Ragip Soylu
@ragipsoylu · Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen
Ragip Soylu is Middle East Eye's Turkey bureau chief.
BIG: Erdogan meets Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas, who is one of the potential presidential hopefuls in 2028 elections. Yavas periodically appears more popular than Erdogan in presidential race polls https://t.co/tgtDWurIqb
NEW: Turkey, Egypt, UAE, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia welcome the sanctions imposed by the UK, France, Canada and others against the Israeli illegal settlements in the West Bank https://t.co/bpACpYpFPb
Amazing investigative work. UAE appears to have hired two North Macedonians who through Hong Kong established four fake news sites to push propaganda against Sudan’s government. Such a rabbit hole
NEW: Suspected spyware attacks target at least three Turkish ministers’ phones • Ankara believes the attempts were unsuccessful, citing enhanced security measures and encrypted applications https://t.co/KvswJgryF2
These two stories were published literally just seven days apart. Finnish hypocrisy on Israel knows no bounds. https://t.co/ZkQO80n8oJ
SURPISE not: Greece doesn’t have access to source code of Israeli systems that would be purchased under Achilles Shield air defense complex, despite Dendias promising to the contrary.
Turkey also proposed to play a mediation role right after October 7th to stop the war and facilitate the return of all hostages but Netanyahu didn’t care.
Turkey wins Women's European Volleyball Championship two times in a row. In 2023 and today https://t.co/MKPNXiYItZ
Erdogan today called MbZ, it isn’t in the readout but presumably to thank him for the pardon for Qaradawi
BREAKING — Egyptian-Turkish poet Abdulrahman Youssef al-Qaradawi was pardoned by UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday, state news agency WAM said, a week after receiving a 10-year jail sentence following his extradition from Lebanon. — Reuters
Really good summary of Turkish attitude towards Hamas by @OmerOzkizilcik. You can’t expect Erdogan to facilitate the release of Israeli hostages and then accuse Turkey of hosting Hamas You can’t have you cake and also eat it too https://t.co/tsQihPZolX
For context, he directly mentioned about “solution” while proposing a total ethnic cleansing of Gaza. https://t.co/6OBLvaPJH3
Israeli Defense Minister just today evoked “final solution” in his speech while wholeheartedly defending a proposed ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Germany, Finland and Greece are happy to back and fund these efforts through their multi billion dollar arm deals with Israeli firms
Netanyahu endorses yet another hate speech against the Palestinians The yeshiva boys sing: "And we will take vengeance, one eye for the two eyes of Palestine, may its name be erased." Netanyahu approves. https://t.co/HqjlrVP3VZ
Same day: • Israeli defense minister calls total ethnic cleansing of Gaza • He doesn’t rule out using force against UK for it sanctions • 2 Palestinian boys killed in West Bank after settler attack • A Palestinian village razed to the ground in WB https://t.co/ONfaQb7I92
Exclusive: Blair asked Abbas to remove 'Palestine' from textbooks, former UK envoy says https://t.co/juzqmLybR6
Israel’s Gaza policy is officially ethnic cleansing and more massacres “when the time is right “ Straight out of the defense minister Katz’s mouth. Greece and Finland must be proud to fund it. Congrats!
I agree take F-35s back from Israel, since Putin and Netanyahu are literally buddies
Turkey’s Defense Ministry shared below promo with Erdogan’s speech: “The actors and structures that were assessed as security threats to our country 20-30 years ago are no longer at a level of power and scale to measure up against Turkey.“ https://t.co/rkpFN4RwsE
The Germans would see this and say they have to support Israel anyways
NEW: Israel warned Turkey against moving south in Syria. It did so anyway • Turkish troops deployed to Deir ez-Zor and built a temporary bridge across the Euphrates, drawing no military response from Israel https://t.co/5LQkrrBZFH
Aliyev jokes to Pezeshkian in Azerbaijan Turkish: Why are you drinking Georgian sparkling water, have some taste of the Azerbaijan one, I brought it from home. https://t.co/nk6V78rFC1
First trilateral defence meeting as part of Mecca accord in Istanbul. Foreign Ministers, Defense Ministers and Top Generals of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey https://t.co/IjPwPZNy5t
NEW: Israel and Greece officially sign €3 billion deal to establish a multilayered air defense system called “Achilles Shield" in Greece: Israeli Defense Ministry https://t.co/IIriwKlGZw
Erdogan, cabinet, opposition leaders, top brass and bureaucrats celebrate Turkey’s Victory Day at Ataturk’s mausoleum https://t.co/6ZCEj4FqNC
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