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Europe have offered President Erdogan little resistance
Yeah.
Europe, resisting the US is great and all, but y'all need to look in your own backyard, at Turkey, Hungary, and rising alt right parties everywhere.
It can happen to you, too. And by the time it’s close, it’s too late.
Trump is basically the same as Erdogan, and Putin. Same network of "leaders".
That's pretty undeniable, but the important question is, will European liberals continue to be like Pelosi and Schumer? That's the question that will determine if free Europe has a future. Fascists gonna fascist. It's the rest of government that makes it possible for fascists to rule.
Depends on how seriously they take things like Trump, le Pen in France, and AfD. Not looking great so far, but hopefully we start seeing something soon.
Just like everything else the GOP says, all those looney, raving conspiracy theories about the "new world order" turned out to be projection too.
I think Trump will eventually be shown to be more unhinged than all of them.
Ah, but that would mean Turkey wouldn't be blocking the flow of migrants anymore, and we can't have that now, can we?
Most European Turks vote for Erdogan.
Best they can do is promote austerity policies and tax breaks for corporations
From the article ...
On March 23rd, as Mr Imamoglu was being moved to a maximum-security prison on the city’s outskirts, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) staged a primary election to confirm him as its candidate in the next presidential elections, scheduled for 2028. It was open to all voters, not just CHP members. The party said 15m Turks took part.
... and ...
Meral, a housewife, joined the protests with her daughter, a university student. “This is not about Imamoglu or the CHP,” she says. “This is because our right to vote and to be elected is being taken away.”
That's one badass picture
In case anyone's wondering, there's a few reasons for that. Firstly, of course the subject itself is badass. Secondly composition-wise we have what I call a "dynamic diagonal" which leads your eyes from the main subject to the background following the same line. The subject is back/side-lit with hard light giving an intense contrasty look. Finally, and that's probably the main one, the fog/smoke is lifting up the shadows as you move into the picture away from the camera, making the main subject much more contrasty and stand out from the background despite being overall the same colours/brightness.
My thoughts are with you Turkey, I hope you get the justice you deserve.
They’re doing better than America then. We’re just going quietly into the dark knight