What a fucking asshole. He's destroyed the lives of many Turkish citizens (not to speak of the Turkish Kurdistan), he's been toying with the idea of war, helping ISIS, Russia, Siria or the US...
What a fucking asshole. He's destroyed the lives of many Turkish citizens (not to speak of the Turkish Kurdistan), he's been toying with the idea of war, helping ISIS, Russia, Siria or the US whenever it suited him (him personally and not his country), I hate the guy.
(disclaimer: most of my Turkish friends either have relatives imprisoned/persecuted by Erdogan or are Kurdish so my opinions may be a bit biased).
Technically Kurds in Turkey are Turkish citizens too (my current understanding is that Ataturk intended the term "Turk" to be something like "American" is, i.e. a demonym not an ethnonym, but then...
Technically Kurds in Turkey are Turkish citizens too (my current understanding is that Ataturk intended the term "Turk" to be something like "American" is, i.e. a demonym not an ethnonym, but then things got very messy because nationalists).
I'm a Turkish citizen, AMA about this. My opinion is that the ignorance and idiocy of the masses---increased and toolified by the 1980 coup regime's constitution which is still active and gave for decades all the tools oppressive govts needed into their hands---is to blame. We're still suffering the legacy of that coup d'etat. Erdogan is just a figure in a picture that was painted on the 12th of September by the Junta of Evren and his shitty friends. It might have been someone else, it happened to be him. There were the tools the coup constitution gave and then an economic crisis, best conditions for this kind of thing to happen.
What a fucking asshole. He's destroyed the lives of many Turkish citizens (not to speak of the Turkish Kurdistan), he's been toying with the idea of war, helping ISIS, Russia, Siria or the US whenever it suited him (him personally and not his country), I hate the guy.
(disclaimer: most of my Turkish friends either have relatives imprisoned/persecuted by Erdogan or are Kurdish so my opinions may be a bit biased).
I'm Turkish and can confirm this is the only reasonable opinion to have on Erdoğan.
Technically Kurds in Turkey are Turkish citizens too (my current understanding is that Ataturk intended the term "Turk" to be something like "American" is, i.e. a demonym not an ethnonym, but then things got very messy because nationalists).
I'm a Turkish citizen, AMA about this. My opinion is that the ignorance and idiocy of the masses---increased and toolified by the 1980 coup regime's constitution which is still active and gave for decades all the tools oppressive govts needed into their hands---is to blame. We're still suffering the legacy of that coup d'etat. Erdogan is just a figure in a picture that was painted on the 12th of September by the Junta of Evren and his shitty friends. It might have been someone else, it happened to be him. There were the tools the coup constitution gave and then an economic crisis, best conditions for this kind of thing to happen.