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Piotr Zalewski
@p_zalewski
Turkey correspondent for @TheEconomist. Occasional bylines elsewhere. Opinions my own. RT = interesting. Email: [email protected]
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined November 2010
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    Ukrainian footballer Roman Yaremchuk comes on as a substitute for Benfica in Lisbon. Watch what happens.
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    Remarkable speech. Addressed to the Russian people, it should also be heard everywhere.
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    Patrick Moelleken 🇺🇦
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    Turkey: Bogazici faculty today, after police detained 159 students yesterday.
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    Turkish politics in the last 72 hours
    GIF
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    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 destroyed buildings. “The message I wanted to give,” he says, “is that life has to go on.”
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    Inflation in Turkey. Seven years ago 55,000 lira got you a car. Today it gets you a phone.
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    Meanwhile, Turkmenistan’s president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has just unveiled a gisnt statue of his favorite dog
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    Andrzej Poczobut
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    Well done Google Translate
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    Pro-Navalny protests in Yakutsk, via @Andrew__Roth Temperature in Yakutsk right now: -52C.
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    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?” NTV: Myanmar quake Habertürk: urban renewal Ahaber: yummy treats for the Eid holiday
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    Beirut today. This is so hard to watch.
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    ABC News
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    Lira this morning. (Except there’s nothing to celebrate.)
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    Summertime social distancing, Turkey.