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4 May, 13 tweets, 4 min read
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for disrespecting the President by sitting with legs too far apart.

Probably... Who knows anymore?
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for disrespecting the Rabia sign, holding up the wrong number of fingers.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for making rude shapes with his hands in front of children and with a Turkish flag in the background.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for making threatening fist in clear attempt at coup.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for pointing his finger in an aggressive way, undermining the clear will of the people.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for not wearing a tie.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for doing a stop sign with hand in front of the Turkish flag, clearly disrespecting the Turkish people in their pursuit of what is rightfully theirs.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for squeezing fingers in an aggressive way, showing contempt for the sensibilities and morality of the Turkish people.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for belly dancing, in clear contempt for the Turkish military.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for doing the crazy sign with his finger, undermining the values of the Turkish family.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for looking aggressively at the camera - I mean who does he think he is, disrespecting 20 centuries of Turkic glory with a look like that?
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for holding his hands behind his back near a shrine, in clear contempt and disrespect for the entire Ottoman Empire, the values of the Turkish people and Allah (cc) himself.

It's probably time to bring back the death penalty...
A late addition but Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under investigation for brandishing gun on live TV and attempting to undermine the constitutional order of the nation.

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5 May
This is probably the most embarrassing piece of political communication I have ever seen.

The money spent on this could have been spent in a million more productive ways but no...

It’s a childish cartoon (as you can tell from the music and voices) which suggests the CHP has a “lie machine”. There’s also a “parrot elixir” and anti-blushing face cream which allows Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to ask where the $128 billion is multiple times without turning red.
The country is facing multiple crises, from unemployment to inflation, from high COVID numbers to economically crippling lockdowns.

And this is what they’re doing? Who is advising them? How do they think this helps?

Long may it continue of course - this benefits the opposition. Image
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22 Apr
One of Melih Bulu’s Deputy Rectors at Boğaziçi now has so many jobs because no-one will work for Bulu that his titles won’t fit in 4 tweets. Naci İnci as of today is:

Deputy Rector
Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Sciences
Head of Academic Rules Commission

(cont)
Still Naci İnci:

Head of Course Evaluation Committee
Diploma & Certificate Editing Committee President
Head of Diploma Ceremony Award Commission
Chairman of Honorary Academic Title & Service Awards Commission
Head of Evening Education Graduate Program Coordination Board

(cont)
Somehow still Naci İnci:

Employment Processes Commission President
Head of Undergraduate Education Commission
Head of Postgraduate Education Commission
Head of Evaluation Committee for Transfer Applications with a Central Placement Score

(cont)
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26 Dec 20
On the left, an ignorant, vainglorious old man, saying the young don’t work.

On the right, a young healthcare worker saying he has no money, no hope, and could be hit by a car on his way home from a 24 hour shift and he wouldn’t care anymore.

New Turkey.
If you watch this video and don’t get a lump in your throat for the kid and raging anger at the sheer inhumanity of the old man, I question your ethics and your ability to drink from the milk of human kindness.

This, right here, is Turkey’s challenge. It is generational.
The problem is there are millions of both that old man and that beautiful little kid.

The forces of unwarranted and inhuman arrogance waged against hopeless yet bright youth is the battle for Turkey’s future.

How it ends is really up to up all of us but it’s not going well.
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24 Dec 20
Ottoman Chess.

Like normal chess but the Sultan (King) can occasionally strangle his own pieces. Image
Also, if you play for long enough, the game collapses, there’s a Republican interlude and then the Imams (bishops) are allowed to do whatever they like.

It’s a confusing game but it ends with your side owing the other side more money than reasonably exists
“Why did you lose your last game of Ottoman Chess?”

“The Germans lost and for some reason that meant I lost too.”
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23 Dec 20
The AKP can’t reasonably claim moral superiority when it comes to sexual assault of women and abuse of the vulnerable more generally.

But the CHP has to be whiter than white on this.

Right now it clearly isn’t. The #MeToo  movement should replenish the opposition.

Seriously.
It’s natural we hear more details of abuse from the opposition because the opposition should necessarily pull in people who don’t accept abuse.

Our problem is a society that allows powerful men to think that power allows them to exert abuse of authority on those around them.
The opposition may well be attacked by an unfair media and judicial system but at the same time, an abuser is an abuser and the evidence is always there in the person who finally shouts out about their abuse.

If the opposition can’t be clear about this, it’s screwed.
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30 Aug 20
Given we’re asking whether Turkish twitter celebrities are actual people, I’d love to ask who @drsinanerdil is.

His profile photo is from this group photo from a University of Toronto OISE graduation in 2011.

He doesn’t exist outside of twitter.

Yet followed by 62.3k people...
The only other photo I can find of him is the one below. Old bios talked of ODTÜ and living in Canada. Those are gone now.

There are no publications by a Dr Sinan Erdil. In this world of everything being online, it feels impossible that there would be no trail.
He’s been quoted in Turkish media as an expert on the economy. Yet there is no evidence that this person even exists. Perhaps @drsinanerdil might want to shut me up by discussing what he was doing at UoT in 2011 with the OISE graduating class.

Or discuss how he became a Dr?
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