Turkey arrests comedian for calling Erdogan ‘dictator’ and hurting Islam

Hindustan ^ | 7.6.2026

[Milagros]

Deniz Goktas was detained by authorities at the Istanbul airport for his comments in a YouTube video which has now garnered over 9.6 million views.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anadolou; denizgoktas; erdogan; islam1st; islamofascism; islamuberalles; istanbul; notourcircus; podcaster; spotify; tdstrollsonfr; trt; youtube

[Milagros]

Islamofascism.

[albie]

Turkey has comedians?

[Milagros]

I’m sure, dictator Erdogan’s media (anadolou,trt) defend him.

[Libloather]

Fresh prison entertainment?

[UnwashedPeasant]

The big turkey used his power as dictator to arrest someone for calling him dictator.

[dforest]

We are busy with Iran now. Turkey is Turkey’s problem. We are in no position to start ramping up reasons for war all over the place.

This is the baby step that builds a narrative.

[No name given]

Yep.

[No name given]

Who knew.

[No name given]

How thin skinned of him.

[escapefromboston]

All the bad stuff liberals say about Israel is actually true about the Turks.

[No name given]

That’s right.

[Mr. Mojo]

“For calling Erdogan dictator”

Thus proving Goktas correct

[No name given]

True.

[FoxInSocks]

The U.S. is going to start a war because a Turkish comedian was arrested in Constantinople?

[FLT-bird]

What kind of petty dictatorship does Erdogan think Turkey is - the UK or Germany?

[dfwgator]

Tough crowd.

[No name given]

Quite.

[Celtic Conservative]

They’re kinda making his point for him.

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[Milagros]

Impressive. Right?

[dforest]

No, if you want to foment something, you plant little seeds and over a period of time you it makes people develop an opinion and attitude to start supporting a position you are looking for.

Influencers are paid to do this very thing.