GOVERNMENT FORMATION PROCESS: The elections are over and horse trading for government begins. As is tradition in Finland since, well, 2011, the person designated to form the government – in this case Petteri Orpo, the leader of the victorious National Coalition party,
Somewhat unrelated, but I am curious: Did Finland end up making any concessions to Erdogan? I'm not talking about kind words, but things like pushing out Turkish/Kurdish activists, prosecuting caricaturists and likewise.
Somewhat unrelated, but I am curious: Did Finland end up making any concessions to Erdogan? I'm not talking about kind words, but things like pushing out Turkish/Kurdish activists, prosecuting caricaturists and likewise.
It is generally believed that the process affected things like this event: https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/police-in-helsinki-attack-demonstration-in-solidarity-with-kurds-66256
> According to the police, the doll was "committing the crime of defamation against the Turkish dictator, Erdogan."
LOL, is that the wording they used? (Could be a more neutral word in the original Finnish, I guess...)
Now of course the source here is not one I'd rely on for evenhandedness. Have there been more situations like this?
I think this was a different case. https://www.anttiyrjonen.fi/words/journalists-rights-to-cover-protests-must-be-safeguarded
If all that come out of it are cases like this, then that's pretty good news.