17-year-old swimmer and boxer Shayan Hadian is on death row in Iran, sentenced by the regime for “leading protests.”
A kid. An athlete. Facing execution any day.
Share his name. Be his voice.
Hasan Piker's father, Mehmet Behçet Piker, spent 24 years working at Sabancı Holding, rising to the board of directors and position of vice president. Sabancı Holding is one of Turkey’s largest business conglomerates, with a net asset value of $10.5 billion in 2024. Piker’s father was also a founding member of the Future Party in Turkey, formed in 2019.
Piker disputes the notion that he grew up wealthy and privileged; in November 2025, Piker claimed that his father “went broke by the time I got to college, and I was broke for the first decade after college.” Apparently it was the kind of “broke” that could afford a Equinox gym membership in 2013, which cost $133 to $142 a month with a separate $175 initiation fee; Piker likely means “broke” as a synonym for “not earning as much money as I would like.”
@LeorSapir@wpath@CityJournal Actually acknowledging that gender identity is a social construct and still believing in GAC is a jaw dropping moment for me.