Over a million Turks say ‘Enough’ to Erdogan on social media

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erdogan-warnsMore than a million Turks piled onto social media to call time on President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, making the word “Tamam” (“Enough”) a trending topic worldwide after he promised to step down if the people wanted it.

“If one day our nation says ‘enough’, then we will step aside,” Erdogan said in a speech in parliament.

The most popular – and divisive – politician in recent Turkish history, Erdogan has ruled for 15 years, overseeing a period of sharp economic growth and a widespread crackdown against his opponents. Last month he declared snap elections for June 24, bringing the polls forward by more than a year.

Soon after the speech, the #Tamam hashtag swept across Turkish-language Twitter, then became a global trending topic.

“We want democracy so we say #enough to Erdogan. Please leave your seat, you did insane things to our country and people. Enough,” said one user.

“You will not step aside quietly. You will give account for the things you did. Enough!” said another.

Erdogan’s rivals in the presidential polls also jumped in, with the “Tamam” tweets from three of his main opponents together garnering more than 10,000 retweets.

“Time is up. Enough!” tweeted Muharrem Ince, the candidate of the main opposition CHP.

Social media has become the primary platform for opposition against the government in Turkey, where traditional media is saturated with coverage of Erdogan and his ministers. Erdogan’s speeches, usually two or three a day, are all broadcast live on major channels, while opposition parties get little to no coverage.

“Very strange”

The “Tamam” tweets also provided a rare moment of opposition unity with all major parties, including the pro-Kurdish opposition uniting behind the hashtag. Pro-Kurdish politicians and Turkish nationalists rarely find common ground.

“Enough: It’s very strange that Erdogan has offered the opposition a uniting slogan,” tweeted journalist Rusen Cakir.

The government, however, dismissed the social media wave, which had accumulated close to 1.5 million posts by Tuesday night, saying the posts were sent by online bots associated with Kurdish PKK militants and Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed by Ankara for a 2016 failed coup attempt.

“Most are being sent from countries where the FETO and PKK are active. Most are bot accounts. We can also understand Greece, but what about those inside (Turkey),” said Mahir Unal, spokesman for Erdogan’s ruling AK Party.

FETO is an acronym for Gulen’s network of supporters.

“The keyboard heroes who don’t know what the ballot boxes mean, we will see each other on the night of June 24,” Unal wrote on Twitter.

Several people also took to the streets across Istanbul, some spelling out “TAMAM” with candles on pavements and roads. In the Kadikoy district, 10 demonstrators were detained, but later released after questioning, local media said.

Rights groups and Turkey’s Western allies have criticised Ankara for its deteriorating record on civil rights and have voiced concerns that the NATO member is sliding further into authoritarianism under Erdogan.

The government rejects such criticism and says its security measures are necessary due to the threats it faces.

After the June election, Turkey will switch to a powerful, executive presidential system that was narrowly approved in a referendum last year.

(REUTERS)/France24

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26 responses to “Over a million Turks say ‘Enough’ to Erdogan on social media”

  1. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Brave Turks say enough to Erdogan

    1. PatienceTew Avatar
      PatienceTew

      Don’t you mean ‘ErDogAn’?

      1. Niemals Avatar
        Niemals

        He claimed that Turks serving in various European governments were working to undermine Turkey, and called on his supporters living in Europe to get educated and win their own places in those governments. “European Turks must show their strength to the whole world,” …. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9db01304aa6f5b728e7a82add2fb48fc1779b87abda8c16b9660e99237e82012.jpg
        Now he declared it; “I am your protector”, Erdogan tells EU’s Muslims. ????
        ???? Don’t you get it Erdogan? Enough is enough! ????

    2. Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day. With you it’s like once a month. Or a year. 🙂

  2. Errordogan or Furerdogan

  3. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Erdoğan speech backfires, because it created the widespread ‘enough’ hashtag. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ba9ae1144234116234b380379d85d9d987fe8c65a0925dd45783c63468a9dce0.jpg The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has criticized an opposition Twitter campaign telling the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “tamam” ahead of the June 24 election, saying it is sponsored by foreign powers.

    Prominent AKP officials subsequently condemned the campaign as a foreign-backed plot.…..

    Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said “power comes from the polls, not from Twitter.”
    “Black propaganda from the virtual world has no value for us. It is virtual. We consider reality,” Bozdağ said.

    Despite the fact that over a million Turks have believed that the hashtag on social media is where the politics are created, we can just conclude that it is only a Twitter Trump syndrome.

    The British have believed that social media is the right way to influence policies via social media – like the attempt to cancel the Brexit election results, and we know how it has ended with this kind of ‘policies’ created by social media.

  4. “Over a million Turks say ‘Enough’ to Erdogan on social media”

    Sadly, that’s not enough. Not by a long shot.

    1. Niemals Avatar
      Niemals

      Erdogan on social media”…
      https://youtu.be/20PymBaVtko “I am your protector”, Erdogan tells EU’s Muslims. ????
      ???? Don’t you get it Erdogan? Enough is enough! ????

      1. Niemals Avatar
        Niemals

        …and now he admits that it is a result of a Photo Shop processing… “In other words manipulated edition of The Jewish Western Bullettin ????” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0dc6518964caa273027f77dff5f0f31f17bdf65a829f492e17c72b2e5f10e54b.jpg spread on Twitter and retweeted by Hindenburg.

  5. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Erdogan plays a dangerous game with his ‘taking care’ of refugees because we him to do it.

    There is no war in Lebanon, but the Lebanese still turning up in Germany as ‘refugees’.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e22315e1a57d7095fcc66ed4434591757f73719ad9df6cb479746953a356aba7.jpg
    Who do they try to deceive?

    Deport this knife-swinging 16-year-old Lebanese back home.
    He fled from the refugee shelter with knives, and has injured three Polizisten.

    It seems that in Lebanon they don’t bother to take care of they own children.

  6. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Before the parliamentary and presidential elections on June 24, Erdoğan uses every opportunity to win over voters. Also abroad!
    On Sunday he will speak in Sarajevo to thousands of Turks living in Europe.

  7. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Now he declared it; “I am your protector”, Erdogan tells EU’s Muslims. ????
    ???? Don’t you get it Erdogan? Enough is enough! ????

    Erdogan condemned Europe’s treatment of Turks yesterday as he used a fiery speech at a rally on European soil to present himself as champion of the continent’s Muslims.
    Outrageous!

  8. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    The article is about “Over a million Turks say ‘Enough’ to Erdoğan on social media”, and when I add more ‘meat on the bone’, it turns to be detected as spam… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/368a9c1292041ef30218c1c4c131d5ed32ace360813699b9e0494eaab1bc4241.jpg

  9. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    How can Israel harm itself if it recognizes ‘Armenian Holocaust’?

    Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman cautions Israel against recognizing 20th century Armenian Genocide after Knesset speaker backs the idea amid diplomatic spat between Jerusalem and Ankara. ????????

    ???? “We believe that the fact that Israel is placing the events of 1915 on the same level as the Holocaust will cause harm to (Israel) itself,” said a spokesman for Turkey’s Foreign Ministry to a group of journalists. ????

  10. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Will it be detected as spam?
    Once more I point out that you can’t trust Muslims, Sunni Muslims or Shia Muslims.

    A secretive sensation:
    Erdoğan calls for the conquest of the German parliaments in Bosnia and intensifies the double-pass conflict.
    https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1000336194541146112

  11. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Merkel’s asylum seeker…, I don’t trust Muslims, Sunni Muslims or Shia Muslims. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6aa1b2d54f7bea59a4c73121da221a99b3e4432dd84f7a3d0af5904004ae6ce8.jpg Mia († 15), Ayesha († 1), Lica († 33) and Maria († 84) could still live if the authorities in Germany and other European countries had not failed https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc3f608b232a0553312a7f7253fc0d4ecea42598007bd72f8d99ddcdafe6bfd3.jpg Their life was ended in the most brutal way.
    They were killed, stabbed, thrown away for dying. But their murderers have one thing in common: they all had to be deported long ago or not even allowed to be in Germany. https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1000333189842460672

  12. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Some more evidence that you shouldn’t trust Muslims,
    https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1000337727848665088 no matter if they are Sunni Muslims or Shia Muslims.

  13. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    In France, a political magazine is causing a stir, calling Turkish President Erdogan a “dictator.” Some of his followers are outraged. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3793349ef601c7c4ce8486769409c237ac71529ef1fc59d15ac7e69035835cd7.jpg Head of State Macron puts himself on the side of the journalists.

    The well-known political magazine “Le Point” shows a photo of Recep Tayyip Erdogan with his headline “Der Dictator.” Where is Erdogan going?
    The editorial raises the question: “Is Erdogan a new Hitler?”

  14. Niemals Avatar

    Turkey’s elections:
    The latest updates, any new election tactics? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd75c55a73319a0fee5338d65994f55a6a0768bd84178f7fe0ff64061f79dda8.jpg

    Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım accused Israel on Friday of tampering with the Eurovision Song Contest results so it could win it with Netta Barzilai’s song “Toy.”

    “The Israeli singer wasn’t good. Israel is only able to kill, not to sing,” he charged during an interview with Turkish Babala TV.

    Yıldırım implied Israel had faked its win in order to hold next year’s Eurovision in Jerusalem and instigate a religious war.

    “The song contest this year developed to an ideological thing. For the first time, they let Israel win the competition so that they can host it next year,” he claimed.
    https://www.memri.org/tv/turkish-president-erdogan-warns-war-between-cross-and-crescent

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