Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating with the leftist Palestinian liberation groups. In the document, Ocalan presents himself as the leader who could stop Israel from becoming a hegemonic power in the Middle East.

"Israel has been at this for 30 years. For three decades, Israel has been secretly promising us a state," Ocalan said during the meeting, according to the document.

He added that Israel was using the media to encourage Kurds to establish an independent state. "Whoever aligns the Kurds with themselves will gain dominance in the Middle East," he said. "They realized this before I did."

He also described an exchange of messages with then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1982, when Ocalan was based in Damascus under the protection of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.

A series of Israeli governments lent political and military support to Turkey in the 1990s, establishing a close alliance with secularist generals at that time.

But under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the relationship has deteriorated, and Ankara has occasionally accused Israel of indirectly supporting the PKK.

In November, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar openly called for closer relations between Israel and Kurdish communities, saying that his country should reach out to Kurds and other regional minorities that are "natural" allies. Ocalan said the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad also contacted him in Moscow, where he was seeking refuge from Turkish authorities in 1998, telling him they could hide him even in Russia.

PKK's Abdullah Ocalan: 'No Israeli dominance through Kurds'

Since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted last year, Turkey has found an unexpected ally: Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

^{Ragip Soylu (Middle East Eye)}

Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that has smashed June temperature records in Spain and Portugal continues to grip large swathes of Europe.

The savage temperatures are believed to have claimed at least three lives, including that of a small boy who is thought to have died from heatstroke while in a car in Catalonia’s Tarragona province on Tuesday afternoon.

In Palermo, Sicily, a 53-year-old woman died on Monday after fainting while walking along a street. She had reportedly suffered from a heart condition.

Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe

June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heat

^{Angela Giuffrida (The Guardian)}

So, I still receive telemetry information from my old lease car, a Kia e-Niro, to my app. A huge, HUGE privacy issue.

I made sure to remove my profile from the car before turning it in, and doing a factory reset of the car's software.

I can see everything, AC, whether there are doors open, odometer, and above all, location.

Also tried to see if I can turn off the AC, but any commands throw an error, so disabling my account on the car at least did something 😅

I had it in the Netherlands, it's in Poland, and it looks like it's on its way to Ukraine.

Kia, you need to check your security.

Edit:

Holy shit it gets real bad. I can lock and unlock the car.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html

L'intelligenza artificiale Grok è pure diventata un sondaggista per l'occasione. 😂

Secondo la sua intelligenza artificiale, Grok, la nuova formazione potrebbe assestarsi intorno al 5-10%, rompendo così il granitico bipolarismo americano.

Elon Musk fonda il suo partito dopo il sondaggio su X: «Oggi nasce l’America Party per restituirvi la libertà»

L’annuncio segue un sondaggio lanciato dal miliardario il 4 luglio, in cui il 65% degli americani si è detto favorevole alla nascita di una nuova formazione politica

^{Ugo Milano (Open)}