He isn’t a dictator, he actually survived a military coup, and unlike his nationalist opponents he has welcomed refugees.
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Trail@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoProbably said something bad about their current dictator.
PanArab@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He’s an authoritarian who silences dissent, and the coup has a bunch of questionable bits.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 4 weeks ago
as a turkish citizen, he is a fucking dictator. The day will come when he will be held accountable for all his crimes.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
he is a dictator. stop shittin yourself. if you make your relatives head of the baninking system you are a dictator. a shitty one too as it seems from the cost of living in istanbul. cant mention the genocides against armenians or kuds. total fail in cyprus. man what a loser.
PanArab@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No, that’s nepotism. He wins elections and is popular.
If your criteria is failing to admit to genocides, then every Western “democracy” is a dictatorship, except perhaps Ireland.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 4 weeks ago
Dictators do nepotism. Stop lying. Stop propagandizing.
BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Jailing opposition leader and biggest rival before the election, on made up charges, is not compatible with “elections” and more with dictatorship.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The people who committed the Armenian genocide were secularist nationalists acting during a time of Ottoman weakness.
Can I do that too as a german? Our genocide was a weakness of vienna-afficinados acting during a time of german weakness. LOL. @PanArab is a Nazi pig.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Or maby he was selling some grass
Trail@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I guess that could be in theory, but I would assume that would just lead to a visit in his home rather than a ban of his account.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Probably, but it could also have been incredibly racist and whats worse.
This guy really needs to show what he posted. Why hide that.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah. Fascist criminals like Yaxley-Lennon in the UK cry about their free speech, and when you look at the cases it’s stuff like trying to intimidate juries, or inciting crowds to set fire to buildings containing asylum seekers.
boramalper@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Their account is still available outside of Turkey so check it out for yourself: bsky.app/profile/carekavga.bsky.social
10 posts only, most of which are after their account got censored, so just a couple introductory posts before that’s all. I suspect the government requested its takedown because the account belonged to a politically active person that was influential enough to cause worry.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
If its because hes part of the opposition, its worrying. But Bluesky mentions he also violates their ToS, so it might be worse in some way.
Theres too much missing information to make an opinion, but we should keep an eye out either way for more examples of this.