Poll of the Day > Turkey sends female politician to prison for saying Erdogan is misogynist...

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comment was made 4 years ago :/

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/09/22/Turkey-sentences-female-politician-to-prison-for-calling-Erdogan-enemy-of-women-

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They have next-level cancel culture over there

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I know that you're *trying* to go for irony or hypocrisy, but that's not really a gendered issue because Erdogan treats everybody like crap. It's kind of like when people in the US make a big deal about somebody "insulting women" when they also insult men non-stop and somehow treating genders equally is what makes them sexist in loopy feminist logic.

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You're extremely likely to go to prison in Turkey for calling Erdogan a misogynist if you're a man, too. Or for failing to wholeheartedly endorse Erdogan's every word and deed in the most glowing terms. He's what some would call a "strong leader", i.e. pathologically incapable of tolerating any criticism whatsoever.

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Firewerx posted...

You're extremely likely to go to prison in Turkey for calling Erdogan a misogynist if you're a man, too. Or for failing to wholeheartedly endorse Erdogan's every word and deed in the most glowing terms. He's what some would call a "strong leader", i.e. pathologically incapable of tolerating any criticism whatsoever.

So hes Turkeys Trump.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

I know that you're *trying* to go for irony or hypocrisy

I'm not trying, the article phrases it like that

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Lokarin posted...

I'm not trying, the article phrases it like that

Zeus doesnt read. Stop expecting he knows a single thing. Most of what he says is propaganda ffs.

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Gentle reminder that Erdogan's forces assaulted American citizens on American soil for peacefully protesting against him

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-39979879

Oh, and they also assaulted US Secret Service, too

https://thehill.com/policy/international/469705-erdogan-visit-stirs-memories-of-violent-protests

Good thing Erdogan's buddy, Trump, expedited getting them the fuck out of here before they could be arrested! Or outright dropping the charges, despite literal video evidence....

More than a dozen Turkish security officials were first identified by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) two years ago as instigating violence against protesters who were demonstrating outside the Turkish ambassadors residence during Erdoans last visit to Washington, D.C., though charges were dropped against most of them.
The security officials left the country before they could be arrested. They were delivered to a waiting flight at Joint Base Andrews by State Department diplomatic security and Secret Service. One agent described it as the fastest joint move and departure Ive ever seen in my 16 years on the job, according to a memo sent to the State Department the day after the clashes.
The memo was included in court documents in a lawsuit against Turkey on behalf of the victims of the attacks. It details violent outbursts against both civilians and U.S. security personnel who are charged with coordinating protection for foreign dignitaries with visiting security officers.

Included in the lawsuit are State Department memos, written from the point of view of three U.S. security officers tasked with guarding Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu.
They detail Turkish security officers attacking both civilians and U.S. security agents in multiple instances, sometimes simultaneously, over the course of the afternoon of May 16, 2017, including the attack near the ambassadors residence and then fighting outside the Turkish Embassy.
Two Diplomatic Security special agents, six U.S. Secret Service officers and one MPD officer sustained multiple injuries, with at least one taken to the hospital.
I looked up from the fight I was involved, wrote one diplomatic security agent, and saw a second fight taking place with another Turkish security personnel who was being flexi-cuffed and subdued for assaulting more U.S. police.
En route to the Turkish Embassy, U.S. security agents later described how seven Turkish security officials jumped out of the diplomatic convoy transporting avuolu to attack a lone, female protester.