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Top Comments: Notebook #144: A New York Times bonanza [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
I’ve missed all of you, as I haven’t written a Top Comments diary, it seems, for awhile, for several reasons (illness, plain oversleeping, etc. etc.) and, in fact, I just woke up and looked at The New York Times and ...the world seems to be exploding. I’m going to do something that I normally don’t do….this Top Comments diary will be about politics.
The first story that struck me was an Opinion piece by the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is currently being detained by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Realizing he cannot defeat me at the ballot box, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has resorted to other means: having his main political opponent arrested on charges of corruption, bribery, leading a criminal network and aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, even though the charges lack credible evidence. I was suspended from my elected office over the financial charges. For years, Mr. Erdogan’s regime has gnawed away at democratic checks and balances — silencing the media, replacing elected mayors with bureaucrats, sidelining the legislature, controlling the judiciary and manipulating elections. The large-scale arrests of protesters and journalists in recent months have sent a chilling message: No one is safe. Votes can be nullified and freedoms can be stripped away in an instant. Under Mr. Erdogan, the republic has been transformed into a republic of fear.
Allow me to be petty for a minute but...it is The New York fuc*ing Times! Can’t they print stories with the proper diacritical marks?
Anyway, opposition party leaders and dissenters are being picked up all over the world; no wonder that people like now former Yale professor Timothy Snyder (among others) are leaving this country.
I worry about the brain drain (more on that later).
And yes, I do worry, a little, about being picked up off the streets myself. In fact, I’ve already had that conversation with Mom. If I am deemed to be so important and dangerous (I don’t think that I am) as to be detained by this administration, then so be it. It means that I must be doing something right.
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