AKP is trying to send in far-left provocateurs to delegitimize the protests.. getting super desperate 
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Yeah, Canada. You may not know about Canada, but just about no one here considers this country to be well governed. A bunch of incompetents are slowly but surely driving this country into the ground at both the Provincial and Federal level.....its always funny when someone speaks like that while living the best countries such as, let me check.. Canada.
I do not participate in discussions concerning Turkey's internal affairs. I am not a Turkish citizen, so I avoid discussing Turkish politicians, especially opposition ones. I consider it inappropriate. I fully agree with our colleague's post about Turkey's foreign policy. By the way, if you do not know, we act in concert with Turkey on many foreign policy issues.Who the fuck gave this an "excellent post" rating and why are they a TTA?
You can't turn a secular nation into one ruled by sharia law overnight. That worked in Iran with the efforts of western intelligence, but would never work in Türkiye due to multiple factors, one of which was and still is to a small extent, the military.
Why do you think the CIA made FETÖ creep into the military?
Erdoğan has been slowly chipping away at secularism, but has failed. The population, the youth in particular, is too well educated in the age of the internet. Erdoğan removed subjects such as evolution from school curriculums and replaced them with mandatory religious subjects... but this backfired and youth wants nothing to do with Islam.
Erdoğan wants to give democracy the rest. Brussels and Berlin can and must do something about this.
Please, our European friends are not disinterested one meter. Of course they want Erdogan gone for democratic reasons.You have to be careful not to lose track of things at the moment. Constant demonstrations, democracy is always under pressure somewhere. In Israel, Serbia, even the USA. And every day the anxious question: when will democracy topple? In Turkey, there is now an answer: now!
You don't have to come up with Western values or morals to make this diagnosis. Leaving aside everything, the protection of minorities, freedom of the press and all the other liberal achievements, democracy means at the very least: an incumbent must be able to lose an election. Otherwise democracy is lost. That is the situation in Turkey.
The arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the most dangerous challenger to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has only one aim: to prevent Erdoğan from losing the next election. This is what distinguishes this arrest from the many others that have preceded it. This time, the fate of the president himself is at stake.
It is hardly understood in this country how upright millions of Turks are defending themselves
Hundreds of thousands are now demonstrating in Turkey against İmamoğlu's arrest. At great personal risk, despite assembly bans and police violence. On Sunday, İmamoğlu was chosen as his party's presidential candidate in a symbolic act. Long queues formed outside the polling stations of the CHP, Atatürk's party. Old people came with walkers, with artificial oxygen under their arms. And the young came.
It is said that 15 million votes were cast for İmamoğlu. It is hardly understood in this country how upright Turkish society is in opposing its president. There are few things it despises as much as attempts to steal elections. The leader of the CHP said of İmamoğlu: "He is on his way to prison and he is on his way to becoming president."
There is a Turkey beyond Erdoğan. And this Turkey will still be there when the president has disappeared at some point. Europe not only has a moral obligation to these millions of people who are fighting for a free life - it would also be strategically unwise to leave them alone now. This is particularly true for Germany with its millions of people of Turkish origin. Concerns about the end of freedom are also pervading German neighborhoods these days, and depressed silence is no longer enough. Erdoğan apparently wants to restructure the country along Russian lines, but Turkey is not Russia. It has no natural resources and is dependent on investment from abroad. The economy is at rock bottom, inflation is still at 40 percent. Yes, the EU needs Turkey, but Turkey needs the EU even more. It needs German technology for its submarines, and there are joint ventures with solar and wind power companies. Most recently, Erdoğan's son-in-law's drone company took over an Italian aircraft manufacturer. There are countless interconnections, and each one is an opportunity to increase the pressure on Erdoğan - to weaken his pressure on the opposition.
Europe's freedom is not only being defended in Ukraine. The demonstrators who are protesting in Turkey, who are taking to the streets even in Rize on the Black Sea, Erdoğan's home, to demand justice - they too are standing up for our common values. Who are we to leave them alone?
I was speaking casually when specifying military dictatorship / tutelage, perhaps too casually. Conservatively referencing the countries political arrangement between the military and civilian government pre-erdogan.its always funny when someone speaks like that while living the best countries such as, let me check.. Canada.
Wrong infro ,real net wages in Turkiye are 600 euro while most averange wages like teachers , police , etc takes 1000+ euros .And by differently you mean in a functioning democracy with a good economy
For people living and working there, Türkiye has the least affordable housing market in the world
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It's important to consider your privilege before coming to conclusions
This is what Ozgur Ozel wants; pure chaos
The jihadists attacked a woman with a spiked club
@Lool @Oublious @IC3M@N FX
how could you continue to support these rats
Yeah disgusting creatures ,we aslo fight russians/armenians and made them with our own hands and blood majority and now they think its their land since 3000 years BC . Aslo some assholes here in forum deleting my comments not respecting free speach right .The overwhelming majority of ethnic Muslim Turks are secular minded people, they really don't believe in religion being forced on anyone. Even when you look at the Ottoman empire, despite being the Caliphate and leader of the Islamic world there was next to no efforts to force anyone non-Muslim to become Muslim, outside the Sultans personal bodyguards.
This is a primary reason why the Turkish state has been flooded with many MENA type peoples, these people are far easier to manipulate and drag into a sharia state.
Just look at the damage done to the republic in allowing millions of Kurdish refugees into the nation over the last 40 years? 2 to 4 million Kurds flee Iraq into Turkiye, they they start calling that land Kurdistan and become affiliates to the PKK terrorists. Could you imagine if such a thing took place in the EU, a million italians cross into France and then start calling the parts they reside in Italy or vice versa.
Do you mean Erdoğan provided financials to any terrorist organisation ? And even worse what ?
Yeah worse, he is SIDING with terrorists who want to fragment the country into many pieces. And worse for all the fucked up shit he did and he is doing right now. I already listed those things in the same thread yesterday.
Yo your enthusiasm of fiction of imagination is unmatched seriously but in a bad way. Your creative power to conjure up imaginary stories, events and narratives are all dumbfounded. Bro let it go. You’re horrible at it. No matter how hard you try.. its going to be a failure just leave it alone.He wants the Turkish society to be divided albeit discretely, while he stays out of focus! Expect more filthy radical islamists to terrorise the streets in response to gays kissing and excessive drinking near mosques while chanting "we are ataturk soldiers" and kurds dancing during prayer times infront of mosques and when historical graves are being vandalised and FETO members spraying graffitti on pictures of July 15 victims and when Mansur Yavas is attacked by his own party members for protesting against DEM's use of kurdistan flags during CHP rallies
That's footage from 12 years ago mate...
Nop, this picture is from current eventsThat's footage from 12 years ago mate...