<story><title>Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all</title><url>http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-07/turkish-academics-human-rights-ban-travel-recep-tayyip-erdogan/komplettansicht</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gokhan</author><text>An atheist, lefty dev from Turkey here. Never voted for Erdogan and never will. I&amp;#x27;ll dance when he legitimately GTFO, be it election, sickness, his death, legal trial, anything normal in life.&lt;p&gt;But not via a bloody coup. That night, half of the military elite turned against their own people, ordered opening fire to crowds and National Assembly. Some people died on the street in pajamas, think how impulsive people&amp;#x27;s response was against the coup.&lt;p&gt;Mentally, Turkey is a very separated country. There&amp;#x27;s almost no way to unite Erdogan followers with left wing secularists and Kurds. But we are all united against the coup and there are almost no doubt that Gulenists are behind this bloody adventure. For the last 17-18 years, various layers of Turkey came against Gulen and realized how brutal he is against any idea criticizing him. The last layer left was Erdogan&amp;#x27;s followers and they also saw the truth in the last 3 years in two different occasions.&lt;p&gt;Erdogan is still Erdogan, he was on his way to dictatorship and shows signs of using the situation in that way. His past actions makes us believe that. But we still can hope to overthrow him with an election, as we nearly did in June 2015. But there&amp;#x27;s no way to get rid of any general in power because of a bloody coup. Turkey got 3 successful coups in history and we can see clearly how those times held us back in the world scene. We don&amp;#x27;t want any more of that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all</title><url>http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-07/turkish-academics-human-rights-ban-travel-recep-tayyip-erdogan/komplettansicht</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kweks</author><text>This has been going on for years under Tayyip unfortunately. Around the time of the Gezi protests, I had several renouned journalist friends with high-profile jobs (hurriyet etc) that were immediately axed: their publishers were given the &amp;#x27;choice&amp;#x27; of purging or being shut-down.&lt;p&gt;The only silver-lining is that Tayyip is now under the international spotlight; even if he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to care, at least more people are aware.</text></comment>