Writer who roams. Past: @DailySabah, @HDNER, @PortlandTrib, @bfp_news, @thecolumbian
Salem, Oregon
Joined March 2010
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Paris Achen retweeted
The truth about the Washington Post:
Bezos made decisions to curry favor with Trump that made a lot of Washington Post readers distrust the newspaper. It then lost a lot of subscriptions, which lost money. And now he's doing layoffs.
He should sell the paper to someone who will make better decisions and avoid layoffs.
Trump commutes Ozy Media founder's sentence for defrauding investors, including a 10-year prison sentence and an order to pay $96 million in restitution and forfeiture. From the @nytimes
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Paris Achen retweeted
America built some of the world's greatest architecture... and then demolished it.
A thread of wonders that were lost (and why)... 🧵
1. Cincinnati Library: replaced by a parking garage
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Data support the claim that young people, particularly girls, have deteriorating mental health. But they leave room for doubt that smartphones are the main culprit econ.st/42x5h6b
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Another aspect of elections in Turkey that always move me besides higher than 80% turnout: tens of thousands of people volunteering to watch voting and counting and registering of votes.. One of strongest safety nets for limiting misappropriation..
Saat 6’da uyandık. Oy kullanacağımız okula @OyveOtesi ‘nden müşahit olarak geldik. Yıkıklar, çatlaklar arasında oy kullanıyoruz ama umut doluyuz. Önce Antakya sonra da Türkiye umarım yüzümüzü güldürür. Çektiğimiz tüm bu çileye değer umarım sonuç. #hayditürkiye
Paris Achen retweeted
A voter in Turkey’s Sanliurfa went to the polling station with her oxygen mask on
Paris Achen retweeted
I assume Turkish authorities have made sure there are not cats near transformers this time around...
Paris Achen retweeted
Unbelievable: Turkish voter turnout: 93.6%.
#TurkishElections #Türkiye
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Polls have closed in Turkey’s pivotal elections.
Political drama aside, voting stations saw a range of distinctive characters, including the world’s tallest man, a horseback rider dressed like an Ottoman soldier, and hospital patients determined to vote ⤵️
Paris Achen retweeted
While a whole day of voting happened, even relentless campaigning before, it appears this cat hasn’t moved #catsofAnkara
Paris Achen retweeted
Geology professor Naci Gorur correctly predicted Maras earthquake. And then he said the next one was likely in Hatay, which occurred today.
He says next would be in Adana and Cyprus, following the fault line.
Paris Achen retweeted
A strange sound during the earthquake, some called the sound of the earth.
#earthquake #Hatay #Turkey #deprem
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WATCH: Scenes of panic in Hatay Airport as a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the border region between Turkey and Syria at 20:04 local time, just two weeks after two powerful earthquakes struck the area and killed more than 46,000 people in both countries.
Paris Achen retweeted
BREAKING: A 6.3 earthquake hit the Turkey-Syria border, two weeks after the devastating earthquake.
No new casualties were immediately reported but witnesses report damage. Turkey has reported over 6,000 aftershocks since the February 6 earthquake killed over 46,000 people.
Are any short-term rental groups out there raising money for earthquake relief in #turkiye or #syria? Or offering to house refugees? If so, please, direct message me. We at @rentresponsibly would like to help. #vacationrentals #shorttermrentals #airbnb
nytimes.com/2023/02/13/world…
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“Founded in 300 B.C. by a former general for Alexander the Great, Antakya has been around long enough to have been destroyed &rebuilt several times. The Greeks, Romans & Byzantines called it Antioch, &it was a trading center so powerful that it was once the Roman Empire’s 3rd
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“Thursday would also be the fourth night most people in the crumpled husk that had been Antakya spent sleeping outside. Many had lost their homes in the earthquake, while others feared the slightest aftershock could send the remaining houses and apartments heaving down, too.”
One of the earliest Christian Churches wiped out along with entire towns by Turkish earthquake nytimes.com/2023/02/09/world…
An entire family of four from #NYC was killed in the earthquake on Feb. 6 in Turkey. #elbistan #earthquakeinturkey
