Quote Originally Posted by Dooch View Post
As someone of Turkish ethnicity, what are you thoughts on Gen Z’s views?

If you were living In Turkey would you align with them, Ergodan or maybe lie somewhere else?
Gen Z has a point in Turkey. They have been choked by an incompetent & out of touch government. The education system alone is enough to oppose the government. Kids study more religion then they do maths and science. They removed the theory of evolution from the curriculum even though Turkey was one of the first countries to add it into the curriculum way back in the 20's. There's no hope for them. They won't get jobs unless they know some people in powerful places. There's gross injustice in Turkey. They are all aware of this to, Turks are highly active on social media and it's common to see people notice certain students for example getting the lowest scores in exams but somehow finding top jobs in universities or state companies because they are related to members of parliament. The AKP's youth wing for example, all the young kids there are millionaires. People see this gross injustice and it's caused them to absolutely detest Islamists in Turkey. In fact Deism is on the rise in Turkey, young people are saying 'if this is their religion, they can fuck off'.
Even media wise. Over a month ago a popular comedian passed away. The youth didn't really know him much because he was popular in the 90's. He was infact a drag queen and had a show on prime time TV. Gen Z were shocked at the videos, there was a drag Queen on prime time Turkish TV telling incredibly lewd jokes. In one show the then President was their and the Drag Queen made a dick joke about him. Then ofcourse the Erdogan years came and that drag Queen was shadow banned from TV. They see the change now and understand just whats gone on.

Erdogan has turned Turkey into a party state, his family and friends run the show. His buddies get the juiciest government contracts. His son appoints general managers in state run companies. His son-in law is the minister of finance and a billionaire thanks to Erdogan, he is also the 2nd most powerful guy in Turkey. His other son-in law an MIT grad is Turkey's number one military drone provider. Erdogan's school buddies now run Turkey's biggest companies. Erdogan put a wrestler, a guy with no high school diploma onto the board of a state bank. Guys with degrees in theology and islamic studies run Turkey's economy. Meritocracy long fucked off. Ofcourse this system of total control, sticking your own guys in positions of power well they learn't all that from good ol Fethullah Gulen the islamist cult leader in the US. Erdogan basically replaced Gulen as the leader of Turkey's main Islamist cult. Gulen helped him gain power, they worked together to destroy the common foe which was the secularists and military. Then they went at each other.

Erdogan regularly defies the constitution to. The constitutional court rules in favour of the opposition but lower courts who must obey them by constitutional law, simply tell the top courts to fuck off. The main leader of the Kurdish party is in prison, the courts have said let this guy go. Turkey's most secular nationalistic institutions who don't even like the dude in prison have said 'this is wildly unjust let him go'. The smaller local judge says no. The smaller pro-government judge has more power than the supreme court. Just the other day Erdogan's interior minister threatened the head of the court. He was like 'mr judge how about you go around without police protection, lets see what happens'. Thing is in Turkey we know in the 90's and before if minister said this they would be forced to resign but times have changed.

Like they turned Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. The way they presented it was as if they reconquered the city, yeah but who are you conquering it from? Ataturk turned it into a museum. This backfired on the government because people saw it as an attempt to override the decisions made by Ataturk. Still to this day Ataturk is Erdogan's number 1 political rival. The mans been dead for 80 years but in order to protect themselves from the Islamists in Turkey people are clinging onto him more than ever.

So how comes with all this crap doesn't the opposition win? I mean elections are actually quite free there is no vote rigging. Up to the last elections all the candidates the opposition fielded where the same old dudes who nobody cared for. In the last local elections they finally picked new blood and it worked. The AKP lost all major cities bar one. They got hammered in Istanbul the gap was 800k votes which is huge. The economy and Syrians being the reason but people had enough. If either the Mayor of Istanbul or Mayor of Ankara goes up against Erdogan they will win. I'm in support of the Mayor of Ankara though, he has done brilliantly in trolling Erdogan's goons. When the media talks shit about him he quickly phones in and slams some documents in their faces and embarrasses them on live TV. When Covid kicked off he quickly organised a fundraiser and helped the poor. The government saw this and they banned the bank accounts used by the fundraiser. He didn't quit and found another way to feed the poor. He doesn't take the governments shit at all. He hired Turkish kids who graduated in Ivy league schools to help him out, he openly calls the educated ones back. He is also an old school nationalist who opposed the Gulenist cult from day one. So nobody can call him a terrorist. He also has excellent relations with Gen Z and is the most popular politicians among them. It's all about whether the leaders of the opposition are smart enough to show him as candidate & well they aren't that smart unfortunately.