Erdogon has had a heart attack

[nolabear]

https://bnn.network/breaking-news/turkish-president-erdogan-hospitalized-after-suffering-heart-attack/

Twitter has lost its collective mind with conspiracy theories but it appears legit. Also Putin has rushed to the Kremlin, apparently connected?

If anyone knows more kick in. I have a friend in Turkey I’ll try to get info from.

[Matthew28]

1. Here's hoping

he is replaced by someone more moderate and more democratic in nature.

[brush]

35. Is he the fascist CPAC and Carlson have fallen in love with...

or is it Orban of Hungary?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. You are thinking of Orban of Hungary

But Erdogon is not a good friend of democracy. Friendly enough that elections might be somewhat competitive, but he accepts no criticism and plays power politics to suppress it.

[Kennah]

65. Tucker would still date Erdogon if he called

[Mopar151]

46. Off Brand Orban

Is what our friend Ferret calls Trump. Fuckums wants to compare testicle tans with O- bag.

Erdogan hates everybody, and double for Kurds. He pretty much has Putin begging for whatever shipping he will let pass. Any replacement may be less favorable.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Erdogon had been trailing in the soon-coming election. . . . nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

48. I agree

[roamer65]

2. ...

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Hopefully he’s deceased.

[Coventina]

3. Interesting.

I honestly don't know what to wish for.

This could be destabilizing in a bad way.

I despise the man but......

[TheProle]

8. Thank you

getting to the crux of the matter. You're absolutely right.

[Maru Kitteh]

58. +1

My first thought also. Just kind of . . "huh."

[lapfog_1]

4. Sweden joins NATO

Putin's failure and nightmare is complete.

That's if he is dead or sidelined and someone more reasonable takes over in Turkey.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I have very little understanding of the political situation in Turkey

but I’m relieved that poot’s collaboration with an ostensibly democratically elected would-be autocrat and ostensible NATO ally is delayed. Poot’s got enough on his plate already, such as losing his war for fun & profit against Ukraine.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Gee, that's a shame

Hopefully Putin, Clarence Thomas and tRump will follow suit.

[Rebl2]

9. 👍

[tosh]

14. Another 👍

[bdamomma]

57. I hope so

I have to agree with you BigmanPigman

[BigmanPigman]

69. That was just my top three...

The "tip" of my list of "Hopefully, next.....". It is a very long list.

[malaise]

7. It's real - a severe heart attack

Hospitalized

[TheProle]

10. Summoning family...

Link to tweet

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Yeah but ... that CGTN America tweet has been taken down

Google search on the text gives:
CGTN America on Twitter: "Turkish President Erdogan had …

Link to tweet

WebTurkish President Erdogan had suffered a myocardial infarction earlier today and is currently hospitalised in critical condition. His wife and family members have been requested to come to the hospital. 26 Apr 2023 18:47:02

and

Link to tweet

is "this page doesn't exist".

[Effete Snob]

27. He let out a hellacious fart - they stopped the interview - and he came back

There's video of before and after the incident.

Link to tweet

[Effete Snob]

26. Nope

Link to tweet

[elleng]

11. Turkey's Erdogan cancels election rallies for health reasons.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-cancels-election-rallies-day-health-reasons-2023-04-26/

[brooklynite]

12. I'll wait for a reliable news source

[Effete Snob]

25. Yup

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. Any M$M reporting this? Until then I think I'll wait to comment (nt)

[nolabear]

16. It seems to be slowly spreading. See above in thread.

Reuters has it. I’m not watching cable news right now so don’t know what’s going on. It’s certainly consequential.

[Effete Snob]

24. Nope - he paused a TV interview and came back

Link to tweet

[Amishman]

15. This is astonishing!

I never would have guessed he had one!

Fuck that asshole and free Kurdistan.

[vercetti2021]

17. Oh no!

Anyway fucking die asshole

[Celerity]

18. I so hope that fucker assumes room temperature, even if this news is false

[Bo Zarts]

19. Thoughts & Prayers

Know what I mean, Vern?

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. The official news agency is denying it

Türkiye rejects 'baseless claims' on President Erdogan's health

"We categorically reject such baseless claims regarding President @RTErdogan’s health. The President will attend tomorrow's nuclear power plant opening via videoconference," the country's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter.

"No amount of disinformation can dispute the fact that the Turkish people stand with their leader and @RTErdogan and his AK (Justice and Development) Party are set to win the May 14 elections," Altun added.

The directorate's center for combating disinformation also said the claims shared on some social media accounts that President Erdogan "had a heart attack and was hospitalized" did not reflect the truth.​​​​​​​

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkiye-rejects-baseless-claims-on-president-erdogans-health/2882301

[Bev54]

22. Isn't there an upcoming election there soon? I know there was talk that he could lose.

So he could be stressed about it, just hope he doesn't get a sympathy vote.

[Effete Snob]

23. Nope

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Just A Box Of Rain]

28. Please stop reporting conspiracy theories as if they are "news."

[Effete Snob]

30. +1

[Just A Box Of Rain]

36. What the fuck happened to critical thinking?

No respectable news organization has vetted this story and yet it is "reported" her on DU as if it is a "fact."

Good lord.

[Effete Snob]

39. There's gonna be a lot more of this

[Just A Box Of Rain]

45. I pity those who say that DU is their best source of "news."

DU should not be a platform for conspiracy theories, but that's precisely what it is.

[littlemissmartypants]

42. We're all entitled to make mistakes. Even you RainBox. ❤️

[Just A Box Of Rain]

44. None of us are "entitled" to post conspiracy theories that have not been vetted in any degree

as if they are "facts."

Not is NOT a mistake.

[littlemissmartypants]

49. ? I don't get it. I guess some of us are more tolerant and some more risk averse.

Optimists are seldom surprised by trouble. So I've heard.

I don't understand that ...

"Not is NOT a mistake."

[Just A Box Of Rain]

50. Tolerant of what? The spreading of lies, disinformation, and rumor-mongering that are presented

as "facts?"

Yes. I have no tolerance for spreading "fake news" and conspiracy theories as if they are the known truth.

That the way the Trumpists behave, We Democrats need to do a whole lot better than this.

Nothing confusing about that. And it only seems "controversial" here on DU. Not much of a recommend for this forum, sorry to say.

[littlemissmartypants]

51. I'm sorry you're having such a bad day, Rain. Maybe tomorrow will be better. ❤️

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. I can't wish him ill, but I look forward to reading the obituary. nt

[Mysterian]

31. Sorry, I hope he's Erdo-gone.

Not sorry.

[617Blue]

33. Post of the day nt

[Beautiful Disaster]

32. Hopefully he's dead.

[Takket]

34. If he dies, he won't be missed by me. Remember this!!!!!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassador%27s_Residence_in_Washington,_D.C.

Beating Americans on our soil, and of course drumpf let them get away with it..........

[blogslug]

37. Reuters says stomach bug

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-cancels-election-rallies-day-health-reasons-2023-04-26/

April 26, 20232:30 PM CDT

ANKARA, April 26 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan canceled his scheduled campaign rallies on Wednesday and Thursday for health reasons, weeks before May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections.

"Today, I will rest at home with the advice of my doctors," Erdogan wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday.

Later, AK Party deputy chair Erkan Kandemir said Erdogan would attend a ceremony at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in the southern Mersin province via videolink on Thursday.

"Our Mersin rally is also planned to be held on a future date," he posted on Twitter.

Late on Tuesday, Erdogan cut short a live TV interview during which he said he felt sick with an upset stomach...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Surprised he even had a heart

[bdamomma]

59. Exactly

Hearts and Dictators should not be in the same equation.

[Johnny2X2X]

41. He's a fascist

Jailed over 100,000 of his political opponents which were really just anyone not Right Wing enough. Jailed teachers and college professors who ever stood up for Democracy.

[johnp3907]

47. Shocking headline: "Erdoğan Has A Heart."

Oh, there’s more: “…Attack.”

[LOLarkey]

52. 0. Erdogon has had a heart attack

I saw Twitter is losing its mind but I have not found any credible sources confirming

[panader0]

54. Welcome to DU!

[Sky Jewels]

53. ...

[BidenRocks]

55. Timing is a strange thing

This happened on the anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Let me guess, he was on the ground floor.

[Pepsidog]

56. Ok entirely off topic but I have become a great fan of Turkish historical dramas. Most episodes are

over two hours and the production value is very high. I got addicted to them during the pandemic and have learned a tremendous amount about Turkish history staring with Ertugrul all the way through the Ottoman Empire. At first, Erdogan was not a fan of the shows but then realized that the shows portrayed Turks and Islam in a very positive manner. The shows are subtitled but easy to follow.

[Hortensis]

60. Apparently Russia and China are spreading disinfo about this also.

No idea what their psychops strategies would be, or the toxic narratives this would fit into, but I was browsing David Frum's Twitter feed and just happened on this:

David Frum Retweeted
Olga Lautman 🇺🇦
@OlgaNYC1211

SMH so Elon’s verified accounts are busy spreading what looks like Russian propaganda being echoed by China that Erdogan was poisoned. Good job @Twitter w the idiotic blue verification trolls spreading conspiracies. 2024 is going to be insane here of this platform still exists

[Just A Box Of Rain]

63. Shame that so much Russian propaganda get swallowed and spread with utter credulity

here on DU.

This rumor/conspiracy theory survives no attempt at fact-checking so far.

Yet DU is used as a "platform." We need to do much better than this.

[Hortensis]

66. At very least start w caution warning for "interesting" but unverified.

On googling this topic, it looks like Erdogan's practically a Ben & Jerry's of disinfo nexuses -- shop your favorite flavors.

I hadn't realized until I searched on Erdogan, but the earthquake in Turkey-Syria was made in Alaska -- caused by the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).

Oh, no! Forgot to post a warning first: FLASHING LIGHTS: *ERASE* *ERASE* *ERASE!*

Proceed with caution.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

68. Yeah, one might report that there are some unsubstantiated rumors flying around the Twitterverse

that are uncorroborated by any respected news agency, and that would be semi-okay.

But presenting it as a "fact" that Erdogan has had a heart attack isn't kosher.

The OP should really erase this thread.

[Hortensis]

70. Or correct, but agree. Only info still "health reasons," GI problems.

The NYT doesn't mention, WaPo reports stomach complaint and Erdogan's statement.

We'll see.

Voting begins today with Turkish citizens abroad, but in Turkey not until May 14. Polling shows slight lead for the opposition.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

71. I'd love nothing more than to see the Turkish people remove Erdogan from power.

He has been a disaster for democracy in that country.

Liberal democracy is under threat around the globe, and at home. Part of the problem, in my estimation, is the populist tendency to embrace a conspiracy theory mentality rather than embracing reason.

One can't have a liberal society w/o a commitment to reason and reality-based thinking.

Unfortunately anti-liberal reactionary tendencies are not found exclusively on the populist right.

Those who study how liberal democracy failed in Weimar Germany can see the same patterns.

The far-left in Germany (including Antifaschistische Aktion aka "Antifa&quot declared that the Social Democrats were "social fascists" and they made democrats, not the Nazis, their main enemies.

Will the liberal center hold in this country? I hope so, but this is a time of great peril.

[Hortensis]

73. +1000. After the 2016 election, Putin bragged/warned? that

he was working on growing the alliance of both RW and LW extremists against the Democrats guarding our democracy that advanced his goals so well then. The GOP's of course already become a RW extremist party.

He knows how to destroy democracies from personal experience, as well as from studying history.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

74. Putin has been less than a "strategic genius" in some areas, the war on Ukraine being his

biggest blunder. But he has been an absolute master of promoting anti-democratic/anti-Democratic forces who are hostile to liberal democracy on both the populist right and the populist far-left.

In that he's been highly successful, not only in the USA with the election of Donald J Trump, but the same scenario is playing out in liberal democracies around the globe.

Spreading disinformation, while actively undermining people's trust in the responsible free press, is all part of the master plan.

[Hortensis]

75. Yup. Providing critical assistance those doing the same in many nations. nt

[LostOne4Ever]

61. Don't you have to have a heart first? (nt)

[Aristus]

62. Asshole has a heart?

Who knew?

[Xolodno]

64. Not seeing anything concrete, so I doubt it.

And for all those saying they hope he dies....

He's the devil we know vs. the one we don't. I have to imagine there is someone ready to assume the position and I doubt it will be to anyone's liking.

[Kennah]

67. If Putin visits, stay away from windows

[FelineOverlord]

72. Update

Link to tweet

[Takket]

76. Turkey is a NATO member. For real.