🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may visit Syria within 15 days, according to Turkiye Gazetesi. The visit reportedly includes meetings with HTS leader al-Julani, Syrian Turkomans, and performing prayers at the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
To ensure his safety, an emergency air and ground shield will be deployed along the Hama-Homs-Idlib line, with Turkish radars monitoring all air movements.
🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may visit Syria within 15 days, according to Turkiye Gazetesi. The visit reportedly includes meetings with HTS leader al-Julani, Syrian Turkomans, and performing prayers at the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
To ensure his safety, an emergency air and ground shield will be deployed along the Hama-Homs-Idlib line, with Turkish radars monitoring all air movements.
"And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free
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