It doesn't matter if I'm on the DT list or not.
Right, yet you came in a rush in order to complain about it with a worthless blob of text. Honesty: None.
I have no reason to think that the Turkish board couldn't self-govern their local trust subsystem the same way.
Plenty of reasons and more to come. Zero doubt in my mind.
My point is that we can't possibly police it even if you're 100% right and if I 100% agree with you. Without speaking the language what can we do - exclude everyone who ever posted in a Turkish thread? Sounds unsustainable.
Let them do it and gloat if they fail.
I agree. However, excluding >95% of them (especially including the moderator) while educating the remainder seems sustainable to me (at least on DT1 level) which is what I will be doing.