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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 22:18:14 JST Aral Balkan

   In case you’re wondering why the Turkish people “reelected” Erdoğan it’s for the same reason Americans would be “reelecting” President DeSantis after 20 years of rule.

   (And in case you’re thinking “term limits”, realise that Turkey has term limits too. He was prime minister first, then president, and then he changed the constitution to make it into a presidential system which he argued reset the clock on the presidential term limit…)

   #turkey #erdogan #autocracy #democracy #tyrannyOfTheMajority

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 22:32:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     • runarcn

     @runarcn Yep.

   • runarcn (runarcn@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 22:32:19 JST runarcn

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     @aral Not surprising to get reelected when you ban all opposition, especially when self-proclaimed "free speech absolutists" such as Elon Musk not-so-quietly removes everything that Erdogan doesn't like in a move to increase his own profits.

     https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657422401754259461