Charlottesville

Since last week's horrific scenes of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, which resulted in deadly violence, American friends familiar with polarization in Turkish society in recent years keep telling me now they understand our despair.

Anti-fascist protesters chant slogans outside the American Embassy in central Athens during a rally Thursday marking the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday at a counterdemonstration in response to a white supremacist rally.

With tears and defiant tributes, hundreds of purple-clad people packed an historic Charlottesville theater on Aug. 16 to remember the 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators.

U.S. President Donald Trump disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils on Aug. 16 after several chief executives quit in protest over his remarks blaming weekend violence in Virginia on anti-racism activists as well as white nationalists.

They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists, Donald Trump’s loyal base is happy to absolve the president himself.

U.S. President Donald Trump is reaping what he sowed during the election campaign.

Last week, Charlottesville, Virginia was the scene of clashes between racist "white supremacist" groups and "anti-fascist" groups that took to the streets to protest against them.

Barack Obama’s tweet condemning racism in the wake of the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville during which one woman died has become the most liked tweet in history.
The poignant tweet, in which the former US President quoted Nelson Mandela, has been liked more than 2.9 million times on Twitter.

Jennifer Lawrence has joined a growing chorus of celebrities speaking out against the racist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, sharing an impassioned plea for fans to help publicly identify white supremacists who gathered from across state lines to participate in the deadly Unite the Right rallies, which joined various hate groups (including neo-Nazis) over the weekend.

President Donald Trump delivered a crushing rebuke to the leftist media for their one-sided coverage of the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.

For both failing to report the violence of leftist terrorists like Antifa, and for criticizing President Trump’s measured statement, the President absolutely laid the smackdown on the media.

An organiser of Saturday's white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been making headlines in Romania after he wore a shirt portraying a Romanian World War II fascist leader to a court hearing on Monday.