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The Grand Turk
Jailed Turkish philanthropist awaits his fate under Erdogan's wrath
2021-10-19
[Rudaw] Jailed without a conviction since 2017, Ottoman Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala says he feels like a tool in President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
's attempts to blame a foreign plot for domestic dissent against his mercurial rule.

A gaunt and bearded intellectual who once patronised culture and the arts, the 64-year-old Kavala makes a striking foil for Erdogan, a promoter of political Islam who has governed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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