Denmark recalled its ambassador to Turkey. Other EU countries vary from being disturbed to being deeply concerned I guess.
Coup Attempt in Turkey
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Sweden called its ambassador to Turkey to a emergency meeting yesterday, what has been said has not been announced yet, but it seems that most party leaders have called for Turkey's EU talks to cease.Calradianın Bilgesi said:
TL;DR : Sweden doesn't want Turkey to join the EU anymore.
Said the guy in whose country VPNs are blocked and the social media is rarely accessible
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Tu Quoque, thy name is Admiral Ghost. I really don't see why it is so common for those Turks that come here to "protect their glorious motherland" to regard any sort of criticism toward the current situation in Turkey as an insult to Turkey itself. We're criticising Erdogan and the AKP's policies, not the nation itself or its people.Admiral Ghost said:
To be honest, it only serves against Erdogan to block social media as he does something increasingly authoritarian/dictator-like. These things will get out anyways and he'll be accused of both actions.Calradianın Bilgesi said:
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Tbh at this point I'm just hoping that all this **** doesn't effect the release of bannerlord because let's face it, Turkey is ****ed.
In these situations, always ask yourself "What would Denmark do"
It is nice to have a controlled experiment on how social media affects GDP growth though. I can't speak with my family in Turkey because Skype is banned, but who cares
It is nice to have a controlled experiment on how social media affects GDP growth though. I can't speak with my family in Turkey because Skype is banned, but who cares
With a recent decision, constitutional court decided that it can't strike emergency decrees down for their content. So president can declare a state of emergency anytime he wishes, and do whatever he wants with an emergency decree as long as the process of issuing the decree and declaring the state of emergency was constitutional. Now we don't even effectively have a constitution. In the past the argument was that calling them 'emergency decrees' wasn't enough for being one, if the content of the decree wasn't relevant to the emergency situation, constitutional court could strike it down. Now they said they won't even do this anymore. If Erdogan wishes, he can abolish constitutional court with an emergency decree, and the court can do nothing about it.
A car bomb attack in Diyarbakir left 8 people dead. Government says it was PKK, ISIS says it was ISIS. It is reported that the attack was very close to the police station in which HDP MPs(including co-chairs) were held, and it is said that car bomb's collision with a taxi on the way prevented an attack to that police station
So Erdogan is now suing every single delegate of the CHP for "severe insults", huh?
He ain't even trying to be sneak any more
He ain't even trying to be sneak any more
Swissky
Turkish police just arrested two Swedish journalists, one being from my local newspaper, funnily. They were accused of spying on the Turkish military as they supposedly filmed in the vicinity of a military base.
Apparently there's a fair bit of feminist* activity going on in Turkey right now regarding women being concerned for their rights in the future with the country slowly slipping into a more conservative version of Islam or something along those lines I believe, can't exactly remember what it was I saw on the BBC earlier.
*Actual people at risk, not your typical stereotype of tumblr cruising land-whales attracting bad lights for movements they claim to be a part of.
*Actual people at risk, not your typical stereotype of tumblr cruising land-whales attracting bad lights for movements they claim to be a part of.
Yeah, this one is particularly nasty.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-politics-law-idUSKBN13D1YQ
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-politics-law-idUSKBN13D1YQ
