German Merkel billion $$ rescue pakage put Erdogan in power guaranty ISIL for another 4 Years

November 2, 2015 By administrator

Erdogan Wins Big – Great News for Merkel

Turkey prepared well for Merkel’s visit. In return of agreeing on a common EU–Turkey Joint Action Plan on migrants, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu requested four points: the opening of negotiation chapters with the EU, visa liberalization for Turks traveling to the EU, 3 billion euro to deal with the refugees, and the invitation of Turkish leaders to EU summits.

These four points are Turkish frustrations dating back to more than 10 years. In April 2004, the United Nations organized a referendum on the Kofi Annan plan to solve the Cyprus dispute, Turkey’s decades-long occupation and partition of the island. Turkey convinced the Turkish Cypriots to vote in favour. The Greek Cypriots, however, voted against the plan. Nevertheless, the Greek part of Cyprus became a member of the EU in May 2004. In the years to come, it would do everything to block the process of Turkish membership.

Turkey: the irresistible rise of the Kurdish Selahattin Demirtas, Erdogan nightmare

October 30, 2015 By administrator

In the Turkish legislative approach Sunday, all eyes are turning to the Kurdish Demirtas, leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and most serious rival of President Erdogan. Yet this charismatic candidate has difficulty campaigning.

Terrorist State of Turkey: Two children face two years in jail for tearing down Erdoğan poster

October 28, 2015 By administrator

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DİYARBAKIR

Two children aged 12 and 13 have been arrested on charges of “insulting the Turkish president” after allegedly tearing down posters showing a photo of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, news website Radikal has reported.

The two cousins, identified only by the initials R.Y. and R.T., now each face up to two years and four months in prison, upon approval of the case by the Justice Ministry.

R.Y. and R.T., two cousins, were detained on May. 1 for tearing down the posters outside the local highway directorate in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

In his testimony, R.Y. reportedly said the two were heading back home from the market and they wanted to remove the posters from the billboards in order to sell them to a junk dealer.

“We did not care about whose posters they were. We just wanted to remove them in order to sell them to a junk dealer,” R.Y. said.

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office applied to the Justice Ministry to file a lawsuit against the two children, as Article 299 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) states that filing a legal case on charges of “defaming the Turkish president” must be done upon approval from the Justice Ministry.

After approval from the ministry, the case was filed against the two cousins in the Diyarbakır 1st Children Court.

The prosecutor’s office also asked for implementation of Article 5 of the Child Protection Law, which means counselling the family of the children in question, assuring their school attendance, and assuring their health conditions.

The article also includes the settlement of children implicated in criminal activities in a children’s home after serving their time in a young offenders’ prison.

The first court hearing will be held on Dec. 8 this year, as the indictment prepared by the prosecutor’s office has been accepted by the Diyarbakır First Children’s Court.

The children’s lawyer, İsmail Korkmaz, said the charges of “insulting the Turkish president” were “unclear” and it was difficult for children to even know who the posters showed.

“It is devastating to see two children being tried for tearing down a poster of the president,” Korkmaz added, slamming Turkey’s “illiberal” justice system.

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Turkey’s Erdoğan to be ‘caliph’ under presidential system, pro-AKP columnist claims

October 25, 2015 By administrator

A pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) columnist has claimed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be the ‘caliph,’ or leader of Sunni Muslims in the world, under the much-anticipated presidential system.

Yeni Akit columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak said the rooms of the controversial presidential palace would be reserved for the representatives from nations under the caliphate, adding that Turkey’s caliphate had never been abolished.

“If Tayyip Erdoğan shifts to a presidential system, he will probably assign advisors from the regions under the caliphate and open representative agencies of all Islam Union nations in that 1,005-room [the presidential palace] in Beştepe,” said Dilipak speaking at a conference organized by AKP Toronto Election Coordination Center in Canada.

Dilipak also added that Erdoğan would assign advisers for all Muslim nations in the world.

Erdoğan has been known for his longtime aspiration for a presidential system in the country.

DW Report Erdogan: Ankara bombing ‘collective terrorist act’

October 22, 2015 By administrator

Turkey’s President Erdogan has pinned responsibility for the Ankara attack on a “terror collective”. According to him, this included the “Islamic State,” Turkish and Syrian Kurds and the Syrian intelligence service.

“This is a total collective terrorist act,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of a trade union on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

He referred to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS), Syria’s state-controlled military intelligence service and the Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) from Syria, claiming that they all “planned this operation together.”

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party and its affiliates are fighting in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, which in turn is occupying parts of Syria. Erdogan is known as one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s critics.

More than 100 people were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Ankara’s central train station on October 10. After first blaming the PKK, Turkish authorities then said the jihadist group IS was the “number one suspect” for the attack.

The worst terrorist attack in the history of the Turkish Republic came less than a month before the hotly-contested parliamentary election on November 1. It targeted a liberal peace rally in Ankara which had called for an end to hostilities between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels.

Investigations into the attack are ongoing. On Monday, the government claimed that one of the suicide bombers was Yunus Emre Alagoz. He was the brother of a man suspected of a similar attack in Suruc that killed 34 people in July. The second Ankara suicide bomber has yet to be formally identified.

The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) accused the state of failing to protect the peace rally in the Turkish capital, which was organized by leftists and Kurdish movements.

On Thursday, local media reported that a 15-year-old schoolboy was detained by police in Turkey for allegedly “insulting” the president. It is illegal under Turkish law to insult the president and those found guilty risk facing up to four years in jail. The media did not disclose details on the boy’s alleged insult.

das/msh (AFP, dpa)

Source: DW.com

Terrorist State of Turkey arrested teen for ‘insulting’ dictator Erdogan

October 22, 2015 By administrator

A Turkish teenager has been arrested by police forces for allegedly “insulting” the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports say.

The Cihan News Agency said on Thursday that the teenager identified as U. E. was detained outside an Internet Café on Wednesday night.

The 15-year-old is expected to be brought before court later in the day, which will determine whether he will be charged or fined.

Details regarding the accusations brought against him have not been released.

It is illegal to insult the country’s president under Turkish law, and those found guilty of doing so are at risk of facing up to four years in prison. The law has led to the arrest and prosecution of a number of journalists, activists, intellectuals, students and even celebrities.

Last month, a 16-year-old Turkish youth was handed a suspended 11-month jail sentence for calling Erdogan a thief during a student protest last December.

Earlier, Bülent Keneş, the editor-in-chief of the Turkish English-language newspaper Today’s Zaman, was handed down a suspended jail term of 21 months by a court in the capital, Ankara, for insulting Erdogan in a message posted on Twitter.

Tolga Tanış, a US-based journalist, was also detained in June over suspicions that he insulted Erdogan in a book he had authored.

Rights groups and free speech advocates have criticized the government for suing people over expressing their opinions, describing it as a means of aggressive muzzling of dissent in Turkey.

Erdogan, a former premier who ascended to presidency last year, has faced growing popular dissatisfaction over what critics say is his growing autocratic manner.

Turkey: Most Turks hold negative view of Erdogan: Poll

October 21, 2015 By administrator

A graph statistically depicting the views of respondents in a Pew poll on whether Erdogan is a suitable individual for leading the country

Only 39% of Turks have a favorable view of Turkish Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdogan and over half (51%) of the Turkish people hold a negative view of the president, the results of a recent poll show.

The results of the poll, which was conducted by Pew Research Center from April to May and released on October 15, show that Erdogan’s popularity is falling.

This comes as, last year, 51% of Turks had a positive view of Erdogan; and in 2013, he had the support of 62% of the people.

The findings of the survey indicate that Erdogan’s supporters were mainly Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) followers (87% favorable), Turks aged 50 and older (54%), lower-educated Turks (53%) and Muslim Turks who pray 5 times per day or more (71%).

This comes as a survey, conducted by pollster Gezici between October 3 and 4, indicated that the AKP is unlikely to win enough votes needed to form a single-party government in the country’s upcoming snap elections. The survey of 4,864 people, the results of which were released on October 15, showed that public support for the AKP, founded by Erdogan, currently stands at 40.8 percent.

The figure shows little change compared to the 40.9 support percent the party received in the elections on June 7, when it failed to form a government after 13 years of unrivaled ruling. Two months later, November 1 was set as the date for the snap votes in the wake of a failure in coalition talks between the AKP and main opposition factions.

Strong leader or strong democracy

The latest Pew poll also studied Turkish people’s preference between a strong leader or a strong democracy.

The results revealed that as much as 56 % of the participants in the study favored a democratic form of government and 36 % percent of them believed that Turkey should have a strong leader.

Iraqi, Syrian refugees

The poll also surveyed Turkish people’s view on the inflow of Iraqi and Syrian refugees into Turkey.

It was discovered that a vast majority of Turks (80 %) opposed the entry of refugees from the neighboring countries into Turkey and only 8 % of the participants in the poll favored the inflow of the refugees.

The violence caused by the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, which is backed by certain western and regional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, has forced millions of people in the two crisis-hit countries to leave their homeland.

France: FOG “Shame on us accomplices Erdogan”

October 18, 2015 By administrator

In his editorial in Le Point on October 15, Franz-Olivier Giesbert pulls no punches about the alleged sponsors of the attack that killed 102 people in Ankara on 10 October. But also against the West and Laurent Fabius.

He writes (excerpt): “We other Westerners are not only cowards, ridiculous and pathetic. Taken hostage by the Turkish government, we also reach the acme of abjection by actively supporting the genocidal policy of Erdogan, who intends to book the Kurds treatment than previous claims of Young Turks party made subject the Armenians 1915: the almost complete eradication. “

Today, October 18, the Dogan news agency says dozens of arrests took place in jihadist circles in Istanbul. It would have taken a carnage that the Turkish government is interested more closely to the wound presiding murders in this country? In France we say “stitched in white thread.”

Writer Orhan Pamuk Nobel prize for literature slams Erdogan for insecurity in Turkey

October 12, 2015 By administrator

This Febuary 2, 2015 photo shows Turkish Nobel laureate and author Orhan Pamuk posing during an interview in his house in Istanbul. (AFP photo)

A senior Turkish intellectual has blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the growing climate of insecurity in the country, saying Erdogan’s persistence in gaining a majority in the parliament has brought the country to the brink of sectarian conflict.

Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 winner of the Nobel prize for literature, said Monday that the failure by Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to retain a majority in legislative votes in June laid the groundwork for the resumption of hostilities between the government and Kurdish militants.

“The electoral defeat enraged Erdogan … he didn’t succeed in convincing the Kurds to give him their votes for his plan to create a presidential republic,” Pamuk told Italian daily La Repubblica.

Snap votes are planned for November 1 as the AKP failed to reach a consensus on forming a coalition government with major opposition parties. Turkey has also been engaged in airstrikes against the positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in north Iraq for the past months, dismantling a once-active political dialog with the group and prompting revenge attacks on civilians and security forces across the country. Around 100 people were killed two days ago in deadly bombings targeting a peace rally in the capital Ankara.

Pamuk said Erdogan’s decision to hold snap elections eventually set the scene for fresh attacks on Kurdish militants.

“That is why he decided to go to the polls again on November 1. But neither the government nor the army were satisfied with how things were going and they agreed to resume the war against the Kurdish movement,” said Pamuk, adding that everyone now is aware of what Erdogan has been planning over the past months.

“The entire country has understood his calculation … At first, he did not want to be part of the international coalition fighting Islamic State (Daesh). Then he agreed to do what the Americans asked him to, but at the same time he started bombing the Kurds,” he said.

The respected author, who also teaches at Colombia University, said he fears that Turkey may again slide into civil war like the 1970s.

“Anyone over 35 has terrible memories of that period and never wants to go back there,” he said, adding, “I am worried (for Turkey) because I know that in the end Erdogan wants to govern alone at all costs…He does not want to share power,” Pamuk said.

Turkey: Erdogan receive condolences while he is Massacring Kurd Inside Turkey & Iraq

October 12, 2015 By administrator

The Turkish air force has pounded Kurdish militants a day after a deadly bomb attack on a rally for peace in the capital Ankara, BBC reported.

Planes hit Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in both the south-east and over the border in northern Iraq.

Saturday’s twin bombing in Ankara killed at least 95 people, making it the deadliest such attack ever.Security sources say they suspect the so-called Islamic State (IS) group was behind the attack.The air force struck after the government rejected a new ceasefire announced by the PKK on Saturday.Tensions in Turkey were already high, with a general election looming on 1 November.
The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority in June after gains by the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which was involved in Saturday’s rally.

PKK positions were destroyed in the Metina and Zap areas of northern Iraq in Sunday’s air strikes, the Turkish military said.