What's up with Turkey?

Catfish · 03-24-25, 09:25 PM

Indeed it seems like a falling back to the middle ages and its autocrats everywhere, but the coming... enlightenment will be nuclear.

Otto Harkaman · 03-24-25, 11:06 PM

Who is jailed Turkish opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...ekrem-imamoglu

Skybird · 03-25-25, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Indeed it seems like a falling back to the middle ages and its autocrats everywhere, but the coming... enlightenment will be nuclear.

No, not necessarily, but it will be digital. So bright that everybody is totally transparent.

Jimbuna · 03-25-25, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Indeed it seems like a falling back to the middle ages and its autocrats everywhere, but the coming... enlightenment will be nuclear.

Quite possibly

Eichhörnchen · 03-27-25, 11:36 AM

Another dictator spreads his wings. I've been asking lately - is the world going mad? All these despots in the ascendent, their people seemingly helpless to choose change because of a totalitarian boot on their necks. We've heard the Turkish opposition decrying the lack of a sympathetic response from the British Government - and now their inaction/appeasement bears its inevitable fruit: the BBC's Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported. It's almost beyond belief - but with the way the world id going now anything's possible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/st...-of-mark-lowen

Aktungbby · 03-27-25, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

...their inaction/appeasement bears its inevitable fruit: the BBC's Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported. It's almost beyond belief - but with the way the world id going now anything's possible

...obviously fer 'talkin' turkey" on Turkey

which got Erdogan "all in a flap"

over threat to public order issues...ie violating rule#1 of any dicktatorship: Evryone will think the way El Supremo thinks or else:

Jimbuna · 03-27-25, 12:49 PM

Turkeys only real value other than being a popular holiday destination is the fact it is a NATO member with a land border with Russia.

*ducks incoming*

Dargo · 03-27-25, 01:22 PM

After Ramadan Türkiye will be lit opposition is now on low because of Ramadan after this they will gear up.

Catfish · 03-27-25, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Turkeys only real value other than being a popular holiday destination is the fact it is a NATO member with a land border with Russia.
*ducks incoming*

Of course. Otherwise this is why i wonder how anyone could possibly spend holidays in Turkey.
Or in the US.

Otto Harkaman · 03-28-25, 01:48 AM

Moderate and charismatic, the mayor of Istanbul embodies for many Turks the hope of a political watershed after 22 years of AKP rule.

To keep up the pressure on Turkey’s government, the opposition is calling for other forms of protest, such as calls for strikes or boycotts of pro-Erdogan media or businesses reputed to be close to the government. Opposition leader Ozgur Ozel told a crowd gathered at Istanbul’s City Hall on Tuesday that the crackdown would only strengthen the protest movement. Caught up in the crackdown was Elon Musk’s X, with the social media platform announcing Wednesday it would challenge in Turkey’s highest court a government order to block over 100 user accounts critical of Erdogan’s regime.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/2...umed-autocracy

Dargo · 03-30-25, 11:42 AM

Eid Saeed.

03-24-25, 11:06 PM	#2
Otto Harkaman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 1,189 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Who is jailed Turkish opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...ekrem-imamoglu __________________ "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." -Joseph Conrad USS Pompano (SS-181) https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-pompano-181.htm Last edited by Otto Harkaman; 03-25-25 at 01:23 AM.

03-27-25, 11:36 AM	#5
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,464 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Another dictator spreads his wings. I've been asking lately - is the world going mad? All these despots in the ascendent, their people seemingly helpless to choose change because of a totalitarian boot on their necks. We've heard the Turkish opposition decrying the lack of a sympathetic response from the British Government - and now their inaction/appeasement bears its inevitable fruit: the BBC's Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported. It's almost beyond belief - but with the way the world id going now anything's possible https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/st...-of-mark-lowen __________________

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,876 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Turkeys only real value other than being a popular holiday destination is the fact it is a NATO member with a land border with Russia. ducks incoming __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Otto Harkaman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 1,189 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Moderate and charismatic, the mayor of Istanbul embodies for many Turks the hope of a political watershed after 22 years of AKP rule. To keep up the pressure on Turkey’s government, the opposition is calling for other forms of protest, such as calls for strikes or boycotts of pro-Erdogan media or businesses reputed to be close to the government. Opposition leader Ozgur Ozel told a crowd gathered at Istanbul’s City Hall on Tuesday that the crackdown would only strengthen the protest movement. Caught up in the crackdown was Elon Musk’s X, with the social media platform announcing Wednesday it would challenge in Turkey’s highest court a government order to block over 100 user accounts critical of Erdogan’s regime. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/2...umed-autocracy __________________ "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." -Joseph Conrad USS Pompano (SS-181) https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-pompano-181.htm

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