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Public outcry, perhaps the president will change his mind on more things related to recent public outcry....

NEW: Turkey and UK sign a Strategic Partnership Framework document today, which will enable both countries “to strengthen their co-operation on shared challenges by working more closely to promote global security increasing co-operation and co-ordination within NATO, including strengthening the European pillar, enhancing defence capability and industry co-operation,”

Development and Disintegration in Ankara's Kale Mahallesi Parts of the neighborhood around the city's historic fortress have been spruced up while others are in stages of severe, planned decay. Does heritage in the capital have to be treated like this? flanor.substack.com/p/develo…

Noooo, who would have imagined those huge hedges taking place before markets open would be part of the US admin and in a position of knowledge?

$760M short on oil. Placed 20 minutes before the Hormuz announcement. This is the 3rd time. March 23: $500M short — 15 minutes before Trump delayed Iran strikes. Oil dropped 15%. April 7: $950M short — hours before the US-Iran ceasefire. April 17: $760M short — 20 minutes before Hormuz declared open. The CFTC is investigating. The ‘peace trade’ was sold to retail. Someone else got out first. Who knew?

An as-yet unidentified journalist tried to send a GPS tracking device to the Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) in an effort to track the ship's movements. An investigation has been launched, the Defence Secretary tells the Dutch parliament

Lets be clear... This has happened before. No increase of chances of armed hostilities, but leaders solidify their internal support. Ten years ago after Mavi Marmara trade boomed between the countries while political engagement was far and inbetween.

The current İsraeli government is so stupid that they tag fucking Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu under their tweets about Turkey 😅😅

It’s beyond hilarious. The group in Syria still using Iranian drones is the SDF - in their January attack on Aleppo - and they’re backed by Israel. At the same time, dozens of Syrian Hezbollah fighters are embedded within al-Hajeri’s ranks, who is also supported by Israel...

Fake news

Still.... Hug your loved ones....

Turkey does not have the economic heft to compete with the Gulf states, but it occupies strategically vital real estate through which existing and planned oil and natural gas pipelines can run. Syria and Turkey could become the gateway for Gulf oil and gas to reach Europe. Damascus and Baghdad have already agreed to revive an existing pipeline running from Iraqi fields in Kirkuk to Syria’s Baniyas Port. There is also talk of expanding the pipeline northward toward Turkey and onward to Europe. al-monitor.com/originals/202…

7/ …the lesson Iran has learned from this war is that holding the global economy hostage is cheaper and easier than anticipated."

Ankara knows very well that if the US leaves (and thats a senate decision) just the size of its force leaves it a huge negotiating position. Hakan Fidan will play this situation like an antique violin.

The real question isn’t whether Turkey belongs in NATO. It’s whether NATO - with a wavering US, a Europe that suffers to defend itself, an active war on its southeastern border, and the Strait of Hormuz closed, can afford to alienate the one ally positioned across every single fault line. Turkey has NATO’s 2nd largest army, hosts İncirlik, Kürecik, and Allied Land Command, controls Black Sea access via Montreux and has had 4 Iranian missiles intercepted over its airspace this month alone. It is the NATO member simultaneously bordering Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Black Sea, and trying to mediate the Iran war. Questioning Turkey’s role is itself not realistic under current circumstances.

I was fired from Anthropic today. I was the engineer responsible for shipping the latest dev/claude-code npm package. Wanting to improve the debugging experience for the team, I decided to include source maps in the release. This resulted in our entire internal codebase being publicly exposed including thousands of files with every agent command, all system prompts, the complete query engine, Undercover Mode, Bypass Permissions Mode, and our internal telemetry configuration. I take full responsibility. I genuinely believed the safeguards Claude Code had built for me would be adequate and it was a serious miscalculation on my part. My actions have unintentionally open-sourced major parts of Claude’s architecture well ahead of schedule. I apologize to the team and to Claude.

When?

Someone has just opened a $17,300,000 Oil short position. Do they know something? 👀

A prank has started in Tehran. The buzzing recorded sound of a flying drone gets the Basij ( the local Islamic militia) to run away.

Nobody's talking about Turkey They should be Iran supplies 15% of Turkey's gas demand via the South Pars pipeline. The latest strikes just put that supply in serious risk Turkey now needs to replace it with LNG. The same LNG that Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China are all desperately scrambling for. The same LNG that flows through a strait that's effectively closed. Every strike creates a new buyer in an already broken market. The LNG scramble just got a new contestant 🇹🇷 And Turkey is not a small economy. $1.5T GDP. NATO member. Sitting between Europe and the Middle East. An energy-stressed Turkey is a geopolitical wildcard nobody needs right now♟️