Correspondent in Istanbul
“
My dear brothers, my dear friends…”
Sitting behind a glass desk, Sedat Peker greets his new fan club with a smirk, and bombs his chest under an open shirt at the BHL. In each episode, the same merry-go-round: followed by hundreds of thousands of spectators, the leader of the Turkish underworld in exile takes care of appearances and feeds a suspense worthy of a Netflix series, before unwrapping his dirty laundry against the president's entourage Erdogan. Drug trafficking, political assassinations, rape, corruption at the highest level ... Everything is reviewed, without filter or restraint, on a YouTube channel created for the occasion, and whose unexpected success mirrors a population who increasingly doubts a power undermined by authoritarianism and patronage. "
Once again, the degeneration of the State and the concerns which ensue from it are on the order of the day
”, estimates the daily
Cumhuriyet
to explain the virality of its videos - one of them recorded
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