Society needs whistleblowers. They serve as a check on corruption and governmental overreach and in the private sector, they are often the only thing that stands between unbridled corporate greed and the otherwise clueless masses.
As Edward Snowden demonstrated, even the most ‘developed’ of nations need checks on government and that goes double in places like Turkey, where an autocracy is masquerading as a largely developed democracy.
Despite the fact that Erdogan has managed to create an environment in which the press and the police are afraid to pursue the truth for fear of brutal reprisals from Ankara, there’s one Turkish citizen who stands against the suppression of free speech: Fuat Avni.
Fuat Avni is a pseudonym used by an anonymous government whistleblower. He has more than 2.3 million followers on Twitter (so, half as many as Donald Trump).
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 12/05/2015.
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