Last Updated On: Jan 15 2021 11:18 Gmt+3
In Turkey it’s not very difficult to be labelled a terrorist by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or other members of the AKP government. You can be given this honour by signing petitions, protesting, being Kurdish, being a journalist, or even being an abstract financial force like inflation. Students are the latest group that President Erdoğan has accused of terrorism, so here’s a non-exhaustive list of all the times he has called someone or something a terrorist.
Gezi Park protesters
I’m not sure whether this trend started with Gezi park, but it certainly kicked off in a big way in 2013, when Erdoğan, facing his first really significant public protest movement, said that the people who occupied Gezi Park in Istanbul to stop it being bulldozed to make a shopping mall were terrorists. Of course, the rhetoric never really matched the reality, as the people protesting at Gezi were people like the girl in the red dress getting maced, an
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