Hundreds of people were swept up by Turkish authorities ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Ankara. The crackdown is illustrative of an intensifying authoritarian consolidation under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been in power for more than two decades. Little of these
“The people understood me. And I got into trouble.”
Turkish comedian @idgoktas wrote this from prison after being arrested over his stand-up show. Erdoğan’s regime is so afraid of dissent that even a joke can become a crime. But satire exists precisely to challenge power, expose
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