Ase Marit Befring

Midtøsten-korrespondent for NRK i Istanbul, Middle East correspondent, tidl. Europakorrespondent, mor til tre [email protected]

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Erdogan gjør som Putin ti år etter. Skritt for skritt..

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

Turkey in 24 hours:

• Court sacks main opposition leader
• The Central Bank sells nearly $8bn to stop the panics in the markets
• Erdogan closes Bilgi University in the middle of the academic term
• He also bans municipalities from establishing new companies

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

A day after Erdoğan speaks with Trump, he has shut down Bilgi University, among Turkey’s leading private universities, by decree, without explanation. Bilgi had been a thorn on his side. The timing is unlikely to be coincidental. Hours earlier, also after the Erdoğan-Trump exchange, a court effectively replaced the leader of the main opposition party, CHP. It looks like Erdoğan received a green light to turn Turkey into an even harsher dictatorship.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Breaking News:
Morality police are returning to the streets in Iran.

The regime has announced the deployment of 80,000 “Hijab Enforcers” as part of a renewed crackdown to police women’s bodies and enforce compulsory veiling.
A chilling reminder that their war on women’s freedom is far from over.

They tried to break them with batons, prisons, and forced veils, but Iranian women are not backing down.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: White House envoy @SteveWitkoff rejects Hamas' claim that the group has agreed to his proposal for a hostage and ceasefire deal and tells me: "What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable"

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨BREAKING: The Israeli Security Cabinet has decided on Sunday to immediately resume the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza through existing channels, until new humanitarian aid mechanism starts working, according to two senior two Israeli officials said

[Axios @axios]

BREAKING: Trump announces U.S. will remove sanctions on Syria https://t.co/sR61CqO63S

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

BREAKING — Syria’s Al Sharaa to visit Turkey on Tuesday to meet Erdogan

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨A U.S. source tells me the remaining disputes over the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal have been resolved and the agreement is now done

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Italy Set to Free Iranian Wanted by U.S.#hostage diplomacy https://t.co/YTqWCWRXfa

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

NEW — More than 50,000 Syrian refugees returned to Syria in a month, Turkish Interior Minister says

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The first international flight has landed in Syria since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last month, as Syria's planes have been repainted to reflect the new national flag
https://t.co/uUkhcmEvuu

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Sterk sak om massegravene i Syria: I Tadamon sier lokale at de innåndet støv fra de døde, at de alltid visste når regjeringsstyrker brente lik. En som er redd for å stå frem, viser et sted hvor han i 2013 så 23 lik ligge stablet i en illeluktende bunke https://t.co/3I9A7dJuvl

[Narges Mohammadi | نرگس محمدی @nargesfnd]

Narges Mohammadi returned home from Evin Prison with a three-week suspension of her sentence. In the video, she says, “Woman, Life, Freedom” and “Viva Freedom.”

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Jeg prøver meg også på Blue sky. Ganske kjedelig foreløpig
https://t.co/ez2bC9FSF9

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Kaffekoppen kan ikke bli stor nok når man bommer på tiden og kommer grytidlig 4 timer før flyavgang. Washington neste

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

BREAKING: The IDF conducted a targeted airstrike in Beirut against the Hezbollah commander responsible for the murder of 12 children in Majdal Shams, IDF says in a statement

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

Biden kaster inn håndkle

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BREAKING: Biden quits.

[Ase Marit Befring @asebefring]

En skremmende krig i vår tid, der også 20.000 ukrainske barn kan være bortført til Russland #vg https://t.co/r0KYJ9NfMk

[Nour Naim| نُور @NourNaim88]

Journalist Hind Al-Khodari @Hind_Gaza , currently in #Gaza, reports on the horrific crime of the Israeli army bombing an UNRWA school crowded with displaced people early this morning, killing dozens of civilians.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

US reveals it paused shipment of bombs for Israel over concerns it was going ahead with major Rafah ground operation https://t.co/XgCBfZodMP