Turkey bans Twitter, accuses them of "systematic character assassination"
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« on: March 22, 2014, 01:43:03 PM »
Naturally this occurs in advance of March 30 Local elections. Almost all of the seventy-four million Turkish twitter users were able to work around the problem at first, including President Abdullah Gul who tweeted that shutting down social media networks cannot "be approved".


I think it's safe to say Turkey isn't going to the EU now...
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2014, 02:40:43 PM »
Their EU application was losing races to snails anyways.
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2014, 05:17:00 PM »
Quote from: NewYorkExpress on March 22, 2014, 01:43:03 PM
I think it's safe to say Turkey isn't going to the EU now...

And that is probably for the better, both for Europe and Turkey.
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2014, 05:34:38 PM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on March 23, 2014, 02:40:43 PM
Their EU application was losing races to snails anyways.

Long, long dead.
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2014, 11:48:19 PM »
More embarrassments from our "friends".
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2014, 02:10:17 PM »
Not sure if this is a joke. Every single person in Turkey is on twitter to the nearest million?
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« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2014, 10:49:13 AM »
Turkey now bans Youtube: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702

A few days ago I saw in the news some interviews of Erdogan's supporters. They were literally saying that the government should not only block Twitter, Youtube or Facebook, but block the whole internet... This measure seems quite popular among the older countryside supporters (probably non internet users) of the AKP.
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« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2014, 06:42:43 PM »
This is why you don't trust rural folk with power.
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« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2014, 09:23:52 PM »
« Edited: April 03, 2014, 06:23:24 AM by afleitch »
I was for some reason crucified for suggesting it earlier, but there really needs to be a change of power before Turkey devolves into a totalitarian fundamentalist sh-thole.
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« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2014, 09:34:05 PM »
Quote from: Snowstalker on March 27, 2014, 09:23:52 PM
I was for some reason crucified for suggesting it earlier, but there really needs to be a change of power before Turkey devolves into a totalitarian fundamentalist shithole.

You were not "crucified" for that. But you were justifiably criticized for the suggested manner of such a change: i.e. for your support of a fascist military coup.

Turkey is a reasonably functional democracy. Turks will know what to do.
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2014, 10:08:28 AM »
and The AKP wins local elections, looks like they even held on to the mayors' officers in the two big cities.

I said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2014, 10:19:41 AM »
Quote from: WillipsBrighton on March 31, 2014, 10:08:28 AM
and The AKP wins local elections, looks like they even held on to the mayors' officers in the two big cities.

I said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work.

Remarkably, democracy doesn't always result in the election of foreigners' preferred candidates.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2014, 10:33:56 AM »
It isn't as though the two major opposition parties are terribly pleasant either.

Anyone else think that Erdogan is having a breakdown or something?
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