wolf piccoli

Politics & economics in the EU/EZ & Turkey.
Usual disclaimers apply

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Some personal news: after 13 years, I’m moving on to the next chapter.
Details to follow soon, but for now, a massive thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way. 👇

[Riccardo Trezzi @RiccardoTrezzi]

Situazione italiana, ad occhio e croce.

- Domanda per analisi serie: zero.
- Giovani sono pochi, non hanno soldi e nessuna voglia di protestare (zero manifestazioni per il loro futuro negli ultimi 20 anni). Questa è la parte più grave imho.
- Boomers saldamente davanti alla tv e zero domanda per cambiamenti.
- Giornalismo è andato, livello è basso e quasi sempre militante (una piaga perché rinforza i biases delle persone).

Risultato: declino saldamente in controllo. Posizioni estreme sempre più richieste, declino può anche accelerare.

Dove sbaglio?

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Kilicdaroglu's "dream team" - average age is 65y.....all very promising 👇

[Ali Arif Aktürk @AliArifAkturk]

GENÇLER SAHİP ÇIKIN GELECEGİNİZE.

Kilicdaroglu’nun takımının yaş ortalaması. Ortalamasi 65 olan moruk takımı

-Faik Öztrak - 72
-Gürsel Tekin - 61
-Berhan Şimşek - 68
-Bülent Kuşoğlu - 68
-Orhan Sarıbal - 60
-Akif Hamzaçebi - 72
-Müslim Sarı - 52
-Turan Aydoğan - 62
-Mehmet Tüm - 69
-Yıldırım Kaya - 67

Tümüyle degiştirin siyasi çevreyi.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

@ragipsoylu Comedy if not tragic: Erdoğan shuts down İstanbul Bilgi University by decree, students protest for three days then the government quietly reopens it. Institutional governance by impulse and retreat.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

🤡🤡🤡🤡 in charge

[BBC News Türkçe @bbcturkce]

Bilgi Üniversitesi üç gün sonra tekrar açıldı: Üniversitenin faaliyet iznini iptal eden cumhurbaşkanı kararı, başka bir cumhurbaşkanı kararıyla yürürlükten kaldırıldı https://t.co/w3c1D4QdfH

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

The crackdown against #Turkey’s main opposition #CHP has gone into full swing with a new wave of arrests, deepening pressure on the party’s leadership and elected officials.👇

[Amberin Zaman @amberinzaman]

The decimation of Turkey’s main opposition CHP is in full swing. 13 party officials have been arrested in connection with alleged vote rigging in the election of party leader Ozgur Ozel in 2023. Özel was ousted through a court ruling on Thursday based on the same claim. Further arrests are likely with mounting speculation that Ozel might be next. They would join over a dozen deposed/jailed CHP mayors including Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

One possible reason, a land grab

[Nervana Mahmoud @Nervana_1]

Erdogan’s Turkey is now closing universities for no clear reasons!

Turkey revokes licence for university seized by state in “criminal probe”

https://t.co/7ID7wud6Dp

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

No coherence. No predictability. You can't build a global financial hub with one hand while dismantling institutional stability with the other.
#bilgiüniversitesikapatıldı

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

#Turkey’s policy in a nutshell: passing a sweeping 20-year tax package to woo global investors, while simultaneously shutting down a major university mid-semester by executive decree.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

The outcome of the emergency meeting of the financial stability committee: zero details. Press release talks about resilient economy, sound policy framework and pledge to take all necessary steps..... Living in a parallel reality

[T.C. Hazine ve Maliye Bakanlığı @HMBakanligi]

Basın Duyurusu- 22.05.2026

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

However, the message of the last 24 hours is clear: as economic pressures mount, the political space will be compressed by any means necessary to ensure absolute survival of #Erdoğan's regime.
#Turkey #CHP

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Ankara's playbook is running on loop this morning. After a 24-hour blitz ousting the CHP leadership and seizing civic assets, an emergency economic meeting is underway.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

The likely strategy? Blame external factors for Lira pressure, promise phantom reforms, and quiet down capital flight with stealth regulatory controls.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Bilgi today, another university tomorrow. A country that shuts down universities by decree and suffocates academic freedom is a country choosing fear over knowledge. No nation can build a future while dismantling the institutions that create it.
#Turkey

[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

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Great timing for the comedy show👇
Clearly, political repression and economic marketing are out of sync, despite the many years of practice by Erdoğan and his sycophants.

[T.C. İletişim Başkanlığı @iletisim]

Cumhurbaşkanlığı İletişim Başkanlığımız ile Cumhurbaşkanlığı Yatırım ve Finans Ofisi tarafından “Türkiye Yüzyılında Yatırım ve Finans” programı yarın İstanbul’da düzenlenecektir.

Program akışı ⬇️

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

A powerful reminder, once again, of the absolute independence and unpredictability of the Turkish judiciary...
#CHP #Turkey #lawfare

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Pro-AKP newspapers spent days signalling that the anti-CHP court ruling was imminent. Then Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu released a video yesterday declaring “I am here.”
And today, the court delivers exactly the outcome everyone had been telegraphing in advance

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

@bbcturkce The "march to power" says the one who has never won a single election. Tragic.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

At this point, Şimşek will likely have to find yet another “exogenous factor” to argue that his “programme” remains on track; regardless of how often the political cycle rewrites the assumptions underneath it.

[wolf piccoli @wolfpiccoli]

Removing the leader of #Turkey’s main opposition party through the courts in the middle of an investor roadshow in London shows, once again, that #Erdoğan’s personal political agenda trumps everything else.
#Dejavu #sameold #CHP