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#TwitterIsBlockedInTurkey: Turkish PM Erdogan mirrors PNoy style

March 21, 2014 benign0 2 Comments

Hours following an announcement by its prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has blocked its citizens’ access to Twitter last night. At his campaign rally in Bursa on the 20th of March, Erdoğan announced “We now have a court order. We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the…

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In One with the Gezi Park Resistance: I am also a ‘capulcu’ in solidarity to the Turkish People

June 9, 2013June 9, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 1 Comment

This is a response to the call of the eminent and radical American Professor Noam Chomsky with regard to his call to the world to support the Turkish Resistance/Occupy Movement. I overwhelmingly concur with the great professor in his stern condemnation of Turkey authorities’ brutal police crackdown on protesters who merely are denouncing the demolition…

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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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