Will Turkey’s electorate vote on a liberal vs. non-liberal axis? No way. Still, the most anti-liberal (socialist) parties are part of the opposition. So, why should we care about an irrelevant intra-Western academic debate by MacIntyre, et al’s while analyzing our country?

https://twitter.com/drusaama/status/1657475490792239104

This is, ironically, a form of epistemic hegemony that disregards dozens of native scholars’ self-understanding and analysis of their own country. Why should we ever care about liberal violence while we are facing Muslim-Turko-nationalism and religious populism’s violence?

I wonder how some people came up with the idea, “Turkey’s elections are not fair but nonetheless they are free.

Turkey’s elections are neither free nor fair by any standard. Just to refresh our memories:

nytimes.com/2023/05/12/wor… Erdogan jailed his rival Demirtaş through bogus charges and pressuring the heavily subdued, in no way autonomous judiciary in 2018. Demirtaş had to run for president from a jail cell. #democracy #FreeElections

What we have been used to in Turkey for many elections in the form of bootlicking liturgy by the servile ulama class has now gone global.
And this thread by @YasirQadhi is both misguided and misleading on more levels that I can count.
#Turkeyelections2023

https://twitter.com/YasirQadhi/status/1656607061734576128

First, on the Court "Ulama"s endorsement of a tyrant who has massacred, even burnt alive, so many innocent lives, who displaced 100s of thousands of Kurdish Syrians and created new IDPs and refugees in Syria, who has suspended so many rights and freedoms while allowing hijab,

Atlantik köle ticaretinden de korkunç, tarihin belki de en hunhar köleciliğini Arap köle tüccarları işledi; köle kaynakları kesilmesin diye İslam'ın yayılmasını bile engellediler. Kaçı hadım edilip Osmanlı'nın seks saraylarında istismar ettiler."İSLAM TOPRAKLARI" dert bile etmez.

https://twitter.com/ihsansenocak/status/1274275924444397568

Siyah Afrikalılar yetmedi doğudan Çerkezleri, Batı'dan Balkanlı çocuklu kadınlı aileleri kaçırıp köleleştirdiler. Muhterem bilinen nice Osmanlı eliti, paşası kız erkek köle tecavüzcüsü veya tüccarı olarak kayıtlarda geçer ama kolektif hafızada özenle bastırılmıştır.