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Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

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This is what democracy looks like when there’s no democracy.

#turkey #erdogan #imamoglu #democracy #fascism

in reply to Aral Balkan

this has been happening in the Netherlands too, mostly with the degrees of the far right. They seem, after investigation, to have plajurized their bachelor's or master's thesis
in reply to webhat

@webhat This is not that, though. This is dictatorship removing a potential threat.
in reply to Aral Balkan

thanks, I didn't fully understand Turkish requirements before posting. This is indeed a career limiting move against his political rival
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in reply to webhat

@webhat Well, if it stands. If the people let it stand. As things are, he doesn’t have political rivals. Because it’s a dictatorship cosplaying democracy.
in reply to Aral Balkan

For those of you not paying attention (because Middle Eastern country, amirite?), Turkey followed the neoliberalism to fascism pipeline (in this case Islamofascism) almost a quarter of a century before the US (with Christofascism/technofascism… Christo-techno fascism?)

Lots to learn here and a glimpse into your future in the US unless you can do something about it. (Hint: appeasement and compliance do not work.)

Here’s a talk I gave at an event in Berlin eight years ago against Erdoğan’s representative and regime. I also haven’t been back to Turkey for eight years. This is not a coincidence.

ar.al/notes/my-speech-at-gener…

(İmamoğlu’s people actually invited me to give a talk a few years ago and I asked them if they could guarantee my safety if I flew into Istanbul. Needless to say, the answer was no.)

#turkey #erdogan #imamoglu #turkiye #fascism #dictatorship

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in reply to Aral Balkan

It feels like it's worth it to observe that this happened at the same time as turkey cozying up to the United States in the run-up to Iraq ii
in reply to Bruce Heerssen

@bruce I’m sure Trump gets a little wiggle in his mushroom whenever he thinks of Erdoğan.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Wait, you need a degree to run for president in Turkey? Wouldn't that favor rich people even more than politics already does?
in reply to Aral Balkan

Well, yes. But presumably that system was designed before Erdogan.

Question, since I assume from the frequency of these postings you follow Turkish politics more than I do: do you know if this autocracy came top-down -- i.e., Erdogan first, then at a more local level -- or bottom-up -- i.e., democracy was already nonexistent or quite weak at the local level and Erdogan reflects that?

in reply to a fish named dog 🎗️

@FishNamedDog It was the neoliberalism to fascism pipeline. What we’re seeing repeated in the USA today but with Islamofascism instead of Christofascism.