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@BBCWorld 8 years ago RT @marklowen: Fireworks over #AKP HQ after #Yildirim declares victory. But the opposition could cause some fireworks of their own as they challenge result
@BBCWorld 8 years ago RT @marklowen: 2 #Swedish journalists for @svt detained in Diyarbakir. Both based in #Turkey w/ permanent accreditation. Media climate ever more oppressive
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey purge continues: 1684 military officers, including 149 generals and admirals, "dishonourably discharged" after failed coup
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey PM: This is an attempted military uprising - it will not be successful
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Bomb attack targeting police vehicle in #Vezneciler, #Istanbul. Initial reports of five injured. #Turkey
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Syria ceasefire largely holding but rebels tell us 3 killed shortly after midnight in regime attack near #Latakia, car bomb in #Hama
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Hassan from #Raqqa, now in #Turkey, tells me "humans can't survive there. Nothing works." Airstrikes "destroyed buildings but little else"
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey Chief of Staff to make statement imminently regarding reports of plane shot down near #Syria border. Waiting to hear nationality
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey's most critical election in years is underway. I'm in #Ankara, @selingirit is in #Diyarbakir. We'll bring you latest as day unfolds
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkish media reporting #Cizre curfew to be lifted at 7am tomorrow. Trying to get more information now
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: So the pigeon has flown/fax sent/email written and #Greece's austerity plan is in Brussels. Parliament to debate tomorrow, Eurozone Saturday
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Sılav! Reminder: we'll be at Saraykapı cafe in #Diyarbakir at 1700 today to talk #Turkey election. If you're here, come join! #bbcturkey15
@BBCWorld 8 years ago RT @marklowen: #CHP, #HDP and #Aksener challenge validity of 2.5m votes, say 1.5m invalid votes counted for 'yes' and ballot box observers blocked
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Reports #Turkish-backed #FSA fighters have entered centre of #Jarablus, #IS withdrawn. Extraordinarily quick and successful operation
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Correction: almost 9000 dismissed, not detained. Numbers of arrests still around 6000. #Turkey
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Looks like a major, coordinated attack at #Istanbul #Ataturk airport. Last (smaller) attack at #SabihaGokcen in December claimed by #TAK
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey Justice Min after #Germany #Armenian genocide vote: you burnt Jews in oven then you slander us with 'genocide'. Look at your history
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Erdogan accuses US (ally) of creating "pool of blood" by supporting #PYD and #YPG. "Hey #America! Are you with us or those terror groups?"
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #EU preparing #Turkey migration deal: 3bn€,more accession talks,visa-free travel.But reluctance to reward govt amid concerns for rule of law
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkish officials say notified counterparts in #France about Omar Ismail #Mostefai in 2014&15 but never heard back from Paris until now
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Not much warmth from #EU to #Erdogan but realisation that he holds key to stemming migration. Will visa/accession talks promise be enough?
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: #PKK claiming 15 #Turkish soldiers killed in #Daglica attack. @selingirit in Istanbul following that and reports of raids on #Hurriyet
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: #Tsipras: "we choose to live with dignity in Europe. Democracy must return here where it was born. They don't have right to blackmail us"
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Memo Turk writes "God bless #Turkey & #Erdogan. For 80yrs nothing happened in Turkey. he did things in 15yrs no one can imagine #bbcturkey15
@BBCWorld 8 years ago RT @marklowen: #Erdogan campaign song has started at #AKP HQ in #Ankara. They think here that they've clinched it
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Around 38,000 prisoners conditionally released in #Turkey after serving half sentence. Prisons at breaking point with post-coup clampdown
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey Interior Ministry: number of those detained now almost 9000, including 30 governors
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: At 0930bst, 1130Turkish time, we will be live on @BBCNews Facebook page from #Antalya on tourism crisis. Write questions, comments! #Turkey
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Greek and Turkish officials say boats carrying #migrants back to #Turkey that were due tomorrow have been postponed. A sense of chaos
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: 18 months ago #Turkey let in 200,000 refugees from Kobane. Now shutting border to 35,000 from Aleppo. EU refugee crisis changed everything
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Moments before he was killed, Tahir #Elci was calling for peace: "we do not want guns, clashes or operations here". Then shot dead.
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: French aviation officials tell the BBC they've ruled out possibility of any technical fault leading to crash of flight 9268 to St Petersburg
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Turkish government tells me they can't yet confirm the names in #Hurriyet article. #Ankara
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Little substance in #NATO communique. "Strongly condemn terrorist attacks on #Turkey...condolences to victims...strong solidarity w/ Turkey"
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: #British consular team says around 10 flights to UK have taken holidaymakers out of #Sousse. Others waiting here, angry and keen to leave
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Anonymous from #Turkey asks "is west of Turkey warming towards #HDP (proKurdish party)?" A: yes we've heard some support for it #bbcturkey15
@BBCWorld 8 years ago RT @marklowen: #EuropeanParliament vote on #Turkey symbolic. #EU won't heed it, wary of alienating vital ally. But it's lost practically all leverage here
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Turkey govt official: since failed coup 17,740 people under arrest, 5,685 others remain in detention. Another 11,597 detainees released.
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Utterly unexpected, extraordinary events in #Turkey tonight. Last military intervention 19 years ago. The country thought coups were over
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Update: Governor says 7 policemen, 4 civilians killed, 36 injured in bomb attack. Suspicion will fall on #PKK after similar Ankara attacks
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Reports of airstrikes west of #Aleppo. Activists say target could be #Nusra so maybe not "ceasefire breach". But territorial control blurred
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Kilis border crossing still closed to #Syrian refugees. Hearing from inside they'll be moved to #Idlib, won't be allowed to enter #Turkey
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Head of #Diyarbakir bar association & human rights lawyer, Tahir #Elci, shot dead as gunfire erupted at press conference he was giving
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: Partial results suggest #AKP may have won back majority government. If true, would defy almost every opinion poll. Looks #MHP big loser
@BBCWorld 9 years ago RT @marklowen: #Erdogan stresses 3 goals to beat #IS in #Syria: train/equip policy for opposition, safe zone, no-fly zone. [1st failed, 2nd/3rd v unlikely]
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Previous Prime Ministers expelled MPs voting against party line. #Tsipras can't afford to do that now. Position weakened.Reshuffle tomorrow?
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: We'll be reading out your comments on #Turkey election on @BBCOS @bbcworldservice today. Send via whatsapp +90 5350763939 or #bbcturkey15
@BBCWorld 10 years ago RT @marklowen: Andy: "I've lived in #Turkey for 13 yrs. #AKP turning it into conservative, Islamic country. Anyone who opposes goes to prison" #bbcturkey15