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Darij Grinberg's avatar

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.

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Tatu Ahponen's avatar

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

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Darij Grinberg's avatar

> 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?

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Darij Grinberg's avatar

If all that come out of it are cases like this, then that's pretty good news.

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