Many Turks find it #genoeg with Erdogan

istanbul - Turkish president Erdogan, with a remark in a group meeting, caused a small storm on Twitter in Turkey. The head of state stated that he would step down if the people were able to find it enough with him at the helm one day. The hashtag #genoeg was then used by 1.5 million twitterers.

Erdogan's AK party then tried to suppress the commotion by stating that such 'manipulations' of social media are 'useless.' The participants were depicted as 'keyboard heroes. 'Of course there was also a movement from the camp Erdogan. He used the hashtag #verder.