#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Wildfires continue to DEVASTATE Europe and now erupt in Turkey. The most recent one is in Seydikemer, Turkey.
Just more confirmation of Hanke’s Schoolboy Theory of History: it’s just one damn thing after another.
#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Turkish authorities detained Sinem Dedetaş, an opposition mayor in Istanbul, and five others over alleged building-permit irregularities.
ERDOĞAN’S TURKEY = NO OPPOSITION = NO PROBLEM.
🚨 Another opposition mayor arrested in Türkiye.
The detention of Sinem Dedetaş, Mayor of Üsküdar, is yet another alarming attack on democracy and the rule of law. After Ekrem İmamoğlu and many other elected mayors, this crackdown on the democratic opposition must stop.
Europe cannot stay silent. We stand with those defending freedom, justice and democracy in Türkiye.
@sdedetas@imamoglu_int
#FreeImamoglu #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #Turkey
Sinem #Dedetaş, the young mayor of #Üsküdar, did not lose at the ballot box. She won. However, today she was detained as part of the latest so-called corruption investigation, which is part of an ongoing campaign against #Turkey’s democratic opposition. In today’s Turkey, supporting Ekrem #İmamoğlu and advocating for democratic change is enough to make you a target. Elected mayors are being removed from office one after another through politically motivated investigations. When those chosen by the electorate are treated as enemies, democracy itself is under attack. Europe cannot remain silent.
When a stand-up comedian is arrested in handcuffs as if he were a national security threat, the problem is not comedy. The problem is @RTErdogan ’s fear of free citizens. Days before the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey is exposing the reality behind the façade: critics, activists and artists are being silenced while leaders prepare for the photo-op. NATO cannot claim to defend democracy abroad while ignoring repression within its own ranks. Free speech is security too.
#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Turkey's Osmangazi Bridge toll has risen 534% in five years — from 184 liras in 2022 to 1,170 liras today.
INFLATION = ERDOĞAN'S ACHILLES HEEL.
#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: CHP leader Özel: "The EU's inflation is 3.3%. Turkey's is 33%. We rank 5th in the world for food inflation."
INFLATION = ERDOĞAN'S ACHILLES HEEL.
#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Yesterday, a Turkish court ordered the arrest of two journalists, Hasan Köksoy and Halil Kürklü. They were arrested on charges of insulting President Erdogan and “inciting hatred among the public.”
PRES. ERODGAN'S TURKEY = NO OPPOSITION = NO PROBLEM.
#TurkeyWatch 🇹🇷: Thanks to inflation and an overvalued lira, Turkey’s textile exports have been slashed by more than 23% over the past two years.
Today, I measure Turkey’s inflation at 26%/yr.