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They didn't join Pikachu's dance, they served 'DEM'-infused tea!

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The footage of a young person wearing a Pikachu cartoon character costume fleeing from police, which left its mark on the İmamoğlu protests, had gone viral. Everyone had something to say about these images, which found their way into the world press. While Pikachu became a symbol for those supporting the protests, those who supported the government's stance accused Pikachu of being an agent!

In a statement, the young person wearing the costume said, "I just wanted to make people smile a little and boost my friends' morale," but he couldn't convince anyone.

For example, actor Hasan Kaçan, whom you might remember from the "Zoning Amnesty" commercial and who received 187 thousand 500 liras from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) for an 8-day event during the AKP era, targeted Pikachu. Kaçan said, "All of these are specially worked-on agency jobs. It is an effort to make lawlessness and vandalism look cute to young people. From the gas-masked whirling dervish figure to the Pikachu character, from the one proposing marriage in front of the police to the one in the Spider-Man costume, it is a professional production. The characters are actors in a written script. There is nothing funny here. There is brutality, there is looting, there is vandalism. There is an agency's perception management work."

We don't know if this is an agency job, but we witnessed another kind of work.

The protests with drums, zurnas, and folk dances that we are accustomed to seeing in every social event were not in the squares this time. Since the DEM Party did not participate in Pikachu's show, we neither heard any ululations nor saw anyone dancing!

The DEM Party, which turned its direction toward the AKP amid talk of a new opening, a new amnesty, Apo's call to lay down arms, and him addressing the public from the squares, did not participate in the opposition's protests. In fact, for the first time this holiday, the DEM Party and the MHP visited each other. They didn't dance next to Pikachu, but 'DEM'-infused tea was served during the holiday visit.

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The Big Radish is in Trump's Saddlebag

While we were debating Pikachu, a new game is about to be staged right next to us... Moreover, there are no agency-made cartoon characters in this game. There is a Hollywood-made script, as you know. And it is a film adorned with messages featuring the American flag, which is waved at the end of every Hollywood movie!

US President Donald Trump, who has been trying to set the world's agenda with "Great America" rhetoric as soon as he took office, said that additional sanctions would be implemented depending on whether Iran reaches a nuclear deal or not.

Stating that he prefers Iran to agree to the deal, Trump announced that otherwise, it would not be good for Tehran. Trump signaled that he would create a crisis right next to us by saying, "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing. I wrote them a letter saying, 'I hope you negotiate, because if we have to intervene militarily, it will be a terrible thing.'"

We were wondering, "It's not a holiday, it's not a festival, why is Trump praising us?" In such a Hollywood scenario to be experienced with a neighbor, will he need the Incirlik Air Base, or if he is planning a military intervention as he says, is Turkey being considered as a buffer zone for a new wave of migrants coming from Iran? Is this why Europe is repeatedly emphasizing the importance of Turkey? We need to ask Hasan Kaçan: "Is an agency job constructed like that or like this?" You can read it better, make a comment!

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Those Who Are Not One of Us Should Be Eliminated!

The AKP's biggest argument was saying, "They marginalized us for years." They won the votes of citizens who do not live in the city and are more conservative by saying, "They called us 'jerrycan-headed,' they called us 'the man who scratches his belly.' They looked down on us." So, what happened now? They started doing the biggest marginalization themselves. Everyone who does not think like them became a hypocrite, godless, hell-bound, infidel, a puppet of foreign powers, a troublemaker, immoral...

They can apply so many labels without even thinking. Yet, they are the ones who know best what marginalization costs, but that is what power intoxication is like. The other evening, Volkan Konak, one of the important names of Turkish music and a master artist from the Black Sea, passed away after suffering a heart attack on stage. Those who did not like his opposition views immediately started insulting him.

Konak, who described his love for his homeland like a poem on stage by saying, "Cremate me, scatter my ashes into the Black Sea," was declared an "infidel." Çatalca Mufti Ahmet Mehmetalioğlu guaranteed that Volkan Konak would go to hell by saying, "He died on stage. He who drinks for us, will surely burn for us."

People who have never watched an art performance in their lives took these words seriously and lashed out at the Son of the North, even after his death. What insults... Yet, Volkan Konak has an interview on this subject. Explaining that he would be buried in the family cemetery and that these words were just a poetic show on stage... In other words, these words are no different from the song lyric, "Let them wash me in the rains of my village." They are sentences he formed to describe his admiration for the Black Sea.

But the mentality of "Those who are not one of us are the enemy" makes even the dead talk behind their backs...