I agree that Israel appears to be seen as a special case by many countries, allowed to commit whatever war crimes it chooses. I find it shameful that the UK does not stand against this behaviour more actively.
oh come on mate, democracy this democracy that, it's an old trend, thanks to Europe and the USA the word democracy lost it's meaning a long time ago. We see how democracy works in European countries when some countries remove and arrest a possible winning candidate just because they are close to right wing.
In true sense of democracy no such thing should be allowed to occur. Can you give an example in Western Europe where it has taken place please?
You have your views on democracy. I have my mine, which I have shared with my prime minister regarding the supply of Eurofighter to Turkiye.
And i again i'm repeating what i said, those words have no meanings because they are not honest in goverment levels, i don't doubt you have honest views while stating those as a person about democracy, but certain countries can't talk about democracy one day and stage a coup in a random country the next day. I'm in no way in support of what is happening in Turkey nor do i like Erdogan due to my ideological views, but the hypocrisy is out there.
In a threat(Russia,economy) situations they dont give a fuck about democracy,dictatorship,human rights etc.
I am not really in a position to research those pretexts for arrest. Don't speak Turkish and even if I did, the press is largely in Erdogan's pocket, isn't it? Hearing that journalists who oppose Erdogan are arrested in Turkiye also means that I would not be able to hear both sides of the story.
Since you asked for an example, Biden tried to have Trump arrested. Not to mention all the pardons he granted to his family members. Weaponization of the Justice Department is a common topic in the US these days with many examples to choose from. In Europe we saw the cancellation of the election in Romania and then banning of the winning candidate from running again. While Romania is not Western Europe, it was applauded by Western European countries. JD Vance was right about Europe becoming more and more authoritarian. The UK, to give an example about where our friend is writing from, arrests people for posts on social media or for praying outside abortion clinics. It just banned Apple’s end to end encryption so it can access private data of its citizens, a first in the world. Whatever you think of Turkeys faults - and I might agree about most - they don’t have it much better.
Agreed, the UK fails to provide the social services it has promised to supply to its people. With respect, I do not see that as anywhere near as serious as trying to undermine the UK's democracy.
How would anyone know what is going on in a country where the press is not free?
He didn't, that is a gross misrepresentation of what happened. DoJ was investigating Trump, rightfully, for his role in January 6 insurrection AND having highly classified documents in his fucking bathroom in his publicly accessible club. And the only reason he pardoned his family was because Trump quite literally talked about going after them during his campaign multiple times. It wasn't tactful, but it wasn't because he was trying to hide something. Even Hunter Biden's trial and sentence was blown way out of proportion because of who he was, there were multiple examples given at the time how his case would've turned out if it wasn't politicized because it was just about owning a gun and nothing else.
Everybody is entitled to their wrong opinion and you are clearly using that right fully. My point was that Western countries have their own authoritarian tendencies and if you are of the rabid US Democrat variety as your post indicates, you might agree with me that Trump exhibits authoritarianism as well.
Your reading comprehension needs work mate. Trump broke the law, period. If you even question this, you're either woefully uninformed of what happened, or, wilfully ignorant to believe lies about it. It wasn't Biden, as you suggested, but it was Department of Justice that investigated him, as it is their job to do so, there was nothing authoritarian about it at all. What is happening in Turkey right now and what happened in US then has no similarity whatsoever.
the fucking CB has burned $28billions in four days. If it continued like this, I'd be surprised if we had any dollars to pay our energy imports, let alone buying any expensive fighter jets.
True, a lot of foreign exchange gone on stabilising the lira. As you say, countries will not be selling fighters for lira, so the CB would have to find more foreign exchange.
