Media & pundits frame the 300 Boing deal as a personal present by Erdoğan to Trump. But it’s not some “unpredictable deal-making”. THY said in 2023 that the will buy hundreds of planes to have more than 800 by the time of its centenary in 2033. Question was just if Airbus or Boing gets the order.

There’s no actual deal though

Wir sind seit Jahren in der Defensive. Ständig Fakten checken, Lügen entkräften, Narrative dekonstruieren - während die Rechten ungehindert neue Giftpfeile schießen. Wir löschen Feuer, aber bauen kein Haus. Diese Taktik ist nicht Widerstand. Sie ist Erschöpfung.

What does governance look like when truth is tribal, deliberation is dead, and accountability is optional? That’s not democracy. It’s managed chaos, until it becomes enforced order.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

I will repeat myself but impossible not to. Ogawa‘s Memory Police has come into life in Turkey, which has become a country of disappearing objects as authoritarianism deepens.

Yozgat izlenimleri: Yozgatlılar bu çapta mitingi 1983’te Özal, 2002’de Erdoğan yapabildi. Biz 50 yıldır CHP’yi burada görmedik dediler. CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu?

aposto.com/s/yozgattan-...

When I argued the other day that nonviolent protests are not the most effective way to protest against democratic backsliding, some people got very angry. Contrary to what many of them argued, I wasn't making stuff up to defend the status quo. I study politics in an autocratic regime: Turkey.+

this is a good piece talking to @whitejenny.bsky.social, the rarest kind of writer who actually understands Islamists in Turkey

"Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America – Before It Is Too Late"

SCOTT CUMMINGS (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on the autocratic playbook behind targeting law firms, the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding, and why it's time for lawyers to take action now.

verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut...

It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.

There were always “Waffenbrüderschafts-Nostalgiker” around.
But path dependency and security interests seem to converge at the moment. Still, for Germany questions of polarized public opinion and democracy hardly can just be ignored for a new relationship with Turkey.

It is nothing more than an emotion-stoking hate machine aimed to forward the narrow political agenda and world view of its owner.

If you are still using it, be aware that you are deliberately exposing yourself to this.

The majority of the population in 🇹🇷 thinks there will be a new world war. Highest of all 14 countries assessed. 🇩🇪 perception is noteworthy and quite different in relation.

In order to make deals, sides have to be able to agree on the definition of some concepts along the way. Such as the goal, that is “peace”. They used the term continuously but what they meant did not align at all during the conversation.

Parliamentary arithmetic still matters.

A reminder that Turkey's governing party does not have a majority, and its de facto coalition does not wield a three-fifths majority in the Grand National Assembly.

You need the latter to change the constitution or call an early election.

Eternal heaven must be pretty awkward for Joseph