@MarquardtA "The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same��”
@MarquardtA It is very sad that you have seen this type of response in “places like Turkey.” “These are not countries we should want to be compared to,” you said. The fact is that this is exactly what the U.S. has become right now. ++
@MarquardtA I will answer with Marjane Satrapi’s words: “If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. […] ++
Erdogan “won” reelection in Turkey this weekend only by decimating the opposition through arrests, violence and squashing freedom of the press.
Turkey's descent into autocracy is another reminder that democracy is under assault worldwide.
DO NOT CONGRATULATE.