Someone from the green party, if I remember right. We are getting famous for our quality pepper spray now. No advertisement could be better than this.
EDIT: I'm on a hurry now, but can you guys do a "christiane amanpour takvim" search in Google and laugh your asses off at ass-licking Turkish media's desperate attempts? They actually seem like they believe their own lies,
Yeah, it was Claudia Roth, leader of the Green Party (they have 2, the other one, Cem Özdemir, had visited Gezi Park earlier). She got a bit of criticism for putting herself in such a situation, but overall it made for a big story. Turkey is still a big story anyways, but a first-hand account of a politician who said "This was like war" gets attention.
It's incredibly idiotic that they thought they'd get away with that fake Amanpour interview in this day and age. Though their intended audience are probably rural or conseravtive people who are unlikely to check up on this on the internet.
Damn right. The ignorance runs deep in rural areas. They probably believed that fake interview. The backlash means nothing to Takvim (the newspaper that created this lie), they know they managed to catch the attention of people from rural areas and it's enough for them.
Turkey is a country where the poor is voting for an Islamist right party and the middle income people (I don't like saying "middle class") is voting for a Kemalist centre-left party. Rich people... well, it depends. If they something to gain from a government like this, they side with AKP, if not, then they side with a leftist party.
AKP resorts to vote-buying all the time, and the poor is happy with all the help they are getting so they keep voting for AKP. There is also the rumor of rigged elections. Some people from the communist party catched some people rummaging through a ballot box. Not sure if it's true or not.
Erdoğan's authoritarian ways were still easy to notice years earlier. I mean, do you guys have a Barrack Obama University there? We have an university named after Erdoğan, and some mosques and high schools named after him too. When a country starts naming schools, mosques and even universities after the PM, than it ought to hint you something about the regime.
My university has the picture of the guy just at the entrance, and I have to see that dictator every fucking time when I have lessons. I don't think my university is in love with him, but taking the pic town would attract unwanted attention. At least we don't have his statue.