Reuters reported in May about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unprecedented crackdown on his opponents. One of those is Özgür Özel, whose power, due to his popularity, Erdogan has attempted to neutralize. “Özel said he had been forced to leave the party founded by modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after a court annulled the […]
Turkey: Mayor of Istanbul seeking ‘democratic transition’ writes letter from jail warning about Erdogan
Last March, Jihad Watch reported that Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu had considerable support in his bid to challenge Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the presidency, but then he was arbitrarily detained on “corruption” suspicions — which are often conjured up against anyone who threatens Erdogan’s authority or leadership. So Imamoglu was arrested, interrogated, jailed, and […]
Turkey detains three more mayors as part of crackdown on Erdogan’s opposition
In March, Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was officially nominated for president by the opposition CHP party for the 2028 elections, despite having been thrown in jail on trumped-up charges. Now three more mayors who represent a threat to the leadership of Islamic supremacist Erdogan have been detained. Nonetheless, Erdogan acts as though he has […]
Turkey: Erdoğan suffers historic setback in crucial mayoral elections as secular party surges in popularity
The Islamic supremacist and despotic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suffered what’s being described as the “worst election defeat since coming to power two decades ago.” The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is now Turkey’s leading party, “according to the preliminary results of Turkey’s local elections,” which took place on Sunday. Erdogan has […]
Turkey: Erdogan to form new monitoring agency to restrict social media activity and combat ‘fake news’
“Fake news” according to whom? Why, according to Erdogan, of course. Just as in the U.S., what Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg and the Google thugs consider “fake news” from their far-Left perspective is banned, buried, erased, silenced. Biden’s handlers are likely taking notes from Erdogan in this and ready to make this social media […]