Look at the Turkish black

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an keeps on using divisive and discriminatory rhetoric:
 
?They call themselves white Turks; those that differ are always seen as black Turks. We are from the black Turks. The white Turks reside in best places, work in the best jobs but they leave the shanty towns to the poor.?

As if he is not residing in the 1,150 room palace. As if he does not make use of discretionary funds, finding the money earmarked for the presidency not enough, and as if he is not the one who says, ?I got 52 percent; I can use the money any way I want.?

As if he is not the one traveling in private jets and luxury cars.

The moment he is in trouble, he resorts to the same trick: play the victim. The problem is that he is not aware that no one buys it anymore.

Following electoral defeat, Erdo?an puts the same play on screen and goes back to the initial scenario at the beginning: ?The ones being oppressed, the power of others; the fact that he is the candidate to break that chain of us and them.?

Archaic literature.

Being black in political literature is

-a symbol of being oppressed

-a key proof of discrimination

-a definition of being a second class citizen

-A group deprived of fundamental rights and freedoms

He declares half of the society as ?black,? second class citizens.

But he claimed to have changed the fate of the lives he said he will improve.

In order to please them, he includes himself among that crowd.

This is real discrimination. He fuels polarization and ?otherization,? which is his fundamental policy.

He has no other tool. This is a sign of exhaustion.

Turkey changed with June 7 elections. Yet he resists...

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