Comment by BeetleB
1 month ago
They make a quick mention of Turkey. Turkey probably perfected this technique - they've been abusing Interpol this way for years. Many people (e.g. Americans) who have openly criticized Turkey (blog post, Twitter, etc) have found themselves on the Interpol list and in trouble when traveling abroad.
https://www.justsecurity.org/87260/after-spotlight-on-red-no...
https://www.csce.gov/statements/authoritarian-abuse-interpol...
https://stockholmcf.org/turkey-among-top-abusers-of-interpol...
Turkey is hilarious. It is run by a conservative Islam dictator but their tourism advertising portrays alcohol and women in bikinis.
Turkey is quite tolerant - there are quite a lot of women in bikinis and alcohol in the tourist resorts in the south. The majority of the locals don't do that though.
It's more that Erdogan's Islam campaign has completely and utterly failed. Istanbul stays Istanbul.