Imamoglu, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, accused the US and Europe of prioritizing geopolitical interests over democratic values.
“Their silence is deafening,” Imamoglu wrote of world governments. “Washington merely expressed ‘concerns regarding recent arrests and protests’ in Turkey. With few exceptions, European leaders have failed to offer a strong response.”
Most European leaders are deathly afraid of immigrants, as that’s the main fuel to the fire of alt right.
And Turkey is a ever so slightly autocratic doorstop, holding back hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a way that’s not entirely legal in Europe.
So they are all ignoring Erdogansb fucking around because he’s holding back the déluge they fear.