Just Some Things Turkey’s President Erdogan Doesn’t Want You To See

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By Heat Street Staff | 6:00 am, July 21, 2016
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Turkey’s brutal purge continues apace, with the Erdogan government today declaring a state of emergency, handing itself even more repressive powers.

The devil we don’t know failed, and the devil we do will now get worse – more paranoid and more prone to quashing dissent than before.

Pre-coup, Erdogan locked up journalists, bullied the opposition, stifled Kurdish dissidents and even tried to get a Germany comedian locked up for insulting him – prompting a masterful riposte from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

At Heat Street, we’re none too keen on any of that (except Boris’ poem, which is excellent). So here’s a collection of things President Erdogan would rather forget – protests, cartoons, caricatures and images showing the sheer strength of feeling against him on his own doorstep:

 

 

 

Members of the main opposition Republican People's Party march to the Education Ministry to protest against the government's education policies and President Yayyip Erdogan's desire to create an "Islamic youth", in Ankara, on December 9, 2014,The banner reads: " Contemporary education is under threat." AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish protesters march on Erdogan’s education ministry in late 2014. They hold a banner showing him as a sinister Sultan figure, a reference to his efforts to inject more religion into the school system and create an “Islamic youth”

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A topless activists for the Femen group is arrested by police with the word “dictator” scrawled across her body in red paint in July 2013

 

Istanbul, TURKEY: A supporter of the Republican People's Party (CHP) carries a placard protesting Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP (Justice and Development Party) in Istanbul 20 July 2007. The AKP should be returned to power in 22 July elections, picking up more than 40 percent of the vote and over 300 seats in the 550-seat parliament, an opinion poll published 19 July said. Poster reads "Rupublic is not for sale, CHP Beyoglu (party branch)." AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
Erdogan is branded as a money-hungry sellout by opponents in the Turkish Republican People’s Party in July 2007. The text reads “the Republic is not for sale”

BEIRUT, LEBANON: A Lebanese Armenian holds up a picture of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's during a protest against his two-day official visit 15 June 2005. Erdogan is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon today. AFP PHOTO HAITHAM MUSSAWI (Photo credit should read HAITHAM MUSSAWI/AFP/Getty Images)
A blunt protester in Lebanon holds up an image of disfigured Erdogan in June 2005. She was part of an Armenian group demanding that Turkey acknowledge the Armenian genocide of 195-1917, a point of contention in Turkish politics
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 31: Protestors rallying against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gesture toward his motorcade as it exits outside of the Brookings Institution, March 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. Erdogan met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden this morning and is also scheduled to dedicate a new Islamic cultural center in suburban Washington on Saturday. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Protesters keep up the pressure, more than 11 years later at a rally in Washington, DC, this March when Erdogan visited the US

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 31: Protestors rally against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside of the Brookings Institution, March 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. After meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden this morning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to speak inside the Brookings Institute this afternoon. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Erdogan is mocked as an Ottoman-era Sultan trying to subjugate the secular Turkish state by a US protester
Police officers detain after catching a Kurdish man while people run away as Turkish riot policemen use rubber bullet to prevent people from gathering for Newroz celebration in Istanbul, on March 20, 2016. Turkey is on a knife-edge after five major bombings that have killed over 200 people since July, three of which have been blamed on IS while Kurdish groups have been accused of carrying out the others. Embarrassed by accusations of security lapses, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at journalists, activists and intellectuals who criticise his renewed battle against the Kurds, calling them "accomplices" of terror. / AFP / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish riot police violently detain a Kurdish dissident in Istanbul this March. Rubber bullets were used on the crowds
TOPSHOT - Turkish riot police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse supporters at Zaman daily newspaper headquarters in Istanbul on March 5, 2016. An Istanbul court on March 4, 2016 ordered into administration a Turkish Zaman daily newspaper that is sharply critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid growing alarm over freedom of expression in the country. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
Water canon and tear gas are deployed on people gathered outside the offices of the Zaman newspaper in Istanbul, demanding that Erdogan cease his campaign to oppress the media

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