Selahattin Demirtaş

Demirtaş responded from his Twitter account, which is managed by his lawyers. “Erdoğan says he will execute me if he is elected. Just look at the promise of a presidential candidate in Turkey in 2018? I will sacrifice my life a thousand time for my people. I won’t make a single steo back,” Demirtaş said.

Erdoğan mulling to bring back death penalty, with God’s will

Erdoğan mulling to bring back death penalty, with God’s will

Regress is progress. This could be one of the doublethink slogans of Ingsoc omitted by George Orwell in his magnum opus 1984. But under Tayyip Erdoğan and his ultra-right allies who helped him be reelected for a second term, albeit this time with full presidential powers, doublethink is far from being fiction – and dystopia […]