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Umit Ozturk

@umitozturk

Editor, broadcaster, poet, playwright, linguist. Creative writing and media trainer. Coordinator @euromernet. Loves philosophy, cinema, and.. cats! β€πŸ•ŠβœŠπŸˆπŸΎ

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We're in Belfast for a symposium in loving memory of #LyraMcKee. An excellent panel of speakers discusses the theme of the evening: "AI & Journalism - Opportunity or Threat?" Let's hope that threats won't outweigh the opportunities. Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

We're in Belfast for a symposium in loving memory of #LyraMcKee. An excellent panel of speakers discusses the theme of the evening: "AI & Journalism - Opportunity or Threat?" 
Let's hope that threats won't outweigh the opportunities. 
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Fitting to mark World Press Freedom Day by unveiling of Lyra McKee picture by NUJ Belfast & District Branch in The Reporter Bar, Union St, Belfast Where we raised a toast to press freedom and remembered all murdered journalists Lyra joins an illustrious list of NUJ members

Fitting to mark World Press Freedom Day by unveiling of Lyra McKee picture by <a href="/NUJBelfast/">NUJ Belfast & District Branch</a> in  The Reporter Bar, Union St, Belfast Where we raised a toast to press freedom and remembered all murdered journalists Lyra joins an illustrious list of <a href="/NUJofficial/">NUJ</a> members
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We were honoured on #WorldPressFreedomDay to have a photo placed on the wall of The Reporter Bar in Belfast by Nicola, the sister of our much missed colleague #LyraMcKee. Thanks to Cory and all the staff in the Reporter and to Jess for donating a photo she took of Lyra.

We were honoured on #WorldPressFreedomDay to have a photo placed on the wall of The Reporter Bar in Belfast by Nicola, the sister of our much missed colleague #LyraMcKee. Thanks to Cory and all the staff in the Reporter and to Jess for donating a photo she took of Lyra.
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Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay Love, peace, and solidarity with colleagues around the world. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ #PressFreedom #WPFD2025 #JournalismIsNotACrime

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay
Love, peace, and solidarity with colleagues around the world. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
#PressFreedom 
#WPFD2025 
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Jan Kuciak would be celebrating his 35th birthday today if he and his fiancee Martina were not brutally murdered by the organised crime in Slovakia in 2018. Happy birthday, Jan. Rest in power with Martina. πŸ’πŸ–€ Love, peace, and solidarity. β€πŸ•ŠβœŠ #JournalismIsNotACrime

Jan Kuciak would be celebrating his 35th birthday today if he and his fiancee Martina were not brutally murdered by the  organised crime in Slovakia in 2018. Happy birthday, Jan. Rest in power with Martina. πŸ’πŸ–€
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€πŸ•ŠβœŠ
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Dear friends; thanks for your lovely birthday messages. During my eternal servitude for the cause of a safer and peaceful future for our planet, cats are the best shields against tiredness and despair. 😻❀️πŸ₯°πŸˆπŸΎ Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ (🐈: my neighbour Ginger)

Dear friends; thanks for your lovely birthday messages. During my eternal servitude for the cause of a safer and peaceful future for our planet, cats are the best shields against tiredness and despair. 😻❀️πŸ₯°πŸˆπŸΎ
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
(🐈: my neighbour Ginger)
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Dear friends, This week, at EuroMernet Film Club, we have a romantic drama and comedy. As the film title suggests, it's about the beautiful, incurable condition called LOVE! ❀️ And the story is told in a film within the film. Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ EuroMernet team

Dear friends,
This week, at EuroMernet Film Club, we have a romantic drama and comedy. As the film title suggests, it's about the beautiful, incurable condition called LOVE! ❀️ And the story is told in a film within the film.
Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
EuroMernet team
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Our new exhibition celebrates the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month (#GRTHM). (2025 theme: β€œWho inspires you?”) The exhibition features individuals from GRT communities in the UK & worldwide, describing their inspirational role models. Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Our new exhibition celebrates  the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month (#GRTHM).
(2025 theme: β€œWho inspires you?”)
The exhibition features individuals from GRT communities in the UK &amp; worldwide, describing their inspirational role models.
Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay. 2025 theme is #BeatPlasticPollution, so we're screening this documentary. Also, on this day in 2022, Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira were killed while investigating environmental crimes in Brazil. We salute their legacy. Love, peace & solidarity β€πŸ•ŠβœŠ

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay. 2025 theme is #BeatPlasticPollution, so we're screening this documentary. Also, on this day in 2022, Dom Phillips &amp; Bruno Pereira were killed while investigating environmental crimes in Brazil. We salute their legacy. Love, peace &amp; solidarity β€πŸ•ŠβœŠ
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Dear friends, we'd like to invite you to our #RefugeeWeek exhibition at Brighton Jubilee Library. The exhibition features photos, stories, poems, and statements by current and former refugees in the UK and around the world. Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ EuroMernet team

Dear friends, we'd like to invite you to our #RefugeeWeek exhibition at Brighton Jubilee Library.
The exhibition features photos, stories, poems, and statements by current and former refugees in the UK and around the world.
Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
EuroMernet team
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Dear friends, we'd like to invite you to our #RefugeeWeek 2025 launch event in Brighton on Monday 16th June: β€œRefugee Week – the First Peek” We will have poetry, music, dance, a panel of inspirational speakers, and lots of Mediterranean food. Love, peace & solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Dear friends, we'd like to invite you to our #RefugeeWeek 2025 launch event in Brighton on Monday 16th June: 
β€œRefugee Week – the First Peek”
We will have poetry, music, dance, a panel of inspirational speakers, and lots of  Mediterranean food.

Love, peace &amp; solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Today is the International Day for Countering Hate Speech. Let's say it not only today, but every single day, all year round: #ChooseLoveNotHate Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ #EuroMernet and #NoHateSpeechUK team

Today is the International Day for Countering Hate Speech. 
Let's say it not only today, but every single day, all year round: #ChooseLoveNotHate
Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

#EuroMernet and #NoHateSpeechUK team
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. We pay tribute to all victims through history, but as the overwhelming majority are women and girls, we particularly highlighted them on this year's poster. Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. 
We pay tribute to all victims through history, but as the overwhelming majority are women and girls, we particularly highlighted them on this year's poster.
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Today is #WorldRefugeeDay. 2025 theme is: #SolidarityWithRefugees As the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated: "Becoming a refugee is never a choice. But how we respond is." #Love, #peace, and #solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ #EuroMernet and #NoHateSpeechUK team

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay.
2025 theme is: #SolidarityWithRefugees

As the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated: "Becoming a refugee is never a choice. But how we respond is."

#Love, #peace, and #solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
#EuroMernet and #NoHateSpeechUK team
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Today is the end of #RefugeeWeek2025 At #EuroMernet Film Club, this evening we have a historical drama that reflects the #RefugeeWeek 2025 theme: "community as a superpower." Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Today is the end of #RefugeeWeek2025 
At #EuroMernet
Film Club, this evening we have a historical drama that reflects the #RefugeeWeek 2025 theme: "community as a superpower." 
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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In Germany for meetings with community groups. Magnetic power of my inner "Cat wifi" signal: a 4-eyed kitty face greets me on arrival, then a sticker at a friend's door: "Eat the rich" & a ginger cat sticker at a venue: "Scratch the Nazis". Love, peace & solidarity.β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ#cats

In Germany for meetings with community groups. Magnetic power of my inner "Cat wifi" signal: a 4-eyed kitty face greets me on arrival, then a sticker at a friend's door: "Eat the rich" &amp; a ginger cat sticker at a venue: "Scratch the Nazis". Love, peace &amp; solidarity.β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ#cats
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Feline philosophy: "Be the change... only if you want to." πŸ˜…πŸˆ And here's the academic evidence on how cats themselves decided to change from feral into domesticated cats: you can't force cats to change - they will, only if they want to. πŸ™πŸ˜»βœŠοΈβœŒοΈπŸΎ nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

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Dear friends, Following many requests, our two June exhibitions are back on display at the Jubilee Library until 6th July: "We got the power" (for #RefugeeWeek) and "You are my inspiration" (for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month). Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Dear friends, 
Following many requests, our two June exhibitions are back on display at the Jubilee Library until 6th July: "We got the power" (for #RefugeeWeek) and "You are my inspiration" (for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month).
Love, peace, and solidarity. β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, this week we have a drama-comedy from Germany. The film looks at the stereotypes about refugees. Love, peace, and solidarity, EuroMernet team β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, this week we have a drama-comedy from Germany. 
The film looks at the stereotypes about refugees.

Love, peace, and solidarity,

EuroMernet team β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ
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Dear friends, 24 years ago on this day, 10th July 2001, we founded #EuroMernet!Β  We're grateful to our past and present committee members, board of patrons, over 900 tireless interns & volunteers, and to our partners, funders, and supporters. Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ

Dear friends, 24 years ago on this day, 10th July 2001, we founded #EuroMernet!Β  We're grateful to our past and present committee members, board of patrons, over 900 tireless  interns &amp; volunteers, and to our partners, funders, and supporters.
Love, peace, and solidarity β€οΈπŸ•ŠβœŠοΈ