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by nurettin 2184 days ago
This is the sixth or seventh incident within the past 10 years. Every time economy goes to the gutter, they make a speech about how "outside forces are trying to bring us down" or "the world is envious" or "we will shut down twitter". Two weeks later, everything goes back to normal. So far, wikipedia took the longest to recover because everyone was too scared to take action without asking the president and he was probably too busy with other things like blaming trump for the devaluation of turkish lira or inciting war in idlib. It's mostly unmaintainable posturing. He got a little ruffled up after his candidate lost the election for the mayorship of istanbul last summer and the competing party started spilling out their money laundering schemes. It's usually all bark and no bite.
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>"Every time economy goes to the gutter, they make a speech about how "outside forces are trying to bring us down"

Thank you for discovering universal rule. If you read US/Canadian press for example you might find out that for any bad thing happening inside some evil foreign entities are responsible. Any government needs an enemy to take people's eye from their own f..k ups.

For extra credit, start paying attention to how wedge issues work. "Let's you and him fight" is probably the second-oldest trick in the book.