Another Turkish journalist end in Jail for insulting Erdogan

February 2, 2016 By administrator

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded that daily Cumhuriyet columnist Özgür Mumcu be sentenced to four years and eight months in jail for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Mumcu is being tried over an op-ed published on May 18, 2015 titled “Tyrant and a coward,” in which he blasted Erdoğan’s criticism of Hatice Cömert, the mother of Gezi protest victim Abdullah Cömert.

“It is well-known that tyrants are always fearful. They are so fearful that they would even file a complaint against someone like Abdullah Cömert’s mother,” the piece read.

During the first hearing of the case on Feb. 2 at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse, Mumcu denied that the article included any kind of insult.

“The piece is a critical text referring to [President Erdoğan] complaint against the mother of Abdullah Cömert after her statements following his death. This article was written following Erdoğan’s complaint, which had been widely reported in the media,” Mumcu said at the trial.

“As a columnist, I used my right to criticize. I’m a lawyer and professor myself. The testimonies and annexes that we have presented to court include samples of European Court of Human Rights [ECHR] rulings and also domestic laws. Therefore, I do not accept the accusations,” he added.

Hatice Özay, the lawyer of Erdoğan, defended the president’s case, saying Mumcu described him in the column as “a tyrant who oppresses his people, treating them without mercy.”

“We think this wording exceeds the limits of criticism. For these reasons, we demand a punishment for the defendant,” she said.

The court decided to postpone the proceedings, offering time to the lawyers of each side to present evidence and assertions.

In his defense, Mumcu also cited the case of Metin Lokumcu, who died of a heart attack in the Black Sea town of Hopa in 2011 during a police intervention against a protest.

He also referred to the case of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who died after 269 days in coma having been shot in the head by a police tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests. Mumcu described Erdoğan’s stated attitude on these incidents as “cold-hearted.”

Erdoğan was widely accused of encouraging his supporters to boo Elvan’s family at a public rally in 2014.

Erdogan Atrocity NEWS Around Turkey

January 20, 2016 By administrator

Turkish president vows ‘treasonous’ academics will pay the price

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stepped up his harsh rhetoric against academics who called for an end to military operations in Turkey’s southeast, warning that they would pay the price for “falling into a pit of treachery.”

Speaking at his regular meeting with neighborhood and village heads (muhtars) at his presidential palace on Jan. 20, Erdoğan said the signatories had given their “consent” to the killing of public servants by the PKK.

“I’m saying frankly: This mindset which gives a self-styled fatwa to the terror organization’s attacks on public servants, which simply says ‘it would be better if it didn’t do so’ in response to the killing of civilians, disgusts me,” Erdoğan said.

Woman sentenced to 11 months in jail for ‘insulting Erdoğan’

İZMİR – Doğan News Agency

A Turkish woman was sentenced to 11 months in prison on Jan. 20 for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by shouting and directing a hand gesture toward him in the Aegean province of İzmir in 2014.

An Izmir court sentenced economist Filiz Akıncı to 11 months and 20 days in jail for the offence, made while Erdoğan was departing from a rally in Gündoğdu Square on March 16, 2014, when he was still prime minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

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Erdogan vows No more talks with PKK,

Ankara will no longer engage in contact with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and will instead “liquidate” all PKK militants through ongoing security operations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed.

“We know that the only goal of the separatist terror organization is to fulfil the duty it has been tasked with by its master and completing the contract it has been given,” Erdoğan said on Jan. 20.

“So in the coming period, neither the separatist terror organization, nor the party under its control, nor other structures will ever be accepted as counterpart. That affair is over,” he added, addressing a large group of neighborhood and village heads (muhtars) at a regular meeting at his presidential palace in Ankara.

3 prominent journalists targeted in Erdoğan insult cases

Three prominent journalists — Oktay Ekşi, Ahmet Altan and Koray Çalışkan – are facing long prison sentences for insulting then-Prime Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Former Hürriyet daily columnist Ekşi testified to the court on Tuesday in a trial launched against him for allegedly insulting then-Prime Minister Erdoğan and state ministers in a column published in 2010.

Ekşi testified to the Bakırköy 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance in İstanbul, saying he never intended to insult with his words, “This mindset can even sell their mothers,” in his column about hydroelectric power plants. Ekşi said he used those words in order to increase the impact of his column, but not to insult anyone.

When Erdogan did Fuhrer, for René Dzagoyan

January 18, 2016 By administrator

arton121110-480x309 The December 31, 2015, returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia, to a question about the presidential system he dreams to establish in its favor, the President Erdogan reportedly said “” In a unitary system [like Turkey] a presidential system may well exist. We have examples in the world and also examples in history. You will see the example in Hitler’s Germany. “And the press is quick to accuse him of taking the Führer as a model, overwhelming him with absolute power suspicion, if not of Nazism. It is appropriate here to wash this firm supporter of the Ottoman Empire from malicious suspicion by analyzing its sincere and authentic thought in the light of proven and indisputable historical facts.

Indeed, a presidential regime has actually existed in Nazi Germany, January 30, 1933 to August 2, 1934, date of the death of President title, Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. It is through him, current President, Hitler was appointed chancellor, and only that, under the Constitution of Weimar. From January 33 to August 34, Hitler was therefore never president (because there already before) and Mr Erdogan, a recognized expert in the period from 1900 to the present, could not omit this fact known to all and s assimilate unduly Hitler. That is established.

But after 1934? we objected. After the death of Hindenburg, Hitler did he not been president? Nay! The day of the death of Hindenburg, Hitler made the Reichstag vote by deleting the office of President it replaces by “Führer und reichskanztler”, that is to say “guide and Reich Chancellor” title he held until his death. Hence it is easy to assert that Hitler never wore the title of President and that, therefore, the system he established after the death of Hindenburg was not a presidential system, but Simple autocracy. President Erdogan, he should emphasize again the infallible culture, could not of course ignore this “detail of history” and therefore could not refer to the period of autocratic Hitler after 1934 when he evoked the Nazi presidential system he wants to emulate.

What then thought our dear Reccep Tayyip speaking of presidential system under Hitler? It is now clear. He just thought of the period of a year and a half (January 1933-March 1934), the only one where a presidential system still existed, with Chancellor Hitler. Imagining president in a Nazi context, therefore saw the Hindenburg position, the only president title (with Davutoglu in the role of Chancellor Adolf?). But another point out, less than two months after its accession to the Chancellery, March 23, 1933, Hitler did vote full powers by the Reichstag and Hindenburg, the president, is reduced to a puppet state for year left to live. Other details as the expert in what historical truths Erdogan can have obliterated.

Thus, one can easily conclude that in wanting to be president of Turkey in a similar framework to that of Nazi presidential system, the Ankara Conducator has no dream to be another Hindenburg, that is, -dire a powerless puppet obeying the orders of an all-powerful Chancellor, for a very limited period of one short year. No big deal. Then he probably will retire or he will end up like the old marshal, simply. And that is the man, so humble, so modest, so eager to erase from politics, and knows all the details of modern history at the fingertips of wanting to inspire Hitler and wanting to establish in Turkey a Nazi! All these slanders, indeed, come from the Kurds. Because they keep repeating that after his triumphant election in eastern Anatolia, Erdogan made Führer. Gossips!

René Dzagoyan

Turkey: Erdoğan takes main opposition leader to court for compensation over ‘insult’

January 18, 2016 By administrator

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to court for his remarks describing him a “sham dictator,” and asked for compensation for non-pecuniary damages, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
In their petition filed to the Ankara Civil Court of First Instance on Jan. 18, Erdoğan’s lawyers quoted Kılıçdaroğlu’s speech delivered during a convention of his party on Jan. 16, and said their client’s “honor and reputation” was targeted by Kılıçdaroğlu’s “extraordinarily weighty insults.”
“There is no public interest in the speech subject to the case. The defendant did not taken public interest into account while criticizing our client; he has exceeded the boundaries of criticism and attacked the personality rights of our client, while it was possible to make criticism with expressions other than these unfair and unlawful expressions,” the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the lawyers as saying in their petition, demanding that Kılıçdaroğlu pay 100,000 Turkish Liras for non-pecuniary damages.
The complaint filed by Erdoğan’s lawyers followed a probe launched by prosecutors earlier on Jan. 18 into Kilichdaroglu for the same remarks.
In September 2015, a local court in Ankara ordered Kılıçdaroğlu to pay 20,000 liras in compensation to Erdoğan for insulting the head of state.
Erdogan took Kilichdaroglu to court over playing leaked tape recordings involving corruption claims that engulfed former government officials during his tenure as prime minister, before he was elected as president in August 2014.

Blame Game: Erdogan Hunts for Enemies Within and Without as Turkey Suffers

January 17, 2016 By administrator

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The Turkish government insists on blaming the misfortunes that befall the country on foreign and domestic enemies.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu claimed that the January 12 terrorist attack in Istanbul was masterminded by some ‘secret actors’ who used Daesh as a ‘subcontractor’, according to Daily Sabah.

The prime minister also accused the Syrian government of cooperating with Daesh militants, and argued that “certain foreign powers have an obstructing stance against Turkey’s airstrikes on Daesh targets,” the newspaper adds.

However, it becomes more and more apparent that the actions and policies of President Erdogan are largely to blame for the dire state of affairs in Turkey, according to the Austrian daily Die Presse.

Only a year ago the peace process with the Kurds was one of the cornerstones of the Turkish president’s agenda, the newspaper points out. However, as it became apparent that Erdogan’s party was losing the support of Turkish nationalists who were against any sort of peaceful negotiations with the Kurds, the president quickly shifted his stance and launched a violent crackdown against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). As a result of these actions, the southeastern regions of the country now became the battlefield for a full scale war, Die Presse remarks.

The newspaper also suggests that the recent victories won by Kurdish forces against Daesh in Syria also vexed Erdogan considerably, prompting him to provide support to Bashar Assad’s enemies regardless of how questionable their background may be. Yet despite these efforts the Syrian leader still remains in power, much to the Turkish president’s displeasure.

Furthermore, Erdogan’s actions drastically worsened Turkey’s relations with other influential Middle Eastern powers, such as Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Israel. In addition, the crisis sparked by downing a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft in Syria by Turkish fighter also threatens to undermine Turkey’s influence in the region, the newspaper adds.

‘Europe Turns a Blind Eye’ To Erdogan’s Praise of Nazi Germany

January 2, 2016 By administrator

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s praise of Adolf Hitler’s Germany, which he cited as an example of effective centralized government, was ignored by a Europe Union more concerned with negotiations surrounding refugees, French politicians said.

European politicians have preferred to “turn a blind eye” to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s praise of Adolf Hitler’s leadership of Germany, French legislator Thierry Mariani wrote on Twitter.

Erdogan told reporters on Friday, that Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was an “example” of an effective form of government. Erdogan’s office later issued a convoluted statement which attempted to explain that Erdogan meant to say the exact opposite. Erdogan cited Nazi Germany as an example of a system which had a unitary system of government and a strong executive, like the one he wants for himself.

Erdogan cite l'Allemagne d'Hitler en exemple! Mais l'Europe ferme les yeux préférant négocier avec lui… #Lâcheté https://t.co/b3mCVWmo1O

— Thierry MARIANI (@ThierryMARIANI) January 2, 2016

“Erdogan cites Hitler’s Germany as an example! But Europe turns a blind eye, preferring to negotiate with him…”

Another legislator member of the Nicolas Sarkozy-led Republicans party, Valerie Boyer, echoed Mariani’s concerns:

Erdogan faisant l'éloge d'Adolf Hitler, je demande au #Gouvernement de clarifier sa position sur la #Turquie pic.twitter.com/yDvN6MS2NW

— Valérie Boyer (@valerieboyer13) January 1, 2016

“Erdogan uses Nazi Germany as an example. Is Turkey’s entry into the EU still timely?”

A senator from France’s upper house of the legislature also questioned recent moves by the European commission to open a new chapter in Turkey’s EU membership process amid negotiations on refugee trafficking:

“Erdogan wants to strengthen his powers as President in Turkey, he cites Hitler in Nazi Germany! And Europe is negotiating membership?”

Turkey and the European Union opened a chapter on the country’s membership in the organization on December 14, amid negotiation on the migrant deal.

The One Day A Time magazine displayed the image of Erdogan in Hitler’s traits

January 2, 2016 By administrator

arton120534-367x480 “The destination Erdogan”. In reality it is a retouched picture diverted from its context that is currently circulating on social networks given the recent statements of Turkish President on the value of a presidential system like that of Hitler’s Germany. One of the real Times, below, date of November 2011.

Turkey True Colors: The Reason Why Erdogan Admires Hitler’s Government

January 2, 2016 By administrator

1032605780 Turkish President Erdogan seeks to expand his powers, which may deal a serious blow to democracy in the country.

Erdogan’s admiration of Nazi Germany’s form of government reveals the Turkish president’s true colors, according to John Tures, a political science professor at LaGrange College in the US state of Georgia.

“There are such examples in the world and there have been such examples in the past. When you look at Hitler’s Germany, you will see it,” Erdogan said during a press conference when asked whether the presidential system was able to maintain the unitary structure of the state.

The Turkish president had said earlier that the authorities may hold a referendum in order to amend the country’s constitution and switch to a presidential form of government.

“If it was a statement made by a democratic figure, it would be treated as a gaffe or bad joke in poor taste. But for the authoritarian Erdogan, it’s a rare instance of his honesty, showing how the strongman really feels,” Tures wrote for the Huffington Post.

He also dismissed the claims made by the Erdogan government that the president’s remarks were misconstrued.

“Of course, in Erdogan’s Hitleresque state, it would be a crime to suggest that Erdogan admired Hitler. Ironically, you could even be marched off to prison, for suggesting that Erdogan is authoritarian,” Tures quipped.

Despite the ruling AKP party’s victory in the November elections, Erdogan is still unable to muster enough votes to obtain the power he craves. Therefore, he seeks to obtain these powers via a referendum which would grant him and his family the ability to govern Turkey indefinitely “in a most undemocratic manner.”

“Should the United States break diplomatic relations with Erdogan’s regime, help Turkey’s civil society, review possible cuts to US military aid to Turkey’s government, or consider “smart sanctions” against Erdogan and his family? Erdogan’s admission of admiration for Hitler demonstrates that doing nothing will not help the problem, any more than it did in the 1930s,” Tures concludes.

Source: sputniknews.com

Erdoğan admiration to Hitler and Atatürk in the Nazi imagination.

January 1, 2016 By administrator

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as Today’s Zaman reported, “has said the implementation of a presidential system while remaining a unitary state is possible, showing Hitler’s Germany as an example.” He underlined that “when you look at Hitler’s Germany, you can see [that it is possible]. You can see examples in other countries as well.”

Gregory H. Stanton, the president of Genocide Watch, identified eight stages of the Holocaust. compare and contrast these to the Turkish context for similarities and dissimilarities.

1. Classification: “Distinguish people into ‘us and them’.”

2. Symbolization: “When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups.”

3. Dehumanization: “One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases.”

4. Organization: “Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility.”

5. Polarization: “Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda.”

6. Preparation: “Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. … Their property is expropriated.”

7. Extermination begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called ‘genocide’.”

8. Denial: “The perpetrators of genocide … deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes.”

Some of these have been already perpetrated by the AKP regime against Kurd. We can never know how far they intend to go. Yet, Erdoğan’s mention of Hitler should alarm democrats.

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TURKEY: Erdogan wishes for the New Year, to “cleanse” the country of the Kurd rebel (PKK)

December 31, 2015 By administrator

arton120479-480x360 Erdogan claims to have eliminated more than 3,000 PKK rebels in 2015,

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again promised Thursday in his wishes for the New Year, to “cleanse” the country of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in boasting of having “eliminated” more 3,000 in 2015.
“The Republic of Turkey has the opportunity and determination to defeat the separatist terrorist organization (PKK). Our security forces clean the mountains and cities of terrorists.