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Turkey bans Richard Dawkins

Jihad in modern Turkey

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Insulting Erdogan

The "Valley of the Wolves" movies


Modern Turkey

Turkey is now listed as "Not Free" (i.e. a dictatorship) by Freedom House.

Turkey must never be allowed to join the EU. It does not belong there, until it totally changes. Every country in the EU is "Free" except one. (The exception is Hungary, which has just dipped across the border into "Partly Free".)




Turkey is listed as "Not Free" by Freedom House 2018.



Michael Coren summarises why Turkey does not belong in the EU.



Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the sinister, thin-skinned, autocrat of Turkey.
Cartoon by Martin Rowson. From here.






Freedom of religion

  


Free speech



Even in 2011, a simple statement of disbelief in Islam is still illegal in Turkey.
Cartoonist Bahadir Baruter included in this cartoon the statement: "There is no Allah, religion is a lie."
In Sept 2011, Turkey charged him with "insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population".
Some "secular" state this is!



Turkey fined a local TV station for "blasphemy" in Dec 2012 for transmitting the "Treehouse of Horror XXII" episode of The Simpsons (Oct 2011).
In the story "Dial D for Diddly", Homer says God does not exist, and starts burning Ned's bible, only to be stopped and killed by God himself. However, God reveals that Satan really runs the world. God has to follow his orders. Also, Satan is sleeping with Ned's deceased wife.
Above, Satan orders God to get him a coffee.
Such comedy is illegal in "secular" Turkey.






Turkey bans Richard Dawkins



Jihad in modern Turkey



Deaths from terrorism per year in Turkey.
From datagraver.com, as at Jan 2017.


  

Erdogan and an Ottoman - Islamist Turkey



Disturbing early Islamist speech made by Erdogan in 1993 before he got into power.



"A Genocide Denied is A Genocide Repeated".
From Armenian Genocide Museum of America.
Erdogan denies both the Armenian genocide and the Darfur genocide.





Insulting Erdogan

It has long been a crime in Turkey to insult the butcher Ataturk. It is now a crime to insult the modern day autocrat Erdogan.

Unbelievably, this protection of the Turkish thug is now being extended to a supposedly free country, Germany.



"Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan" (2016) by German political satire show "extra 3".
A satirical video that Turkish strongman Erdogan has "demanded" Germany remove from the Internet.



In response to the "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan" controversy, German comedian Jan Böhmermann read a deliberately offensive poem about Erdogan: "He is the man who beats girls and wears rubber masks while doing so. His favourite thing is to fuck goats and to oppress minorities. To kick Kurds, to hit Christians, and to watch kiddie porn, and even at night, instead of sleeping, he thinks of fellatio with a hundred sheep. Yes Erdogan is fully and completely, a president with a small dick." See text.
Click to play. Copy from here.



German Chancellor Angela Merkel does Erdogan's bidding.
Erdogan is a threat to European freedoms.
From Vive Charlie!



Erdogan brought legal action to try to suppress this Dutch cartoon in Dec 2017.






The "Valley of the Wolves" movies



Trailer of Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011).
See movie.



The Turkish terrorist team arrives in Israel.
And they are meant to be the good guys!



Sorry Turks, these are the real heroes.






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Blocked on X by the regressive left and Islamists: I love debate. I love ideas. But the Western left and their friends the Islamic right do not return the favour. Their response to opposing ideas, whether expressed politely or robustly, is often to block. See Who blocks me on X.

I like debate. But I do have rules. See Who I block on X.

Twitter is broken, 2016 to 2022: I am on X (formerly Twitter) at markhumphrys. Twitter was a great place for debate before 2016. You could meet everyone in the world, and argue about ideas. Starting in 2016, Twitter became increasingly broken. It became full of reporting and bans and censorship. In 2019, Twitter even started shadowbanning me for no reason that was ever explained, or could be appealed. By 2022, everyone was looking for a better place to debate.

Twitter is saved, 2022: In 2022 Elon Musk bought Twitter and started to end the censorship. It looks great so far. Twitter (renamed to X) seems to be saved.

Campaigns to silence me: I now have no less than two entries on the Banned List at Academics for Academic Freedom. This is a list of "individuals who were banned from speaking at universities in the UK and Ireland, or faced campaigns to silence them, or sack them for their views." The two campaigns to silence me were the BLM protests in 2021 (unsuccessful) and the Israel debate in 2024 (partially successful, in that it drove the debate off campus).