Opponents top Twitter in bid to topple Turkey's Erdoğan

[Ryujin]

Rivals respond to president’s offer to stand aside if country says ‘enough’ in June election

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has vowed to step down if his people decide they have had “enough”, prompting opponents to propel the word in Turkish, tamam, to the top of worldwide Twitter trends.

Erdoğan will contest a presidential election on 24 June, seeking to extend his 15 years in power which began when he became the prime minister in 2003 and continued with his move to the presidency in 2014.

His ruling party is confident of victory in the polls but the country remains polarised.

Erdoğan, speaking to his Justice and Development party in Ankara on Tuesday, said his foes “have just one care – to destroy Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. If, one day, our nation says ‘enough’, then we will move to the side,” he said, referring to himself in the first person plural.

Opponents rapidly seized on the word and turned it into the top Twitter trend around the world, with more than 450,000 tweets by Tuesday afternoon.

Some simply tweeted the word in bold letters with spaces – T A M A M – while others added slogans and gifs.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...urkeys-erdogan

[Ryujin]

Akşener's TAMAM tweet has gotten over 80k likes.

IYI Party is coming! Akşener will be the President and Turkey will revert to Ataturk's path.

[Marmara]

Akşener's TAMAM tweet has gotten over 80k likes.

IYI Party is coming! Akşener will be the President and Turkey will revert to Ataturk's path.

You are underestimating the Çomars, they have no access to social media that's why it creates false image.

[Petros Houhoulis]

You are underestimating the Çomars, they have no access to social media that's why it creates false image.

You have Bori and that British dog in this forum alone. They are present everywhere, but in small numbers, and they barely understand English...

[Andromega123]

You are underestimating the Çomars, they have no access to social media that's why it creates false image.

Just check Facebook to see them all. They are using that platform. But i warn you about disgust.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Just check Facebook to see them all. They are using that platform. But i warn you about disgust.

Now we can rest assured that if the Iron lady ever becomes president, her first act would be to ban facebook in Turkey...

[Andromega123]

Now we can rest assured that if the Iron lady ever becomes president, her first act would be to ban facebook in Turkey...

Absolutely and she must do that for health of the country.
Because all of unemployed fanatics, sharia lovers and ignorants which have some money are using that platform to write their propaganda texts.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Absolutely and she must do that for health of the country.
Because all of unemployed fanatics, sharia lovers and ignorants which have some money are using that platform to write their propaganda texts.

Look, I sympathize with your view, but I believe that instead of having a section of the internet banned every time you change leadership, you'd better resolve this issue once and for all:

internetshouldbeillegal.com

[Andromega123]

Look, I sympathize with your view, but I believe that instead of having a section of the internet banned every time you change leadership, you'd better resolve this issue once and for all:

internetshouldbeillegal.com

Even that site is forbidden in Turkey.
I am just studying at this country but i can't understand that how Turkish people live with these condutions.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Even that site is forbidden in Turkey.
I am just studying at this country but i can't understand that how Turkish people live with these condutions.

They also don't understand how they are capable of living with these conditions, but they can't figure of anything better. Take a look at Bori, he is proud and desperate to be Turk in the same measure...