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New video! The last in this series on Polish Foreign policy.
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Good Morning. I've been up all night, watching the Asian stock markets crash, waiting for European markets to open. And it just hit me, this is a first in history. Of course there have been economic crashes before, but the weird and unique thing about this one, is that it isn't a surprise. This isn't suddenly coming out of the blue. We all get to watch an economic disaster unfold live. Because it was deliberately caused and therefore predictable. Either way. I just want to check in and hope you are all ok.
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New Video!
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Hey, I went on the official Polandball podcast for a little chat.
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I was asked by a Turkish friend to share this with you:
Hello,
You will be hearing this message from Kraut, but this script wasnāt written by himself. This script was produced by the collaboration of 2 Turkish users in Krautās discord serverā and our communication was rendered possible through the use of VPNs, as discord and a lot of other social media platforms are restricted in Turkey.
As some of you may know, there are nationwide protests ongoing right now in Turkey. You may have also seen footage of cops using excessive violence, rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray, as well as making use of the water cannons of riot control vehicles against mostly student protesters. As it currently stands, more than 1,000 protestors have been detained since the start of these protests. What sparked these protests was the detention and arrest of Ekrem Ä°mamoÄlu, Istanbulās mayor and the oppositionās leading contender for the 2028 presidential elections. This move essentially prevents Ä°mamoÄlu from running against ErdoÄan. In the eyes of many, this serves a turning point in Turkeyās descent into full autocracy.
However, it would be naive to suggest that the detention of Ekrem Ä°mamoÄlu is the sole reason of the people taking it to the streets. The AKP, the ruling party, has been in power since 2002 and over this more than 20 year long period the Turkish political system has been undergoing a gradual transformation towards authoritarianism. Turkey remains one of the worst jailers of journalists, the government continues to suppress protests and harass civil society groups.
One might argue that the 2013 Gezi Park protests marked a turning point in ErdoÄanās approach to the opposition. Previously he had presented himself as a more moderate leader, or at least maintained that appearance. After the Gezi protests, he started escalating his crackdown on dissent. Following his election as president in 2014, he openly disregarded the constitutional constraints, ruling as a de facto party leader despite the presidencyās nonpartisan status under the legal framework at the time. And in 2017, the country formally transitioned to what we call a one-man regime. We call it that since this regime entirely abolished the separation of powers and rendered parliament functionally irrelevant, though elections have continued to function within a legal framework that preserved a veneer of legitimacy.
Now, with the detention and arrest of Ä°mamoÄlu, the mask of legitimacy has been formally discarded. The fascistic ErdoÄan administrationās ambitions likely will not stop at eliminating Ä°mamoÄlu. The action appears poised to launch a broader crackdown on The Republican Peopleās Party (CHP), which may face systematic marginalizationā as seen by the recently launched investigation against Ankaraās mayor Mansur YavaÅ of the main opposition Republican Peopleās Party (CHP), who is also considered a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan in the 2028 presidential election.
For us Turkish people, it is clear as day that Ä°mamoÄluās detention was a politically charged move to neutralize an opposition figure and ensure ErdoÄanās fascistic, authoritarian regime remains unchallenged. In a country that arrests its political rivals, elections are nothing more than a ritualistic performance to uphold the appearance of a democracy. In this new era of authoritarianism in Turkey, even the semblance of democratic competition may soon be systematically eradicated. And much like in the 2013 Gezi Protest, we may pay a heavy price for challenging the AKP rule and failing to rid ourselves of their parasitic hold over this country.
Whilst all of this is happening, we have yet to hear a word of condemnation from the EU and the U.S. While comparisons of the Turkish situation to Russia may seem apt, it is much closer to home of many within the West. This is not just our story, but yours as well. Europeans have already seen Orban and the change in Hungary, and the recent wave of Trumpism in the US. This recent escalation by Erdogan is not isolated by any means. What happens here, will most likely follow elsewhere unless people get the courage to fight back. People should fight back. Institutions should fight back. Countries should fight back. This, dear viewers, is where you come in. It is easy to despair when looking at this situation, but you can write to your representatives and demand them to condemn the dictatorial regime of ErdoÄan and demand them to sanction the AKP regime. You can also stay informed by following these accounts:
x.com/imamoglu_int
x.com/rojdaaltintas
x.com/YusufCan_EN
x.com/solcugazeteD
x.com/hazardost
Now, some of you mightāve noticed that we used the term fascistic to describe ErdoÄan and his regime. There is a lot of academic debate regarding what exactly fascism is, but weād like to provide a simpler answer to this debate: the answer is this. This is what fascism is. The reason why us, Turkish people, donāt simply call the ErdoÄan regime authoritarian, but rather fascist is that because even before all of this he was an authoritarian. The word āauthoritarianā at this point does no justice to describe his dictatorial regime. From the regimeās authoritarianism, its militarism, its characterization by a dictatorial figure, and its tendency to disappear political rivals, there is no term more apt than fascist to describe the AKP regime.
A misconception one might have is that this is a CHP-led movement. This is simply not true. From communists and socialists to democrats, liberals, nationalists to even libertarians, many have joined this fight. This is a peopleās led movement. Weād like to end this video with a slogan used during the nationwide protests: āshoulder to shoulder against fascism.ā There is a long road ahead of us, we donāt know if weāre going to be successful. We donāt know if there is a light at the end of this tunnel, but what we do know is that we must continue resisting against fascism, shoulder to shoulder.
Thank you for listening.
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In Mexico an organisation of mothers of Cartel victims found a "death camp" at a ranch. Where the Jalisco cartel systematically murdered at least a thousand people and disposed of their bodies in crematoria. The local government is now trying to cover it up. Mexican friends of mine therefore asked me to use my platform to share the news and reporting on this with you: english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-17/at-theā¦
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Dear @BBCNews in case you have not noticed or somehow missed out on the last 20 years, the Putin regime in Russia is a brutal dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons, disappears, tortures, and murders anyone who opposes it. So could you stop asking Russian anti-war activists (including the one who is a friend of mine) to go on a "debate panel" to "debate" pro-war Russian regime propagandists, and thereby identify themselves to the Russian regime? Your job is to report the news, and not to emulate the morons that inhabit twitch.
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Hey everyone, my friend and old work college turkbud has just started his own youtube channel called āŖ@beaconinsightā¬ . I appear in the first episode aswell, you should check it out, it's really really good. The art is beautiful. The video is about a hostage crisis in Japan.
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My friend āŖ@VatnikSoupā¬ made a video explaining what the Russian shaddow fleet is. Worth a watch!
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Welcome to my Channel. I try to do researched content about various topics ranging from history, anthropology, geography, culture and more and more and more. I have a long list, and yeah I actually have a list of videos that I want to make in the future. I constantly update that list and post it in the community tab monthly. My patreons then vote on which topic comes next. The process by which I currently work is to make a short video (about 12-30 minutes long) followed by a long video (about 1-2 hours long) and to try to do two videos a month. I hope you enjoy what I have made if you want to leave feedback or criticism and you want me to see it, there is a feedback tab on my discord server where I read and take note on what my audience believes should be changed,or what I got wrong, or take suggestions for topics.
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