It took the German Foreign Office 1.5 months to make a statement on the EU sanctions against me. Poor attempt to change the narrative while criticism against Germany & EU is growing.
And—what a coincidence—they made their statement exactly one day after we filed our appeal.
Suprise. Suprise.
Not a single mainstream journalist in Germany has contacted me since I was sanctioned. Despite the large number of journalists at the government press conference, not one of them challenged the government using the information I've been sharing on social media for weeks. Only @FWarweg asked the glaring questions.
Why didn't any of the journalists in the room ask this question: Hüseyin Dogru is ONLY a German citizen, so why is the EU insisting he is Turkish?
As a German they couldn't sanction me like this.
If I was white, those journalists wouldn't be so nonchalant. They've fought harder for right-wing press before.
Only one journalist—Warweg—has asked critical questions about my case. The rest stay silent when truth hurts the government. All of them - young, naive and old ones- this silence lays the groundwork for censorship. Remember 1933’s "Schriftleitergesetz"—the parallels are here.
Meanwhile, Germany’s media foot soldiers — @tazgezwitscher , @Tagesspiegel & co.—sat silent for a month. Not a single article.
Now, after the Foreign Office speaks, they suddenly show up to parrot the state’s narrative.
You are the state-controlled media you claim to oppose.
Without scrutiny, the EU and Germany are laying the groundwork for a censorship regime which will erase dissent before anyone notices.
URGENT: After 1 month of EU sanctions, our health insurance says payments have stopped. My wife is 7 months pregnant with twins. I am not allowed to pay for the insurance and i’m still banned from working. They’re risking our unborn children’s lives.
My pregnant wife's accounts remain still frozen—though she’s not sanctioned. The bank won’t reply.
I was granted ca. €500/month by the German Bundesbank—in a city where rent is €1,500–€1,700. I still have no access to even that.
To this day, no German mainstream outlet has shown interest in my story. They refuse to cover this extrajudicial punishment.
German trade union & Reporters Without Borders Germany ignore my emails. Seems they’re fine with journalism being sanctioned.
It's important not to seek psychoanalytic explanations for Germany's increasingly bombastic behaviour on the international stage.
The reason simple: the only way Germany's capitalist class can save itself from a deep economic crisis of its own making, is through WAR. 🧵
Many are shocked Germany is wantonly tearing up its image as the "good guy" in the West when it comes to human rights & int. law. Firstly, this reputation, earned during the 2015 refugee crisis, mostly prevails amongst the far-right & western liberals (funny how often they align)
This view of Germany does not exist amongst racialized people inside the country or amongst Europe’s poorer states like Greece, which have suffered greatly under an EU ruled by Berlin.
But still, I hear so often people asking: what happened to Germany?
A lot of people are asking me what being sanctioned actually means in practice.
Let me try to explain it to you.
I haven’t been charged with anything.
I haven’t stood trial.
I haven’t been found guilty of any crime.
I had no chance to defend my self.
But the EU sanctioned me for my pro-Palestine journalism
and stripped me of all my rights.
Again — I haven’t been found guilty of anything by a court.
But I’m not allowed to buy food.
I’m not allowed to buy medicine for my children —
or even a bottle of water when they’re thirsty.
I’m not allowed to accept a gift.
I’m not even allowed to accept a gift.