In 1998 Amnesty International fought for Erdogan's release from Prison. Now he arrests Amnesty Turkey's head https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/07/turkey-must-free-jailed-human-rights-defenders/ … lol
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Sahil Shetty... Sigh
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"There is to be no civil society, no criticism and no accountability in Erdoğan’s Turkey." Civil society is a social construct. A fraud.
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It could have a coherent meaning but in reality it's always used to mean Western Foundation sponsored NGOs.
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It can't. It ties directly into anarchistic ontology.The idea of an arena of non-gov which a government then subsumes for its own good.
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Are you saying intermediating institutions simply don't exist? But temple foundations, societies of ascetics, etc existed in India.
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The role of the Kshatriya King was absolute obviously but these were all allowed and not interfered with.
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I'm aware that here I'm using 'civil society' in a nonpolitical sense. Not agitative organizations
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That's not what is being discussed in this situation.
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