Bok 267 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Turkey’s Erdogan Calls Student Protesters Terrorists, Intensifying Anti-LGBT Rhetoric Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused student demonstrators of being terrorists as Turkish police arrested them for protesting Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector at one of the country’s top universities this week. For over a month, students, faculty members and alumni of Bogazici University in Istanbul have protested Erdogan’s appointment of Turkish politician and academic Melih Bulu, demanding an election to choose a rector among the university’s own faculty. Bulu holds a doctorate from Bogazici’s business management program but has never been a full-time academic at the university. Critics have accused him of plagiarism in his dissertation and published articles and have called for his resignation. Bulu has denied those accusations. The dispute at Bogazici intensified after a poster depicting the Islamic holy site Kaaba with LGBT flags was displayed in an exhibition on campus as part of protests last week. On January 29, Soylu tweeted about the arrest of four students over the poster, calling them “LGBT deviants.” Later, Twitter placed a warning on Soylu’s tweet, saying it had violated the company’s rules regarding hateful conduct. Two of the detained students were arrested on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values. https://twitter.com/UNHumanRights/status/1356987937800540165?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1356987937800540165|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Fextremism-watch%2Fturkeys-erdogan-calls-student-protesters-terrorists-intensifying-anti-lgbt-rhetoric Source https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/turkeys-erdogan-calls-student-protesters-terrorists-intensifying-anti-lgbt-rhetoric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FATCAT 60,886 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Hopefully this helps push his support to an absolute minimum and Turkey can return to democracy w/ presidential term limits. This kitten over here (meow) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, FATCAT said: Hopefully this helps push his support to an absolute minimum and Turkey can return to democracy w/ presidential term limits. In reality it'll do: nothing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade 5,603 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 everyone who is against him is a terrorist to him and his sheeple fans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimisaMonster 31,073 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 His fragile ego is threatened... Stream my new single, 💜"Heartbeat"💜, on Spotify! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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