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Ingrid Woudwijk
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📰📻📸 freelance journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl and others
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On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:

2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈

And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
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The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
Here is a useful overview of Dutch parties and their stance and voting on Palestine. CDA and VVD are possible coalition parties, so big meaningful steps look difficult if they do become part of government rightsforum.org/kieswijzer-2...
Kieswijzer 2025 - The Rights Forum
rightsforum.org
It depends on what kind of coalition they form I think. Since the bar was incredibly low with two of the most pro-Israel parties in the previous gov there might be some small positive changes (mostly in rhetoric)
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While Istanbul's imprisoned mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been arrested for ‘espionage’, here is a table summarising all the upcoming or ongoing trials concerning him. This is probably the biggest case of judicial harassment in Turkey's history.
medium.com/@Mayis_Sikin...
Table of the main cases involving senior CHP figures in the context of the government siege against…
“Table of the main cases involving senior CHP figures in the context of the government siege against Turkey’s main opposition party.” is published by Mayis Sikintisi.
medium.com
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In the last three weeks at least four Syrian PKK members imprisoned since the mid 90s have arrived back in Syria after their release from Turkish jails

t.me/afrinnow1/1616

hawarnews.com/ar/130679

hawarnews.com/ar/130786
hawarnews.com
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In the space of a year, the Turkish government, via the TMSF, has confiscated more than 400 businesses, including recently around 100 linked to Can Holding. The aim? To finance the AKP's patronage networks in anticipation of the next presidential elections.
www.ft.com/content/5c13...
Crackdown or capital grab? Turkey state fund controls 1,000 businesses
Anti-corruption drive transfers hundreds of companies to a deposit guarantee fund in the past year
www.ft.com
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Crackdown on Ankara municipality: more than a dozen people have been arrested over corruption allegations linked to concerts organized by the municipality in recent years -- btw, Ankara CHP mayor Mansur Yavaş even more popular and dangerous potential rival to Erdogan. kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...
Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'ne konser operasyonu: 13 kişi gözaltına alındı
Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin 2021-2024 yılları arasında düzenlediği 32 konserle ilgili operasyon başlatıldı. 13 kişinin gözaltına alındığı belirtildi.
kisadalga.net
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De Egyptische president #Sisi heeft gratie verleend aan de beroemde Egyptische politieke gevangene Alaa Abdel Fattah, waar ik deze zomer op de radio over sprak. Hij zat sinds 2013 vrijwel onafgebroken vast #Egypte www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/b...
Vanuit de cel in Egypte: tegen dictatuur en voor Palestina
www.nporadio1.nl
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Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
nos.nl/artikel/2583...
Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie
De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.
nos.nl
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Journos and CHP activists tweeting as they are detained by police this morning at the Istanbul CHP HQ
Gözaltına Alınıyorum Cumhuriyeti
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Some thoughts on the most recent assault on the CHP:

1) As the regime's loyalty test with the CHP fails to achieve the desired outcomes, the CHP leadership is exposed to accelerated and aggrevated forms of domination test.
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Riot police have been deployed to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's main opposition and roads around the building blocked as party members rally there against a court's suspension of its local leadership in what they see as the 'judiciary being used as a political weapon'.
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📣 I'm actively looking for new journalism assignments, writing or editing gigs, or other work that uses my communications skills, ideally to make positive social, cultural, or environmental impact. Check out what I do and hit me up if you have projects that might be a match! www.jenniferhattam.com
Jennifer Hattam
Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering culture, environment, social issues, and urban spaces
www.jenniferhattam.com
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The unambiguous return of a single-party state to Turkey will coincide with the final end of the party that built its first such state. I have a lot of thoughts about this, one of them being that we’re here mainly because of the CHP’s inability to get out of its own way.
The Turkish courts remove the Istanbul province committee of the country's largest opposition party and replace them with their own choices
CHP İstanbul İl Yönetimine kayyum!

Başsavcılıktan ilk açıklama
www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/turkiye/chp-...
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Rescuers desperately search for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened by an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 800 people

u.afp.com/SAFF
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Trouw @trouw.nl · Aug 14
Israëls moordaanslag op journalisten is een aanslag op de waarheid zelf
Israëls moordaanslag op journalisten is een aanslag op de waarheid zelf
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