Ekrem Imamoğlu, Erdogan’s rival who was arrested yesterday, posted a tweet addressing Erdogan

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by subasie

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  3. Remember this isn’t just a rival, Ekrem is the mayor of the largest city in Turkey.

  5. Applies almost word for word to Trump and the United States

  6. ironic this is posted on x, a total fascist platform

  7. What is his situation rn? He’s been arrested but present in places

  8. Erdogan played the same playbook last year when he demanded expelling Kurdish activists from Sweden.

  9. Let us make sure Europe doesn’t tread down the path of authoritarianism. The first and most important step is to make sure that we as nations retain our independence. Be it from Russia or from Brussels.

  12. The “ring” reference is not about The Lord of the Rings or Erdoğan resembling Gollum, but rather a quote from his time as a candidate for Istanbul’s mayor. At the time, he said, “The only wealth I have is this ring,” while showing an engagement ring donated by a woman to fund his campaign. Another notable quote from that era was, “If I ever become very rich one day, let it be known that I must have done something haram to get rich,” implying political corruption.

    These two quotes are often used by the opposition to argue that Erdoğan and his family are wealthy and, therefore, by his own standards, must be corrupt.

    However, the origins of these quotes are highly disputed. Some claim that a video exists from that era in which Erdoğan shows his own ring and says both of these quotes together. I couldn’t find such a video, only people commenting that they had seen it but could no longer find it, suggesting it may have been deleted. This could be a case of the Mandela effect or state-sponsored historical erasure. But either way, it doesn’t really matter, everyone already knows that Erdoğan and his family are corrupt as fuck.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdo%C4%9Fan%E2%80%93Gollum_comparison_trials

  15. A civil war within the judiciary.

    Good grief, this sounds a lot like what PiS did to Poland.

  16. What’s up fellow Europeans? Turkey is suddenly not as good, as you thought a few weeks ago?

  17. “On this path you have embarked upon with a ring”

    Is that a Gollum dig?

  18. He might not be the hero everyone wants him to be. It takes a lot of connecting with influencial people to become mayor of Istanbul. And as we know not all influencial people have good morals. In fact some could argue that being sometimes ruthless is necessary to become infuencial in the first place.

    Hopefully the two don’t have too much in common.

  20. In every sentence, there is the word “nation”.

    In other news, Turkey is not nationalistic.

  21. this will eventually come down to whether there’s any substantial evidence for the allegations. on one hand, the fact that he was detained just 4 days before the pre-elections (which was bound to turn into a show of force for Imamoglu) indicates that they don’t have much evidence and just wanted to prevent it. On the other, they wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble unless there isn’t enough for an arrest, because the stock market was down 9% yesterday, and the central bank spent $10 billion to stabilize the currency.

  22. Videos (shortest to longest):

    • [Turkey’s Islamist government and president turn the Hagia Sophia Museum into a Mosque.](https://youtu.be/4vqM1E8WHrE?)

    • [Gülşen Çolakoğlu, a 46 years old Turkish pop star, has been under house arrest and facing prosecution for a joke about Turkish religious schools she made on stage, during a concert in Istanbul.](https://youtu.be/8kNvvjacc0o?)

    •[Turkish influencer Ayaz Koç, known as “Turkey’s local Spider-Man,” was arrested on April 10th for attending an Eid al-Fitr prayer at a mosque in Hatay while dressed in a full Spider-Man costume.](https://youtu.be/UWg6wri4U_w?)

    • [Turkish authorities and the media campaign against a Turkish Ex-Muslim YouTuber who ripped up the Quran](https://youtu.be/PqzI9nYVP0E?)

    • [Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, described LGBT rights as “terrorist propaganda” in a speech to members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).](https://youtu.be/4v7ezhGySaQ?)

    • [AP informed that he is wanted in Turkey for committing a thought crime.](https://youtu.be/_U_lQ4rjtk4?)

    • [Turkish Atheists Association filed a criminal complaint against pro-government Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper for insulting atheists for an article published in the newspaper](https://youtu.be/I81RFRv0hSA?)

    • [Turkish feminist Sebahat Tuncel was sentenced to 11 months in prison for calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an enemy of women.](https://youtu.be/YXdsqUMilc8?)

    • [Modern Turkey, Turkey under Erdogan, Erosion of Civil Liberties, Erdogan’s Corruption Scandal, War with the West](https://youtu.be/6r-cMh4xiwA?)

    • [Turkish Islamic televangelist sentenced to 1,075 years in jail for running a decades-old sex cult](https://youtu.be/NyFKtQk-OiE?)

    • [The state-run body (Diyanet) forbids wearing the tradition evil eye-shaped blue amulet 🧿](https://youtu.be/QfYyFmT8ADU?)

    • [Turkish lawyer Feyza Altun faced imprisonment for commenting “f*** sharia,” on Twitter](https://youtu.be/e4ExNeDbaoo?)

    • [Turkey’s religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), issues fatwa allowing adoptive parents to marry their adopted children.](https://youtu.be/8kyCK9uhfuw?)

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