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🇹🇷❌🇹🇷❗️ — 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.

🏳💬⚡️📍🇸🇦 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"❗️ Russian-American talks on ending the war in Ukraine will continue on Sunday, March 23 in Jeddah

The fact that a new meeting of the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States is planned was announced by the American envoy and confidant of Donald Trump Steve Witkoff in an interview with Fox News. According to Witkoff, the parties will have to work out some details. The envoy also said that he hopes for the consent of the Ukrainians regarding a 30-day cessation of attacks on energy infrastructure.

Witkoff did not explain what details would be the subject of negotiations. It is likely that he is talking about the demands for a ceasefire that Russia has put forward. After a telephone conversation with Putin, US President Donald Trump responded to the question of why Putin agreed to an immediate end to attacks on energy facilities, but not a complete ceasefire:

"There are a lot of weapons pointed at each other right now. And a ceasefire, unless we go a little further, would be difficult."

Trump did not reveal the exact meaning of his words. They could mean that Putin convinced the American president of the need to discuss a set of conditions under which a cease-fire could be possible."

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🗣🤝🗣 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"Emmanuel Macron to meet Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz today to discuss European security

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to include Germany in his “coalition of the willing” to support Ukraine, which he has been forming with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for several weeks.

Macron and chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz will meet for dinner in Berlin. The topic of the talks will of course be the phone call between Putin and Trump, as well as ensuring Europe's security without the US. Ultimately, it is about war and peace and billions of euros of taxpayers' money.

It is also possible that Macron and Merz will discuss the idea of ​​deploying French nuclear weapons in Germany and other EU countries. “I want to believe that the US will remain on our side. But we must be prepared for the fact that this will not be the case,” Macron says.

📌 Critics of the idea believe that France only wants to modernize its nuclear arsenal with other people's money, without being prepared to share the sole right to make decisions on its use.

Merz is open to the nuclear shield proposal. The chancellor candidate told BILD that it is now "more than ever" in Germany's interest to have this discussion without taboos:

"Given the current situation, we need to discuss these issues not only with France, but also with the UK. Together with the US, we need a joint nuclear defense shield for Europe."

The current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on the other hand, considers American nuclear weapons in Germany indispensable and does not want Trump to even suggest the idea of ​​withdrawing them.

Another topic on the dinner agenda is the "White Paper on the Future of European Defense," which the European Commission intends to present. It is known that it will discuss, for example, joint air defense systems. The goal is for EU countries to prioritize the purchase of European military equipment and simplify tender procedures for the supply of weapons and ammunition. This will allow the defense industry to develop faster."

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🇩🇪📃📈💸🔫 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Germany Passes Biggest Debt-Funded Spending Splurge In Its History | March 18, 2025:

"(...)

Late on Tuesday afternoon, chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats, currently in talks to form a government following last month's election, had proposed a €500BN fund for infrastructure and changes to borrowing rules to bolster defence and revive growth in Europe's largest economy. 

The controversial legislation was approved in the lower house of parliament with 513 votes out of a total of 733, clearing the two-thirds threshold required for constitutional changes.

The bill will release defense spending from debt restrictions, creating a potentially unlimited supply of money to rearm to deter Russia, or at least limited by how long it takes for the German bond market to crack because unlike the US, the Euro is not the world's reserve currency. And judging by the recent surge in bund yields - not driven at all by a stronger economy but merely by term premium and fears of even more debt - it won't take too long."

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