Turkish students call on consumers to ‘buy nothing’ following crackdown

With a buyer strike, the Turkish opposition party is trying to increase pressure on the government, which is reacting with new criminal proceedings.

As Buy Nothing groups expand across NYC, so does the drama

Sometimes giving away free stuff isn’t so simple.

Turkish students call on consumers to ‘buy nothing’ following crackdown

Boycott campaign aims to increase pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after arrest of opposition leader

Turkish opposition launches consumer boycott over jailed students

Protests have been ongoing since Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested last month

Can one with a good conscience on holiday in Turkey? Animal welfare organisations say no and call for boycott. Quite simply, the situation is not.

Perhaps the most frivolous, tragicomic example that will tell us where we have come to today in our efforts to establish a state of law and the supremacy of law for two hundred years is that the shopping boycott has also been investigated. Our Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, in his article published in T24 together with several European newspapers on March 27, wrote, “In limited democracy, the most beloved by the people and the most vo…