Turkish PM Erdogan gives campaign speech to Turks in Vienna - Live Thread

[Tender Branson]

Read about the topic and controversy here:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=180261.msg4198754#msg4198754

and here:

http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Erdogan-s-forthcoming-visit-creates-a-stir-in-Austria_2525-CHMTQ3MjUyNS80

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I'll keep you up-to-date if there are clashes between pro- and anti-Erdogan people in Vienna today.

Also: The police operation to protect the event will cost at least 1 Mio. €

[Meursault]

Old man is old.

[Tender Branson]

The speech has started.

Erdogan refers to the Turks inside the Albert-Schulz ice hockey hall as "grandchildren of Kara Mustafa" (the Turkish military commander who failed to conquer Vienna during the 2nd of the great sieges of the city by the Turks).

"I'm here for you !", Erdogan said.

Some pics:

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Erdogan really takes the cake for being the most arrogant d*ck in the free world.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Whoever started this "Keep Calm and ..." meme?  They're more of a menace than Erdogan.

[Simfan34]

That would be the Ministry of Information in 1940.

[BaconBacon96]

Whoever started this "Keep Calm and ..." meme?  They're more of a menace than Erdogan.

They are based off British motivational posters that were briefly used in the lead up to WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

[Хahar 🤔]

It's always nice to see respectable racism on display.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Erdogan refers to the Turks inside the Albert-Schulz ice hockey hall as "grandchildren of Kara Mustafa" (the Turkish military commander who failed to conquer Vienna during the 2nd of the great sieges of the city by the Turks).

"I'm here for you !", Erdogan said.

Is he trying to make matters worse?

[Tender Branson]

It's always nice to see respectable racism on display.

Could you explain further ?

Racism on part of the Austrians or the Turks ?

[Tender Branson]

Erdogan refers to the Turks inside the Albert-Schulz ice hockey hall as "grandchildren of Kara Mustafa" (the Turkish military commander who failed to conquer Vienna during the 2nd of the great sieges of the city by the Turks).

"I'm here for you !", Erdogan said.

Is he trying to make matters worse?

Erdogan is trying really hard, yeah.

Erdogan, like Putin, is one of those autocrats who live in a Hitler-esque mindset of "need more room for our people" and encourages the expansion of Turks into other countries like an invasive species (similar to the Pythons in Florida).

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Erdogan refers to the Turks inside the Albert-Schulz ice hockey hall as "grandchildren of Kara Mustafa" (the Turkish military commander who failed to conquer Vienna during the 2nd of the great sieges of the city by the Turks).

"I'm here for you !", Erdogan said.

Is he trying to make matters worse?

Erdogan is trying really hard, yeah.

Erdogan, like Putin, is one of those autocrats who live in a Hitler-esque mindset of "need more room for our people" and encourages the expansion of Turks into other countries like an invasive species (similar to the Pythons in Florida).

No, I mean, is he trying to make anti-Turkish sentiment in German-speaking countries worse by saying things like that? Does he realize that that's the probable outcome?