
    @dlepeska
    Apr 26, 2022
    Truth.
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    Pieter Friedrich
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    Apr 26, 2022
    @RanaAyyub to @mehdirhasan: Americans have a “comfortable and convenient ignorance about what’s happening” in #Modi’s India.
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    David Lepeska
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    Mar 3, 2023
    KK loses to Erdogan in 9 out of 10 models, I'd guess, which means Aksener risked next to nothing by taking a stand. Rather, she's given the opposition new life. Now CHP can either admit defeat on KK and pick a winner, or go ahead with KK and lose, as it would've done anyway.
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    David Lepeska
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    Apr 21, 2022
    "Ukraine continues to fight, alone, against a revanchist dictatorship hellbent on its annihilation. The future of the free world & the post-war liberal world order rests almost solely on its shoulders:" @OzKaterji rollingstone.co.uk/politics/featu…
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    David Lepeska
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    Mar 7, 2022
    Odessa Opera House, in 1942 and today. Sadly, same same.
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    David Lepeska
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    Oct 26, 2020
    Beautiful | The mayor of a Russian village needed somebody to run against him to create illusion of electoral competition, but couldn't find anyone. Finally he picked the city hall cleaning lady. She won.
    “He just needed somebody else, anybody at all, so the election could take place,” said Marina Udgodskaya, the new mayor of Povalikhino, Russia.
    She Used to Clean City Hall. Now, She Runs It. (Published 2020)
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    David Lepeska
    @dlepeska
    Dec 7, 2018
    Around the time of this tweet, @CNN evacuated its New York City studios for a bomb threat. Nice work, Donald. Making America unsafe for journalists.
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Dec 7, 2018
    FAKE NEWS - THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
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    David Lepeska
    @dlepeska
    Oct 14, 2022
    Good morning and Glory to Ukraine’s fighters on Defender’s Day. Here’s my friend Artem after claiming Russian weapons in Kharkiv.
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    David Lepeska
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    Oct 13, 2019
    Trump vowed to obliterate Turkey's economy if it does anything "off-limits" in NE Syria, while State Dept vowed to impose significant costs if Turkey acts "inhumanely". Does this not qualify?
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    Brett McGurk
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    Oct 12, 2019
    Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime. x.com/yenisafak/stat…