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A comment on Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City. Parent comment
Whatever you feel about his policies, this one fact goes against the assertion that he's a dictator.
That, and the slightly inconvenient fact that he keeps winning elections and/or referendums.
Or that the odd hastily-enacted coup gets confronted by the MAJORITY of Turkish civil society.
Or does your definition of democracy = "do what we (Westerners) want, irrespective of the wishes of the MAJORITY of your populace"?
> so there's no way I'm visiting Turkey until things change.
Your loss. I don't anyone there really cares ...
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Whatever you feel about his policies, this one fact goes against the assertion that he's a dictator.
That, and the slightly inconvenient fact that he keeps winning elections and/or referendums.
Or that the odd hastily-enacted coup gets confronted by the MAJORITY of Turkish civil society.
Or does your definition of democracy = "do what we (Westerners) want, irrespective of the wishes of the MAJORITY of your populace"?
> so there's no way I'm visiting Turkey until things change.
Your loss. I don't anyone there really cares ...