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Hey everyone! With the start of the new year, I wanted to finally make a new blog! I have had this one for awhile, and kinda just wanna shift to something new! Not getting rid of this one, so I can still look back at it!

Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.

“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”

Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.

The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.

Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.

“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”

The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.

btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.

the minimum marriage age for girls in new hampshire is 13 years old.

48 states allow child marriage.

Do you see how precise the attack was? There are buildings on both sides of the targeted flat and they look almost intact!

The accuracy is quite intriguing when you think of all the flattened neighbourhoods in Gaza and the residential buildings turned to dust, where supposed Hamas leaders were, according to Israel. Nearly 70% of Gaza's homes and about half of its buildings have been destroyed by Israel since October, killing over 20,000 Palestinians in the process.

Israel struck Hamas’s office in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, causing an explosion that killed top Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri and two Hamas commanders.

Al-Arouri was the deputy leader of Hamas’s Political Bureau. He co-founded Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades. He is deputy to Ismail Haniyeh, and heads operations in the West Bank.

The explosion destroyed nearby cars and set fire to the surrounding area. The area is known Hezbollah stronghold. Unverified reports say it was a drone attack.

This marks by far the biggest escalation in Lebanon since Oct 7, after Hezbollah intervened against Israel along the Lebanese border to assist Gaza. While Hezbollah and Israel have been trading blows almost daily (except during the truce), it has been restricted to the areas near the Lebanese border.

This outrageous Israeli attack is sure to change that.

Saleh Al-Arouri 👆

"She was only 20." [@/ Adirondalachia on X. 12/30/23.] Breaking: The Israeli military killed journalist Nermine Haboush, along with her child and mother, in a missile strike on their home in #Gaza City ! [@/ NourNaim88 on X.]

The IOF killed another journalist. Her name is Nermine Haboush, and above is a picture of her -may Nermine rest in peace and power.

They have destroyed their army, and received reservists twice and still employed mercenaries, and STILL they pulled all 5 of their brigades out of Ghazzah. Their tanks are destroyed, their artillery is destroyed, they depleted their shells and missiles 3 or 4 times and had to be replenished by the settler colony known as the United States.

And then Hezb and Yemen joined. And their economy is now crashing, and they are no longer occupying Southern Lebanon. Their own psychotherapists are fleeing to England because of the workload they're anticipating.

so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it

literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪

DJ's Survival Fund — 0/$3.5k

hi i'm dylan. i'm your local struggling disabled transbi blak australian idiot. you may know me from my greatest hits such as "everything is so expensive and i am so scared" and "i can't afford to get to fucking work" and it's sequel, "i'm too sick to work now" and i need assistance with the following:

- school fees (i am returning to uni as abstudy is more stable for me)

- moving and rent (my lease ends in a few months and cannot be renewed. this is incredibly time sensitive)

- debt repayment (from previous tafe fees, as well as debt ive had to take on for survival over the past few months)

- medication, appointments (particularly specialist mental health and rheumatology so i can pursue the disability support pension)

- visa stuff (long story, willing to explain if necessary but it's quite personal)

- seizing my car from my abusive family

after further review i realised $1.5k would barely cover my debt, so i've adjusted my needs and goals.

i can take both paypal and stripe donations through ko-fi, but i can also draw, edit (e.g. i can edit comic/manga/anime screencaps), make graphics, design characters, etc. and am willing to do these for payment as well!

and for what it's worth, my birthday is coming up soon?

please don't tag this as anything.

full sob story under the cut, tw for abuse and sa

Oh yeah, the Irgun? Haganah? Lehi? All of these literal terrorist gangs made up what we know today as the IDF. Before that, they carried out terrorist attacks against the British as well as commit massacres against Palestinians such as the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948.

All of their terrorist acts are well documented and can verrrry easily be found if you look them up. For instance, the Lehi's focus was literally assassinations of British officials and the Irgun was in fact regularly described as a terrorist organisation in US media outlets, and they were all also described as "terrorist organisations" in official British and UN documents that detail their terrorist activities.

To add, the leaders of these terrorist groups later became Israel's prime ministers (David Ben-Gurion, Menahem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir).

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

resharing from aljazeeraenglish:

“No celebration until liberation!” As the world ushered in a new year, hundreds refrained from celebrating to instead call for a #ceasefire in #Gaza