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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 22

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Michaela Kuefner

      So you know his loyalties lie with an autocratic strongman who jails journalists and political rivals. Don’t for one moment confuse criticism for supporting an Islamist tyrant with “racism.” Racism against people of Turkish heritage is a real thing in Germany. This isn’t it.https://twitter.com/MKuefner/status/1021096958809780224 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Michaela Kuefner @MKuefner
      #German national player Mezut #Oezil withdraws from #Germany national team over “racism” and “disrespect” ending debate over his dual Turkish-German identity - took photo with #Erdogan. This could take Integration debate in Germany to a new level after it has seen new recent lows https://twitter.com/MesutOzil1088/status/1021093637411700741 …
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    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 22

      No Turk who values progressive, democratic values, human rights, or freedom would proudly take a photo with Erdoğan. This isn’t about Turkish heritage, it’s about being a poster-boy for what Erdoğan stands for. If he were of American heritage, it’d be like a photo with Trump.

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 22
      Replying to @mounial92

      You’re Turksplaining, my man. (Şöyle iki dakikalık bir araştırma yapsaydın kendini böyle küçük düşürmezdin.) PS. Erdoğan is an Islamist who terrorises people. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. And don’t you dare correlate being Turkish with supporting your sorry sultan.

      5:57 PM - 22 Jul 2018
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        2. Uğurcan‏ @Ugurcan377 Jul 22
          Replying to @aral @mounial92

          Guess you encounter a lot of çomar's trying to play ignorant racist Westener card on you. Talking about them çomarsplaining also sounds good.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. mounial‏ @mounial92 Jul 23
          Replying to @Ugurcan377 @aral

          Sure by saying çomar you already show how you view other people’s views. That’s exactly why you and people like you will never understand what is going on. Your smug, egoistic and self-pleasing attitude only makes me smile. If you don’t have anything to say don’t tweet.

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        4. Uğurcan‏ @Ugurcan377 Jul 23
          Replying to @mounial92 @aral

          woof woof woof woof.

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        2. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 22
          Replying to @aral @mounial92

          "Erdogan is a Muslim and fights terrorists" Fredric Brown - Horror/Sci-Fi Short-Shorts (1957)

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        3. mounial‏ @mounial92 Jul 23
          Replying to @Pretendedv2 @aral

          Again count the terrorist Turkey has killed in the past decade vs Germany or France. Our efforts vs terrorism is big. Ah you don’t consider PKK or YPG as terrosist or ISIS? Not to talk about the amount of refugees taken on by Turkey because of wrong Western politics. Wake up!

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        4. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 23
          Replying to @mounial92 @aral

          Oh well, Mr so-very-tall dictated Fidan to conduct Oslo negotiations with PKK as well as mayora to turn a blind eye to their operations, in his own words. Plus, I still remember tomb of Suleyman Shah "thanks to the corridor" created by PYD. ++

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        5. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 23
          Replying to @Pretendedv2 @mounial92 @aral

          I have a folder of pictures and excerpts from the catastrophically short-sighted "Çözüm Süreci" I can provide with momentarily should your false memory of fight aganst terrorism fail to be replaced. ISIS? LOL,Mr Not-so-very-tall used to call them "a bunch of furious Sunni youth"

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        6. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 23
          Replying to @Pretendedv2 @mounial92 @aral

          Thanks to aftermath of "Çözüm Süreci" and mindless Syrian politics that only hd establishing a Sunni fascism in Syria in mind that enabled PYD/YPG to be regarded as "allies" by the West and Russia against ISIS and its ilk, around 600 soldiers/policemen and another 100 were killed

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        7. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 23
          Replying to @Pretendedv2 @mounial92 @aral

          TL;DR, feck off with your unwarrantes, baseless, myopic "fight vs terrorism oh it is so big" fuckery. Soldiers, civilians and policemen have died because of your idol's ballot-box-oriented politics. I am blocking like your kind deserves in a minute.

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        8. Pretended ʀᴇᴀʟ ʙᴇᴛɪꜱ‏ @Pretendedv2 Jul 23
          Replying to @Pretendedv2 @mounial92 @aral

          Sorry for my mistakes of first-kill-the-troll-with-fire-in the-morning. My eyes barely started operating and oh those "dolma" fingers, oh, them.

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