What’s the occasional incarcerated Swede if it means our friend Erdoğan keeps the smelly Brown people from our pristine white shores, amirite, folks?

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#EU #turkey #türkiye #fascism #faşizm #refugees #sweden #complicity #racism #xenophobia

Swedish Journalist Jailed In Turkey Kept 'Isolated': Employer

A Swedish journalist arrested on arrival in Turkey and detained on terrorism charges is being kept away from other prisoners but is otherwise in "good spirits", his employer said Tuesday.

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TURKIYE PROTESTS

More than 2,000,000 against the Erdogan administration in Turkiye.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Turkiye #Breaking #breakingnews

“Ankara is too important an ally to alienate, no matter what happens on the streets of Istanbul, politicians and officials tell POLITICO.

The European Union is set to keep pumping billions of euros into Turkey despite President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s sweeping crackdown on political opponents.”

politico.eu/article/turkey-cri…

Write him a fucking blank cheque, why don’t you, you spineless, racist blocks of cheddar. And why? Because he helps keeps the Brown people away from our pristine white shores.

I swear the next person who uses the words “European values” non-sarcastically in my presence will wish they’d stayed in bed that morning.

#demokrasi #insanHakları #ırkcılık #faşizm #Türkiye #erdoğan #AvrupaBirliği #democracy #humanRights #racism #fascism #Turkey #erdogan #EU

EU faces billion-euro dilemma over Turkey crisis

^{Gabriel Gavin (POLITICO)}

Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die

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#türkiye #istanbul #imamoğlu #demokrasi #insanHakları #erdoğan #faşizm #turkey #democracy #humanRights #imamoglu #erdogan #fascism

Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die

Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest, they have hope, says Istanbul-based writer Carolin Würfel

^{Carolin Würfel (The Guardian)}

🔴 BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from #Turkey after being arrested in #Istanbul on Wednesday, the #BBC has said.

Lowen had been in #Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the #Istanbul Mayor Ekrem #Imamoglu's arrest last week.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly34r… #Türkiye #Europe #News

BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey

Mark Lowen was covering the protests in Istanbul when he was arrested and later deported back to the UK, the BBC has said.

^{Laura Gozzi (BBC News)}

youtube.com/watch?v=P6wk4oI4wT…

#DemocracyNow

1 400+ Arrested in #Turkiye as #Erdogan Jails #Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies #Authoritarian Crackdown

“Don’t believe your eyes.” – Turkish state TV

Imagine the people who work there; imagine your whole sorry existence being the peddling of lies.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

#turkey #türkiye #erdoğan #insanHakları #demokrasi #humanRights #democracy #sansür #censorship

‘It’s disinformation’: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests

News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networks

^{Ruth Michaelson (The Guardian)}

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.

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(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

And now they’ve arrested him.

Erdoğan, the dictator, doing what dictators do.

irishtimes.com/world/middle-ea…

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

Mayor of Istanbul arrested as part of crackdown on opposition to Turkish president

Ekrem Imamoglu is considered the chief challenger to leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

^{Michael Jansen (The Irish Times)}