Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
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Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
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#2Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Re: Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
#3Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Politics is the general relativity of human relations. There is no absolute frame of reference.
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#4Stop relying on faceless corporations then, use PeerTube.
Re: Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
#5Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Erdogan has been a loose canon for a long time, and I suspect is only tolerated because of Turkey's precarious NATO membership.
Re: Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
#6Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Erdogan has been a loose canon for a long time, and I suspect is only tolerated because of Turkey's precarious NATO membership.
No, because the EU's refugee deal with Turkey is paramount.
Without it there are more refugees in Germany (and other "core" EU countries), and the tense political atmosphere tips over.
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#7Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
> Speaking to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), [German Foreign Minister] Maas said: “I do not find the demand of an arms embargo against Turkey strategically correct. It is not easy to do this against a NATO partner. We saw that NATO ally Turkey easily bought missiles from Russia because it could not buy from the U.S.”
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/eu-affairs/german-fm-maa...
> At a summit on Friday, EU leaders agreed to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over a row with Greece and Cyprus about offshore energy exploration, but postponed discussions on any harsher steps until March.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/260286/article/ekathimerini/new...
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#8I’m living in Turkey and it’s really ironic that I can’t even access this article. That is the extent of these censorships.
Re: Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe
#9Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Erdogan has been a loose canon for a long time, and I suspect is only tolerated because of Turkey's precarious NATO membership.
- He does the US's bidding in the region , countering russia in Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-karabakh without the US having to take blame for it
- He does Germany's bidding by countering French interventionism in Libya / eastmed without Germany having to take blame for it
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#10After spending the last year reading about constant warmongering and provocations against my country, with military units on combat alert even on holidays, I only have to say democracy should be reinstated in Turkey and I hope the circumstances can not detriment the friendship and common heritage of Turkish and Greek people.