Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoProtests are the last thing keeping Turkey’s democracy alivewww.economist.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1209
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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·9 months ago Europe have offered President Erdogan little resistance Yeah. Europe, resisting the US is great and all, but y’all need to look in your own backyard, at Turkey, Hungary, and rising alt right parties everywhere. It can happen to you, too. And by the time it’s close, it’s too late.
minus-squareWanpieserino@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoMost European Turks vote for Erdogan.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoAh, but that would mean Turkey wouldn’t be blocking the flow of migrants anymore, and we can’t have that now, can we?
Yeah.
Europe, resisting the US is great and all, but y’all need to look in your own backyard, at Turkey, Hungary, and rising alt right parties everywhere.
It can happen to you, too. And by the time it’s close, it’s too late.
Most European Turks vote for Erdogan.
Ah, but that would mean Turkey wouldn’t be blocking the flow of migrants anymore, and we can’t have that now, can we?