Istanbul: Moord in de Oriënt-Expres | Murder on the Orient Express


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Foto van Turkse poster voor de film Murder on the Oriënt Express

Istanbul (Turkije) 2014

In Station Sirkeci, ooit het eindpunt van de fameuze Oriënt Express, zag ik deze poster van de film Murder on the Oriënt Express naar het gelijknamige boek van Agatha Christie.

(Van mijn blog | From my blog)

Tags: #film #foto #fotografie #istanbul #movie #orient-express #photo #photography #railways #spoorwegen #station #train #trein #turkey #turkije


Istanbul: Station Sirkeci | Sirkeci Station


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Foto van bovenlicht van stationsgebouw met iets gepunte boog om rond raam en roze muur

Istanbul (Turkije) 2014

Detail van de gevel van Station Sirkeci in Istanbul. Vroeger het eindstation van de Oriënt Express, nu station van lightrail.

De foto van het stationsgebouw hieronder is van Wikipedia:

Foto van de gevel van stationsgebouw (Wikipedia)

(Van mijn blog | From my blog)

Tags: #architecture #architectuur #foto #fotografie #istanbul #orient-express #photo #photography #railways #spoorwegen #station #train #trein #turkey #turkije






EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn


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The Guardian

Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations say.

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The EU’s plan to increase deportations includes potentially sending people to offshore centres in non-EU countries. Photograph: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images.

More than 70 rights organisations have called on the EU to reject a proposal aimed at increasing the deportation of undocumented people, warning that it risks turning everyday spaces, public services and community interactions into tools of ICE-style immigration enforcement.

Last March, the European Commission laid out its proposal to increase deportations of people with no legal right to stay in the EU, including potentially sending them to offshore centres in non-EU countries. (...)

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Tags: #english #europe #fort europe #eu #european union #migrants #deportation #undocumented people #frontex #pushbacks #fugitives #asylum seekers


After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel


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The Guardian

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned. (...)

After decades of documenting state terror, I know how it starts. Governments begin to use words like security, order, deterrence. (...)

What happens when democratic states adopt the methods of the regimes they once condemned? Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive. As the historian Timothy Snyder warned in his 2017 book, On Tyranny, this is how societies slide into danger: people obey in advance. (...)

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Officers arrest an anti-ICE protester in Minneapolis Minnesota, 30 January 2026. Photograph: Craig Lassig/UPI/Shutterstock.

Tags: #english #us #united states #ice #trump #israel #netanhayu #autocracy #arbitrary detention #secret policing #sureveillance #militarised policing #state terror