"[Y]ou already had media capture [..] where the president's cronies - businessmen around him in his coterie - are given lucrative contracts. And they were then pretty much told that they had to hoover up, buy the mainstream media outlets which in turn became mouthpieces for the government"

#AmberinZaman discusses the #TurkishElections & the political climate in #Turkey under #Erdogan

https://youtu.be/duTrRTG2SzI

#TurkeyElections2023 #AKP #CHP #Kılıçdaroğlu #SyrianRefugees #Kurdistan #Kurds

@glynmoody

Alas, the voters in the run-off #TurkeyElections2023 were partially disenfranchised by its #autocratic president exercising almost complete control over the state media and, thanks to right-wing pal #ElonMusk, over the still most important political #SocialMedia platform, #Twitter, as well as over the #Turkish organizations controlling....

Time for the markets to do their job to destroy #Erdogan's #VoodooEcomics(1). (2)

(1) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/voodooeconomics.asp

(2)
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/110453384455243430

And I congratulate the Turkish opposition for courageously fighting an unfair fight & showing us that even in an autocracy, giving up is not an option.

Every oppressive regime falls one day. Keep going.

#TurkeyElections2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1663105829267021829

All fingers crossed for Turkey. And for the election counting and results to be allowed to proceed without pressure. #Turkeyelections2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1657871778381692928

Εγώ που ακούω τον Αβραμόπουλο να κάνει γεωστρατηγική ανάλυση (😂) και να λέει ότι θα τα πει έξω από τα δόντια ακόμα κι αν ο Ερντογάν αυτή την στιγμή έχει βάλει ΑΝΤ1 και τον ακούει.

#ΤουρκικεςΕκλογες #Τουρκια #TurkishElections #Turkeyelections2023

RT by @DastanJasim: Very tiring how mainstream Western analysts constantly describe the Turkish elections as 'not fair - but substantially free'.

With so many jailed, media controlled, judiciary crippled - what kind of freedom? This distinction is pure semantics

#TwitterKurds #Turkeyelections2023

Source: http://birdsite.xanny.family/MattBroomfield1/status/1657786232183697409#m