🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — Turkish opposition MPs stage a protest at the parliament after Istanbul mayor Imamoglu’s degree is cancelled.

Opposition says it is a politically motivated step

🔗 Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu)

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷❗️ — Turkish media reports Turkish police arrived in Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s residence in a dawn raid, taking him for questioning, just 1 day after he got his degree cancelled by Istanbul university

Imamoglu is an Erdogan rival largely seen as potential presidential contender in the next elections

In a post on Twitter/X, he said:

The will of the people is being dealt a blow.

🔗 Ekrem İmamoğlu (@ekrem_imamoglu)

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷🇹🇷 — Turkish prosecutor accuses Imamoglu, a Liberal Kemalist, of establishing a criminal network for extortion and separately running a political campaign affiliated with PKK before 2024 local elections.

This makes it two detention orders against him

#BREAKING

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷❗️ — Nearly 100 people tied to Istanbul Kemalist mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu have been detained this morning, including other mayors and a prominent Turkish journalist, Ismail Saymaz!

Turkish Police closed down major roads and Taksim Square metro station against potential protests by the Kemalist opposition

#BREAKING

🇹🇷👩‍💻📉❗️ — Major disruption on Turkish Internet as Erdogan government is throttling access to the social media sites including X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube as police raids Istanbul mayor Imamoglu’s residence this morning!

🇹🇷🔥❗️— Pro-AKP Daily Sabah reports Istanbul Governor's Office has announced a 4-day ban on all meetings, demonstrations, and press statements across the city from March 19 to 23, citing the "need to maintain public order" and prevent "potential provocative actions"

🇽🇰🤝🇦🇱🤝🇧🇬 ❗️March 18, 2025 marks the beginning of a military alliance between Croatia, Albania and Kosovo.. Bulgaria is also expected to join in.

📝 We are witnessing history repeat itself, with old alliances and ideologies resurrecting. It is obvious, with this new military alliance, and the re-introduction of mandatory military service in both Croatia and Serbia, along with the resurgence of nationalism in Europe, a war or conflict of some-sort will arise. Of course the mass protests against government corruption only helps ignite the powder keg that is the Balkans.

Reports: Tomas Sablić | Twitter📱

🇹🇷📉❗️ — Turkish Central Bank burned $10bn just today to stabilise Turkish Lira post Imamoglu-detention news.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 After Trump-Putin call, Russia agrees to limited Ukraine ceasefire

A call between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ended with a limited agreement for Russia and Ukraine to cease attacks on energy infrastructure but stopped short of a U.S. proposal for a temporary truce.

The United States said Russia had agreed to an energy and infrastructure ceasefire. After Moscow and Kyiv agree to stop hitting each other's power plants and electric grids, negotiators would move on to a potential halt in fighting on the Black Sea − and then to a full ceasefire and peace agreement in the 3-year-old Ukraine war, a White House statement said.

Trump said on social media the talk ended "with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine. ...

"That process is now in full force and effect, and we will, hopefully, for the sake of Humanity, get the job done!"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/18/trump-putin-ukraine-ceasefire/82512876007/

🇺🇸❌🇾🇪🇮🇷❗️ — United States President Donald J Trump says that Iran has intensified the military leasing to Houthis* in Yemen, warns that Iranian Regime will suffer from severe consequences if it doesn't stops and vows: Houthis* will be totally annihilated

On Truth Social, he said:

Reports are coming in that while Iran has lessened its intensity on Military Equipment and General Support to the Houthis, they are still sending large levels of Supplies.

Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY.

Let the Houthis fight it out themselves.

Either way they lose, but this way they lose quickly.

Tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians, and watch how it will get progressively worse — It’s not even a fair fight, and never will be.

They will be completely annihilated!

* — Designated as a Terror organization by the U.S.

🇺🇸❌🇾🇪❗️ — Renewed U.S. Navy's Naval Aviation airstrikes reported in the Yemeni capital Sana’a as well as Sa’ada city in the northwest of Yemen

🇺🇸📞🇮🇷❗️ — Axios reports US President Donald Trump's letter to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei included a "two-month deadline" for reaching a new nuclear deal

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — Axios on Trump's deadline:

If Iran rejects Trump's outreach and doesn't negotiate, the chances of U.S. or Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear facilities would dramatically increase.