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Reporters Without Borders Mr. Erdogan, we hold you responsible for the security of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül

March 3, 2016 By administrator

arton122832-480x266Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held Wednesday morning in Istanbul Can Dündar the first press conference, managing editor of Cumhuriyet, since his release from Silivri prison Friday, February 26 after ninety-two days of detention.

Facing an audience of journalists gathered on Wednesday, March 2 at the Elite Wold Istanbul hotel in the Reporters Without Borders initiative, Can Dündar denounced the “climate of fear propagated by the Erdogan regime among journalists.” “But we’re journalists, not civil servants in state service. Our duty is to inform the public, including the illegal acts of the government. Upon first hearing of this case on 25 March, we will outline in full light the state’s crimes. We will not defend us, we will make the trial of state crimes. “He recalled on Wednesday to a packed house.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Erdogan, esponsible, hold, “Reporters without borders”

Erdoğan says he ‘does not respect, will not obey’ top court ruling on arrested journalists

February 28, 2016 By administrator

erd.thumbTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized the recent Constitutional Court ruling that paved the way for the release of two arrested journalists, saying he “does not accept or respect” the decision and vowing not to “obey” it, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. 

“This incident has nothing to do with freedom of expression, it is a case of spying,” Erdoğan said on Feb. 28 regarding the top court’s ruling on Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül.

Dündar and Gül were released early on Feb. 26 after 92 days in jail on terrorism charges, hours after the country’s top court’s ruled that their arrest had violated their rights.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Feb. 25 that their pre-trial detention had violated the fundamental rights of Dündar and Gül. Following the decision, Istanbul 14th Court of Serious Crimes ordered their release but subjected them to an overseas travel ban.

“The media cannot have limitless freedom … These stories have included all kinds of attacks against this country’s president,” Erdoğan also said.

Dündar and Gül stand accused of “espionage threatening state security” and “supporting an armed terrorist organization” over stories published in Cumhuriyet about National Intelligence Agency (MİT) trucks allegedly sending weapons to unknown groups in Syria.

The two men were arrested by an Istanbul court on Nov. 26 last year, triggering reactions from press organizations, NGOs and many Western countries.

The indictment, which was completed on Jan. 27, demands the penalty of life in prison, penal servitude for life.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Court, Erdogan, Journalist

Former Turkish int’l footballer Hakan Şükür faces jail for ‘insulting Erdoğan’

February 24, 2016 By administrator

skr.thumbAn Istanbul court has accepted an indictment by a prosecutor who demanded up to four years in jail for former MP and retired international footballer Hakan Şükür for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.  

Deputy Attorney General İdris Kurt in Istanbul’s Bakırköy district said in the indictment that Erdoğan’s lawyer Ahmet Özel and businessman Bekir Savram had lodged complaints about Twitter posts sent by Şükür.

Şükür, who is among the most successful strikers in Turkish football history, was elected as a member of parliament in 2011 from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ranks.

He resigned from the party in 2013 amid the row between Erdoğan and U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Şükür, who is known as a supporter of Gülen, ended his parliamentary term us an independent and did not run in either of Turkey’s two general elections last year.

In his defense, Şükür denied that the words in his tweets were directed at either the president or his son.

Following its acceptance of the indictment, the court is now waiting to set a date for the first hearing of the case.

Meanwhile, Anadolu Agency quoted sources from the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Feb. 24 as saying an inspection was ongoing for a column penned by world-renown Turkish climber Nasuh Mahruki, who was accused of insulting Erdoğan in a piece titled “Why Shouldn’t Erdoğan be the President?”

Mahruki was the first ever Turkish sportsman to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents, known as the Seven Summits. He is the founder of the Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), a very active NGO.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ANKARA: Full transcript of voice recording purportedly of Turkish PM Erdoğan and his son, Erdogan, insulting, Turkey

Terrorist State of Turkey a Man sues wife for insulting Erdoğan

February 23, 2016 By administrator

241285A man in İzmir has filed a petition for libel against his wife for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the private İhlas news agency said on Monday.

According to the report, Ali D., a truck driver, recorded his wife’s insults and the swear words she uttered every time she saw Erdoğan speaking on television, when he felt he could no longer support her insults against the president.

Ali’s wife, G.D., reportedly filed for a divorce, while Ali filed a libel suit against his wife for insulting the president. He will use the voice recording as evidence in the case.

Erdoğan, who was elected president in 2014, is a very controversial figure in Turkey as he has freely attacked the opposition while supporting the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which is in blatant violation of the Constitution.

The Constitution requires a president to be impartial, and Erdoğan was sworn in in Parliament to be impartial in office.

Erdoğan has himself launched many libel suits against journalists, intellectuals who dared to criticize him.

A large number of people, including high school students, activists and even a former Miss Turkey, have been prosecuted for allegedly insulting Erdoğan on social media ever since he was elected.

According to a human rights report released by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu in December of last year, more than 1,500 people have been sued by Erdoğan on libel charges and 400 more investigations are awaiting approval from the Justice Ministry.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Erdogan, insulting

Revelations How the CIA debunked Erdogan?

February 16, 2016 By administrator

arton122155-473x254The article below, translated from the Turkish by the MAFF, published February 28, 2014 in Time Turk, is a summary of an interview given by Sibel Edmonds Boling Frog Post January 18, 2014, under the title “The rapid transformation an imperial puppet “(see link at bottom of page).

Since then, the interview was reproduced and commented almost a hundred times in many languages ​​until December 2015.

Here is an outline

By Sibel EDMONDS

I have long lived in Turkey and closely followed the internal politics of that country. In reality, the purpose of my lawsuit, as a member of the FBI, was of leaking secret negotiations between Turkey and the United States. That got me to be persona non grata in the United States in Turkey. At the time, Erdogan was considered an angel by the US and then suddenly he became enemy because of its current policy. The CIA creates the world of puppet governments and overnight made them disappear. Erdogan he would suffer the same fate? The most blatant example is that of Saddam Hussein, initially there were congratulations between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam, then the occupation of the country and the removal of Saddam. The same process is it not also booked Erdogan? The story begins with the draft Fethullah Gülen.

In 1997, the CIA relied on Gülen who wanted to establish Canon Law of Islam (Şeriyat) in Turkey, however, it was the reason he was prosecuted in his country. The CIA offered to settle in America and, for 15 years, it lives in the United States. It controls a financial network of 20-25 billion. Nobody is aware of the source of these funds.

Gülen has built outside the United States schools, madrasas (Islamic schools) and other institutions in various countries. The governments of these countries considering them as a threat to their sovereignty and their institutions closed all schools of Gülen.

Gülen and the CIA have created networks in Turkey in police spheres, justice, army and media. It is through these measures that Erdogan shone and been in power. In fact, in 1997 on the intervention of the CIA, the AK Party was banned and Erdogan imprisoned. In 2002, the army backed down and allowed Erdogan to become prime minister. So what has he spent between 1997-2002? Gülen was already in the United States.

Erdogan had gained popularity and claimed he never would bend before the imam, the people loved him. “The imam or not it will not prevent me from achieving a sovereign manner all my projects,” he said. What was the reason for this personal confidence? Its very tough attitude toward Israel? In the US, Gülen enjoyed great support of the Jewish lobby.

This is the second phase battle between Erdogan and Gulen on support of the Jewish lobby. Erdogan’s attacks against Israel were not much appreciated by Gülen. The bell had rung of separation. Immediately after, it was the case of Syria that arises. Turkey and the AKP government supported the opponents of the Syrian regime, which they were arming via the United States. Until then, everything went according to the plans for the overthrow of Assad. An unexpected event occurred, it was the Russian intervention which forced the United States to review its foreign policy in this region.

In Turkey, on the one hand the people had good relations with Syria and Assad, on the other hand Syria is a neighboring Islamic country of Turkey.

With the withdrawal of the United States, Erdogan left alone and deprived of American support. The CIA and Gülen had resumed their activities in Turkey. Erdogan quickly understood that these maneuvers were around Gezi Park. We must not forget that the manifestation of Gezi Park was originated by popular action. The Western press began to treat Erdogan of “Dictator”. His relationship with Al Qaeda were revealed.

Expected by the CIA of Turkey? The CIA project was to keep the country under its control, control policy. Thus they were able to hold Erdogan to head the government.

The CIA plan was to use Turkey as a model to influence other Muslim states of Central Asia. Erdogan and Gulen were considered the promoters of the CIA action plan.

The CIA lost a puppet state (Erdogan) that was beyond his control.

Erdogan to demonstrate its non-submission to CIA requirements stated: “The arms purchases that represent billions of dollars I will not do them either with you or with the United States, I will make with China. “

It was a serious error of his vis-à-vis part of the United States and NATO. This attitude irritated the members of the American Armament Industries and NATO.

The integration of Turkey into the EU dragged on, Erdogan asked the integration into the Shanghai Union. This attitude was his last threat, and was considered a vis-à-vis insurrection of his bosses. This means the end of your existence.

Therefore, the United States had to demonstrate the severity of the punishments they could inflict on other states. It was submitted to Erdogan possibilities. The first obligation: You shall reverse, you will improve your relations with Israel, you will give up your desire to purchase weapons to China and your membership in the Shanghai Group.

The second obligation: You’re going to resign and go quietly, because we have prepared your replacement (Ç.N: CHP); stolen and hoarded money, you can take it with you, we will allow you to go in the UK.

The third requirement is two scenarios: First, you disappear like Gaddafi and Saddam, we’ll find you on Taksim Gezi Park to. Second, you can go like Mubarak, we will keep you in a prison in the UK where you will stay for the rest of your life.

So Erdogan in front of those choices. The same had been offered to Gaddafi, Saddam and Mubarak. The CIA works that way. In a few months we will see the end of this story, because this situation can not last longer.

Daughter of an Azerbaijani doctor, Sibel Edmonds was born in 1970 in Iran. After a few years she went to Turkey before settling in the United States to continue his studies. During his collaboration with the FBI, she discovered and denounced acts of espionage and of withholding information that could endanger national security of the United States. After warning his superiors, she was silenced by the FBI and in her stubbornness, dismissed in March 2002. The legal proceedings instituted ultimately leads to the use of the state secrets privilege by the Attorney General of the United States John Ashcroft; Congress was even prevented from proceedings and deliberations of the case. She graduated in March 2006 PEN / Newman’s Own First Amendment Award (price of an association of writers) for his contribution to the simple freedom of expression which every American citizen has from birth.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: CIA, Erdogan, Gulen, Turkey

Turkey’s Erdogan threatened to flood Europe with migrants: Greek website

February 8, 2016 By administrator

A migrant pushes a wheelbarrow in a muddy field at a camp of makeshift shelters for migrants and asylum-seekers from Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran and Syria, called the Grande Synthe jungle, near Calais, France, February 3, 2016.  REUTERS/Yves Herman

A migrant pushes a wheelbarrow in a muddy field at a camp of makeshift shelters for migrants and asylum-seekers from Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran and Syria, called the Grande Synthe jungle, near Calais, France, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened in November to flood Europe with migrants if European Union leaders did not offer him a better deal to help manage the Middle East refugee crisis, a Greek news website said on Monday.

Publishing what it said were minutes of a tense meeting last November, the euro2day.gr financial news website revealed deep mutual irritation and distrust in talks between Erdogan and the EU’s two top officials, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk.

The EU officials were trying to enlist Ankara’s help in stemming an influx of Syrian refugees and migrants into Europe. Over a million arrived last year, most crossing the narrow sea gap between Turkey and islands belonging to EU member Greece.

Tusk’s European Council and Juncker’s European Commission declined to confirm or deny the authenticity of the document, and Erdogan’s office in Ankara had no immediate comment.

The account of the meeting, in English, was produced in facsimile on the website. It does not state when or where the meeting took place, but it appears to have been on Nov. 16 in Antalya, Turkey, where the three met after a G20 summit there.

“We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses … So how will you deal with refugees if you don’t get a deal? Kill the refugees?” Erdogan was quoted in the text as telling the EU officials.

It also quoted him as demanding 6 billion euros over two years. When Juncker made clear only half that amount was on offer, he said Turkey didn’t need the EU’s money anyway.

The EU eventually agreed a 3 billion euro fund to improve conditions for refugees in Turkey, revive Ankara’s long-stalled accession talks and accelerate visa-free travel for Turks in exchange for Ankara curbing the numbers of migrants pouring into neighboring Greece.

In heated exchanges, Erdogan often interrupted Juncker and Tusk, the purported minutes show, accusing the EU of deceiving Turkey and Juncker personally of being disrespectful to him.

The Turkish leader was also quoted as telling Juncker, a former prime minister of tiny Luxembourg, to show more respect to the 80-million-strong Turkey. “Luxembourg is just like a little town in Turkey,” he was quoted as saying.

The tense dialogue highlighted the depth of mutual suspicion at a time when the EU is banking on Turkish help to alleviate its worst migration crisis since World War Two.

The EU says the flow of people from Turkey, which hosts more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees, has not decreased in any significant way since the bloc’s joint summit with Ankara in November, when they had agreed the fund for refugees there.

The report prompted a member of the European Parliament from the Greek centrist party To Potami to ask the European Commission to confirm the purported talks.

“If the relevant dialogues between the EU officials and the Turkish President are true, it seems that there are aspects of the deal between Ankara and the EU which were concealed on purpose,” Miltos Kyrkos said in the question he submitted to the Commission.

“We want immediately an answer on whether these revelations are true and where the Commission’s legitimacy to negotiate, using Turkey’s accession course as a trump card, is coming from,” Kyrkos said.

(Reporting by Michele Kambas in Athens, Orhan Coskun in Ankara and Gabriela Baczynska in Brussels; Editing by Paul Taylor and Tom Heneghan)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: emegrant, Erdogan, europe, Flood, threatened, Turkey's

Erdoğan Exiting Hitler’s Closet?

February 6, 2016 By administrator

Garen-Y.13-1BY GAREN YEGPARIAN

At first it was  just a reference to governance in Hitler’s Germany as a positive example of the centralized presidential power Erdoğan seeks to establish in Turkey. It was reported in the New York Times and elsewhere.

It was easy to disregard as just another one of his outrageous, outlandish, and outsized remarks, especially in the context of his ever more authoritarian style of rule.

His underlings claimed the media had misrepresented the comments Erdoğan made… sound familiar in this time of American presidential primary elections?

But then a few other pieces starting coming falling into place, please bear with me as the puzzle comes together.

Russia has asserted that Turkey is planning to invade Syria. Lending credence to this is the fact that Turkey denied Russia the right to a flight over its territory that is guaranteed by treaty, which suggests Turkey is trying to hide something. Turkey has built up transportation infrastructure starting at the Syrian border which suggests preparation for mobilization of men and munitions.

Aside from its early (and likely ongoing) support from IS/Daesh types, one of the stories Ankara likes to tell about “why” it’s involved in Syria is that Turkmens, ethnic brethren, living in Syria are in danger. Now, the claim has morphed into a more immediate “threat” because of Russian-supported Syrian forces gradually retaking control over areas populated by Turkmens, near Turkey’s border. This progress, when completed, coupled with Kurdish control over the eastern half of the Syria-Turkey frontier, would mean Ankara could no longer maintain the flow of Saudi supported Moslem radicals into Syria, nor could it continue to supply them.

This Turkmen argument carries significant weight in Turkey. Members of the MHP, the most extreme nationalist parliamentary party in Turkey. MHP has seen some of its members killed in fighting, in Syria, with funerals attended by Turkish notables. MHP has its militant youth organization. Other such youth groups exist. All of this reeks of Pan-Turkism. And, since these movements could pose a threat to Erdoğan and his AKP, many are convinced that a group called “Ottoman hearths” is a creation of the AKP.

The nomenclature is very worrisome. The notion of “hearth” – “ocağ” – which appears in the names of these youth groups harks back to the “Turk ocaği” set up by Zia Gökalp (one of the Pan-Turkist ideologues) a century ago that provided the ideological breeding ground for the murderous elements of the Committee for Union and Progress (Talaat’s party).

Couple all this with the well-known drive by Erdoğan to recreate the Ottoman order in some form, and the picture starts to get clear. It even starts to reek of “Hitler Youth” structures in pre-WWII Germany. Is it possible that this brand of youth control was developed by the Pan Turkists, borrowed by the Nazis, and is now being borrowed back by Turks?

All this fits in with Erdoğan’s whipping up of chauvinist fervor against the Kurds, too.

Given his established penchant for political brinkmanship and willingness to use any means to maintain, expand, and deepen his power, it could be that Erdoğan is simply using any and all political tools, cynically, to achieve his ends. But, when Pan-Turkism, or any other such racist ideology is reengaged and reenergized, no one is safe. Armenians (and ever increasingly Kurds) know this.

It’s incumbent on us to start getting the word out on this to media and legislative circles. We have to convey the gravity of the situation and that it is not just Erdoğan playing with Islamic or nationalist fire, as usual. This can potentially spiral out of control in the deadliest ways, and destabilize not only Turkey, nor even just its immediate neighbors, but countries and regions all the way to China.

Get on the phone and computer and get to work getting the word out.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: closet, Erdogan, hitler

Video – ‘Murderer!’ Asesino Female protesters interrupt Erdogan’s speech in Ecuador

February 5, 2016 By administrator

Erdogan AsesinoEcuador has summoned the Turkish ambassador in Quito to formally protest the treatment of three of its citizens who were forcibly removed after demonstrating against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was speaking at an event. The three women were removed from Quito’s Centre for Higher National Studies on Thursday by Erdogan’s security personnel when they interrupted his speech. Local media were also prevented from filming the altercation

 

 

 

From #Ecuador to #Syria #Iraq everone aware #Erdogan is Murderer Asesino, all His audience are his body guards. pic.twitter.com/stttxoKG7e

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) February 6, 2016

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ecuador, Erdogan, Protest, speech

“Erdogan’s guard broke the nose of Ecuadorean lawmaker Diego Vintimilla.” chanting Turkey=ISIS

February 4, 2016 By administrator

Protesters chant pro-Kurdish slogans as they protest Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Quito, Ecuador on Feb. 4, 2016. | Photo: Giran Ozcan

Protesters chant pro-Kurdish slogans as they protest Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Quito, Ecuador on Feb. 4, 2016. | Photo: Giran Ozcan

The incident occurred during a Kurdish solidarity protest against Turkey’s president as he visited Ecuador.

Supporters of the Kurdish struggle took to the streets Thursday in Ecuador’s capital Quito to protest Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is in Ecuador on an official two-day visit.

The protesters gathered in opposition to Ankara’s military operation in the Kurdish southeast areas of Turkey against the militant PKK group. Hundreds of civilians have been killed since August.

Protesters were heard chanting slogans such as ”Long live Kurdistan,” “Murderer Erdogan” and “Out with Erdogan” as the Turkish leader entered the IAEN University in Quito.

Giran Ozcan, the Latin American representative of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), was at the protest and told teleSUR that Ecuadorean lawmaker Diego Vintimilla, who was with the protesters, was injured in a confrontation with one of Erdogan’s security guards.

“Erdogan’s guard broke the nose of Ecuadorean lawmaker Diego Vintimilla.”

“People of Ecuador realise that a murderer is visiting their country today,” Ozcan said as he joined the protest against Erdogan. “Through President Erdogan’s support for ISIS (Islamic State group) he is responsible for the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria.”

Ozcan added that Erdogan is responsible for the killing of hundreds of civilians in Kurdish towns such as Cizre and Sur as part of his push for consolidating power in Turkey.

According to the Turkish Human Rights Commision, at least 167 civilians have been killed in Turkey’s majority-Kurdish southeast since August last year.

Erdogan met with Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa in the capital in order to finalize economic deals between the two nations, which Erdogan described as “strategic” and the beginning of a golden era between Turkey and Ecuador.

Despite being far from Turkey, Ozcan said the protest was an important action where “the people of Ecuador are showing solidarity with the Kurdish people and people of the Middle East against aspiring dictators such as Erdogan and evil organisations that he supports such as ISIS!”

Turkey and Ecuador currently have trade agreements that amount to almost US$200 million. Erdogan said the two countries aim to increase trade to “US$500 or even to US$1 billion,” without specifying deadlines.

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:

“http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Erdogan-Guard-Attacks-Pro-Kurdish-Lawmaker-in-Ecuador-20160204-0050.html”. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ecuador, Erdogan, guard

Chilean activists: Massive protest against Turkish dictator Erdoğan’s arrival in Santiago

February 2, 2016 By administrator

Protest against Erdogan in chileChilean activists protested the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in front of the presidential palace in Santiago on Monday.

The protesters slammed the president, accusing him of being one with the radical terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Protestors held signs that read “Erdoğan is ISIS [ISIL]” and “ISIS is the army of Erdoğan.”

The group also expressed solidarity with the Kurdish population in Turkey‘s Southeast by holding a sign that read “The Kurdish people are not alone.”

Some protesters were taken into custody during the demonstration.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: chile, Erdogan, ISIS, Protest, Turkey

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