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📽️ TRT World Digital wins five Telly Awards, earning recognition for excellence in visual storytelling across editing, data visualisation and social impact journalism. Here are the links and the details: #TellyAwards #documentary #journalism

Across Türkiye, crowds gathered to mark May 19, commemorating the moment Mustafa Kemal Ataturk arrived in Samsun in 1919, igniting the armed resistance against occupying forces of Allied forces at the conclusion of World War I that would become the Turkish War of Independence. Now observed as the Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, the national holiday honours both the founder of modern Türkiye and the generations he entrusted with its future. From ceremonies and flags to stadiums filled with young voices, the day carries the rhythm of remembrance, pride and possibility

"I feel like I’m in a prison called the State of Israel" Members of Neturei Karta, Jews who reject the very existence of the State of Israel, live as a small, tightly knit and highly traditional community in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of West Jerusalem, isolating themselves from Israeli institutions ⏯️Watch the full documentary: https://trt.world/cfmn

Rohingya women and girls in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are facing escalating sexual violence in areas under Arakan Army (AA) control, including rape, gang rape and torture, according to a report by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) released on May 14.  Amid mass displacement and worsening humanitarian conditions, the report says sexual violence — and the threat of sexual violence — are being used as tools as part of a broader system of intimidation and control targeting the Muslim ethnic minority group. Sexual violence has long been weaponised against the Rohingya in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, where they have faced decades of violence, including during the 2017 genocide. Nearly a decade later, accountability remains absent, while Rohingya communities continue to face systematic persecution, discrimination, denial of citizenship and severe restrictions imposed by both the Myanmarese army and the Arakan Army.  Sexual violence during conflict violates international humanitarian law and may amount to crimes against humanity, war crimes and acts of genocide.

From shipbuilding to drone tech, STM is the backbone of Türkiye’s defence engineering — building, coding and leading the future in military tech. #TurkishDefenceIndustry #STM

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has published a report on what it describes as “secular pro-Palestinian extremism” in the country. In a new move aimed at cracking down on pro-Palestine advocacy, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) listed a series of symbols it associates with “extremism.” Handala was described as being associated with “Palestinian resistance,” the watermelon symbol was characterized as “denying Israel’s right to exist,” and the term “intifada” was described as expressing “sympathy for acts of violence”

Seventy-eight years after the Nakba, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, Gaza and abroad are still living through its aftermath. On May 15, 1948, Zionist militias displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, villages and land, turning an entire people into refugees almost overnight. What Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, never truly ended. Today, much of the occupied West Bank remains under Israeli control while Gaza endures a relentless assault and mass displacement. For many Palestinians, the scenes unfolding now are not separate from 1948, but a continuation of it.

In West Jerusalem, a small ultra-Orthodox Jewish group rejects the State of Israel — not as a political position, but as a matter of faith. Neturei Karta has maintained this stance for decades, setting it apart from other Orthodox communities that engage with and even support the state in various ways. Here is more on the group’s origins, beliefs, and place within the deeply divided landscape of the Jewish world ⏯️ Watch here: https://trt.world/cfmn

Microsoft is facing one of the biggest tech accountability crises in years after reports revealed that its cloud infrastructure was used by Israeli intelligence for the mass surveillance of Palestinians Read more: https://trt.world/cfmx

The World Decolonization Forum 2026 opens in Istanbul, bringing together scholars, intellectuals, and activists from across the Global South and beyond to confront one of the defining questions of our time: who controls the world's knowledge — and at whose expense?