Erdogan: Truth as casualty

[ by Charles Cameron — truth can still be a casualty, even when not at war ]

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President Erdogan called the 1100+ academics who signed a petition "vile & despicable". Now, news of many arrested. https://t.co/dDcXuPZoPH

— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) January 15, 2016

That was January 15th.

It didn’t take too long for Erdogan to get around to projecting onto Biden precisely the sort of thing he was in fact doing himself.

Here’s January 23rd:

Turkey pro-gov't papers: FBI arrested 75 US profs as 9/11 truthers & Biden approved. Tweeted by officials, too. ? pic.twitter.com/EN8Bz1kFYT

— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) January 23, 2016

Psychology — psyche — be thou my muse!