Loads of shit going on in Turkey over the last couple of days, and especially yesterday and last night. Massive demonstrations and protests spreading from a park in Istanbul to cover many other cities.
I have a lot of Turkish friends and my facebook timeline has exploded with anger and reports and so on - social media seems to the forum for this as apparently the Turkish mainstream media is not reporting it (and is suspected of being leant on heavily by the government)
Interesting to hear what Antepli has to say, and if we could coax him back from retirement, David O.
My sense from spending a fair amount of time there over the years, and in the last two years in particular is that the liberal, secular, middle class hate Erdogan and the AKP, but that the urban poor and the rural community are fully behind him. So, what seems to be universal condemnation on my FB timeline (populated primarily by liberal, secular, middle class Turks from liberal cities like Izmir and Istanbul) and on social media in general, may not be quite so universal on the ground.
This has the potential to be big though, and could result in some serious schisms in Turkey (schisms which are obviously already there, but this may be the event that brings them fully out into the open)
I have a lot of Turkish friends and my facebook timeline has exploded with anger and reports and so on - social media seems to the forum for this as apparently the Turkish mainstream media is not reporting it (and is suspected of being leant on heavily by the government)
Interesting to hear what Antepli has to say, and if we could coax him back from retirement, David O.
My sense from spending a fair amount of time there over the years, and in the last two years in particular is that the liberal, secular, middle class hate Erdogan and the AKP, but that the urban poor and the rural community are fully behind him. So, what seems to be universal condemnation on my FB timeline (populated primarily by liberal, secular, middle class Turks from liberal cities like Izmir and Istanbul) and on social media in general, may not be quite so universal on the ground.
This has the potential to be big though, and could result in some serious schisms in Turkey (schisms which are obviously already there, but this may be the event that brings them fully out into the open)
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