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Details Of Paris Killings Of 3 Kurdish Women By Turkey’s MİT Exposed

January 5, 2018 By administrator

(Left to right) Leyla Söylemez, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan.

Pro-Kurdish Fırat news agency (ANF), which is affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has released alleged new details about Paris killings on Friday and claimed that the execution order had been given by four administrators of the Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

On January 9, 2013, the outlawed PKK’s founding member Sakine Cansız, Kurdistan Information Bureau (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez, who was a member of Kurdish youth movement, were assassinated in their Paris bureau. Suspect Ömer Güney died in prison on Dec. 17, 2016, just a few weeks before the trial.

The trial was planned to start on Jan. 23, 2017 in Paris High Criminal Court. However, the case was closed over Güney’s demise under suspicious circumstances. The probe into the murder of three Kurdish women in Paris has reopened later upon the appeal of lawyers.

“The massacre had reportedly come just a few days after an initiative to launch a new process of peace between Turkish government and the PKK. The process that was later dubbed the Imralı talks was just beginning. Before them, there had been the Oslo talks,” wrote the ANF.

“On January 3, 2013, a civilian committee had visited the Imralı island for the first time. Six days later, the bloody massacre in Paris occurred. The assassin was working for the MİT. He was a hitman, and was the only suspect under arrest. All signs he left behind were pointing to Ankara. The National Intelligence Agency, MİT, to be exact,” added it.

According to the report by ANF, “The MİT was there in the address he gave in code as he was planning his escape from prison. During the investigation, many other pieces of information were leaked. From a document that was leaked to the press on January 14, 2014, it could be understood that the execution order had been given by 4 administrators in the Turkish intelligence agency. Turkish intelligence claimed this document wasn’t genuine, but the document did have a wet-ink signature, and was included as evidence in the investigation file. Turkish officials refused to cooperate.”

“The document dated November 18, 2012 was signed by MİT officials Yüret, U.K. Ayık, S. Asal and H. Özcan. A document signed by MİT administrators showed that murder suspect Ömer Güney had been sent 6,000 Euros for ‘possible expenses’ and ordered to assassinate Sakine Cansız,” wrote ANF.

The document was saying: “In his last visit to our country to meet with us, the source was ordered to make preparations for people determined in the context of attacks/sabotages/assassinations against the organization targets in Europe and other such operative possibilities/capabilities, to acquire necessary equipment for his efforts, and to take maximum care in all communication with us, and has been paid 6.000 Euros for possible expenses.”

ANF’s report has continued to give details of assassination plan as follow:

“In a voice recording leaked to the press around the same time, Ömer Güney was speaking with unidentified MİT members to plan the murders. The date was January 12, 2014. The voice that was determined to belong to Ömer Güney was talking about assassination plans against Kurdish administrators. The two other voices in the recording were determined to be MİT members.

“The ‘final meeting’ that assassination plans were made according to documents and voice recordings was by early October, coinciding with Ömer Güney’s visit to Turkey. After Güney infiltrated Kurdish associations, he made many secret visits to İstanbul and Ankara. In the indictment, these visits were listed one by one with dates and times.

“The suspect had Sakine Cansız and many other Kurdish representatives in his crosshairs. The time when documents and voice recordings were leaked was also when Güney was planning his escape from prison. The murder suspect was planning to procure guns through his cohorts on the outside, and escape during his stay in the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.

“Years later, on December 17, 2016, the news of his death came from the same hospital. The case was expected to start that same month, but for some not fully explained reason, it got postponed to January 23.

“Later allegations were made that the massacre was planned during the Oslo and Imralı meetings, even that the members of the state committee in the talks were among the plotters. Kurdish journalist Amed Dicle’s book titled “2005-2015 Turkey-PKK Talks: ‘Resolution process operation’ against the Kurdish question’s resolution” pointed out that the order of execution was given during the Oslo meetings.

“The book also pointed out that the MİT members in the voice recording leaked on January 2014 were in the state committee that went to Oslo to meet with the PKK. The man mentioned in the book is code named Ozan, whose true identity hasn’t been confirmed, but is posed as a MİT administrator and was present in all meetings, from the first meeting in Geneva on July 5, 2008 to the last one in Oslo on July 5, 2011.

“According to Dicle, many people present in the Oslo meetings believe it was this MİT administrator code named Ozan in the voice recordings. The man in question was next to MİT Undersecretary Hakan Fidan in the Oslo meetings.

“New information that has surfaced months later confirm the previous. On the fifth anniversary of the massacre, On January 3, The outlawed Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella organization that encompasses the outlawed PKK, issued a statement on the massacre, which also coincided with the fifth anniversary of the first committee visiting Imralı in 2013.

“With the information the KCK shared regarding the two high ranking MİT officials captured in August 2017, they exposed the name of the man who planned the Paris massacre: Sabahattin Asal. According to the KCK statement, he participated in the Imrali meetings in the name of the state along with Muhammed Dervişoğlu.”

The ANF report has stated that Asal is a MİT administrator. One of the four signatures on the confidential document dated November 18, 2012 leaked in January 2014 belonged to  S. Asal. This name announced by the KCK matching the name on the document and the same man participating in the Imralı meetings show that the Turkish government’s role in the Paris killings.

Filed Under: Event Schedule Tagged With: Kurdish, MIT, Turkish, woman

LA FRANCE #Erdogan in Paris: A provocation and outrage (PCF) “murder of three Kurdish activists”

January 4, 2018 By administrator

The announcement of Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Paris on January 5, 2018, sounds like a provocation. It will take place the day before an event commemorating the murder of three Kurdish activists five years ago. French justice had however highlighted the involvement of the Turkish secret services in this crime.

The meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan constitutes a new outrage against the families of the victims and the Kurds who undergo a ruthless deadly war. The parliamentarians and mayors of the HDP have had their immunity lifted, been removed from office and now languish in jail after being convicted in unfair trials.

Erdogan’s Turkey is in a chaotic situation, in a permanent repressive flight.

The opposition is silenced while gigantic purges populate the prisons. Politics has become a field of revenge in which Islamist-fascist militias enjoy impunity to kill and lynch those still protesting.

In these circumstances, how can it be said that Turkey remains “an essential partner”? France’s duty is to stand alongside human rights defenders in Turkey.

The PCF condemns the visit of the dictator RT Erdogan and expresses his total solidarity with all the Democrats of Turkey. He calls to make the demonstration of January 6, 2018 in Paris a success for Truth and Justice to be returned to Leila, Sakine and Rojbin.

French Communist Party

Wednesday, January 3, 2018,
Stéphane © armenews.co

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Erdogan, Kurdish, Paris, woman

Kurdish Peshmerga ‘given deadline’ in Kirkuk

October 14, 2017 By administrator

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters say Iraq’s central government has ordered them to surrender key military positions in the disputed city of Kirkuk within hours.

They were given a deadline of 02:00 on Sunday (23:00 GMT on Saturday) to quit military facilities and oil fields.

Brief clashes also erupted between Kurdish forces and Shia militia backing the Iraqi government.

Tensions have been on the rise since Kurds held a referendum on independence last month, which Iraq called illegal.

The oil-rich province of Kirkuk is claimed by both the Kurds and Baghdad, though the two sides were recently united in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces took control of much of the province in 2014, when IS militants swept across northern Iraq and the army collapsed.

The Iraqi parliament asked Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to send troops to Kirkuk and other disputed areas after the official referendum results – which overwhelmingly backed independence – were proclaimed.

The referendum was held in three autonomous provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, but also in nearby Kurdish-held areas including Kirkuk.

The province, which bears the same name as the city, is thought to have a Kurdish majority, but Kirkuk has large Arab and Turkmen populations.

On Saturday, there was a brief outbreak of fighting near Kirkuk, with each side blaming the other, reports the BBC’s Orla Guerin in Iraq.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Deadline, kirkuk, Kurdish, peshmerga

Armen Navasardyan: Great powers oppose Kurdish referendum amid worries of spillover

September 19, 2017 By administrator

The Iraqi Kurdistan has received de facto independence since 1992, yet the status was never documented de jure, Ambassador Arman Navasardyan told reporters on Tuesday, commenting on the upcoming referendum declared by Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government and a bid to become a subject of international law.

Navasardyan reminded that great powers voice strong objections to the referendum planned on September 25.

“We know about the existence of four Kurdish enclaves – in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. All of those countries fear the ‘domino effect’ of the referendum that the vote can provoke spillover effect on regional countries and bolster separatist movements,” the diplomat said, adding the referendum conduct is still under threat amid the growing disturbances especially from Turkey and the accumulation of forces at the Iraqi border.

To remind, Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East but they have never obtained a permanent nation state. In Iraq, where they make up an estimated 15% to 20% of the population of 37 million. Three months ago, top officials and political parties in the Kurdistan Regional Government agreed to hold an advisory referendum on independence, strongly rejected by Iraqi government.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Kurdish, referendum, spillover

Lawmakers of Iraq’s Kurdistan region approve independence referendum

September 16, 2017 By administrator

Iraqi Kurdish legislators of the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have approved a plan to hold a referendum on independence from Baghdad later this month, a contentious move spearheaded by regional President Masoud Barzani  that has faced bitter opposition from the central government and several other countries, including neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria.

In open defiance of Baghdad’s strong disapproval of the referendum, 65 out of the 68 Kurdish lawmakers present in the regional parliament on Friday voted in favor of the September 25 polls as opposition legislators boycotted the parliament’s first session in two years.

The plan for the non-binding Kurdish referendum was approved in the Iraqi city of Erbil, the capital of a northern province with the same name, in the 111-seat parliament consisting of Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraq’s former president, Jalal Talabani, and the independent Goran and Jamaa Islamiya opposition parties.

On Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi slammed the planned vote as “unconstitutional,” calling on the Kurdish leadership to come to Baghdad and conclude a dialogue. The premier’s remarks came after the Iraqi House of Representatives voted to reject the poll on the Kurdish region’s independence.

The Iraqi parliamentarians urged the prime minister to take all necessary measures to maintain the unity of Iraq and start a serious dialogue with the Kurdistan region to resolve the pending issues.

Turkey has already censured efforts to establish an independent Kurdistan as “a grave mistake.” Ankara says the potential creation of an independent Kurdish state in its backyard would further embolden Turkey’s homegrown Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants toward an even stiffer confrontation with the government.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised interview that Ankara would hold a high-level security meeting on September 22 to decide on how to respond to the plebiscite, saying the Kurdish leadership was suffering from “serious political ineptitude.”

The Turkish president said Barzani’s decision not to postpone the independence referendum later this month is “very wrong.”

“Mr. Barzani is well aware of what we think about this matter. I think his statement is very very wrong, because he is well aware of our sensitivities about the territorial integrity of Iraq,” the Turkish president stated.

In June, Iran expressed its opposition to the “unilateral” scheme for independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan, underlining the importance of maintaining the integrity and stability of Iraq and insisting that the Kurdistan region was part of the majority Arab country.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Iraqi, Kurdish, legislators, referendum

Iraqi government rejects Kurdish move for independence

June 10, 2017 By administrator

Iraqi government rejects Kurdish move for independence

Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi said in April he respected the Kurdish right to vote on independence, but didn’t think the timing was right [Reuters]

Baghdad government says unilateral moves for independence unconstitutional two days after Kurds announce referendum.

The Iraqi government has said it would reject any unilateral move by Kurdish regional authorities to press for independence, according to a spokesman in the capital, Baghdad.

The statement on Friday comes two days after Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), announced that a referendum on Kurdish independence would be held on September 25.

“No party can, on its own, decide the fate of Iraq, in isolation from the other parties,” Saad al-Haddithi, Iraqi government spokesman, said in a statement.

“Iraq is constitutionally a democratic, federal country with full sovereignty … Any measure from any side in Iraq should be based on the constitution,” Haddithi said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said in April that he respected the Kurdish right to vote on independence, but he did not think the timing was right for the move.

READ MORE: Iraqi Kurdistan – Playing the independence game

The referendum on whether to secede from Iraq is planned to be held in the three governorates that make up the Kurdish region, and in the areas that are disputed by the Kurdish and Iraqi governments but are currently under Kurdish military control.

The disputed areas include swaths of northern territory that are claimed by both Kurdish Iraq and Baghdad, including the key oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

‘Terrible mistake’

Opposition in Baghdad to Kurdish Iraq becoming independent would become even greater if the region tried to take disputed territory along with it.

Turkey also came out against the referendum on Friday, calling the plan a “terrible mistake”.

“The maintenance of Iraq’s territorial integrity and political unit is one of the fundamental principles of Turkey’s Iraq policy,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

States that neighbour Iraq, including Turkey, as well as Syria and Iran, and which all have large and sometimes restive Kurdish populations, have in the past resisted moves towards Kurdish independence.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: independence, Iraqi government, Kurdish, Rejects

Why is Abdullah Ocalan Indisputable Kurdish Leader?

April 16, 2017 By administrator

abdullah ocalan

Abdullah Ocalan and Massoud Barzani. Photo: Ekurd.net/Farhad Ahmad

Hamma Mirwaisi | Exclusive to Ekurd.net

If the United Nations (UN) had authority to hold the free and clean election in Kurdistan today, the majority of Kurds would vote for Abdullah Ocalan to lead them. The referendum can be seen in the Newroz of 2017. PKK sacrifices paid off in Sinjar (Yazidi Kurdish region), Rojava (former North and west of Syria), North Kurdistan (former Turkey) and entire East Kurdistan (Iran) from Bandar Bushehr to Maku and Quchan.

Massoud Barzani of Barzani tribal leadership was embarking in the past to lead entire Kurdish people. He was able to control oil wealth of South [Iraq] Kurdistan with Talabani family. Barzani and Talabani were able to bribe few officials in Israel, the US, Europe, Turkey, and Iran to be accepted as leaders of Kurds and Kurdistan. But corruption brought him down and became the symbol of hatred by the majority of Kurds.

PKK, PYD, PJAK and PÇDK forces under the leadership of Abdullah Ocalan fought enemies of Kurds internally and externally successfully to prove for Kurds that they are the only organization who cares about the welfare of Kurdish people.

Massoud Barzani’s betrayal of Rojava (Syrian Kurds) and Yazidi Kurds showed the Kurd and the world that only PKK could protect Kurd and Kurdistan from enemies of Kurd.

The western countries never punished Massoud Barzani for his crime against Yazidi Kurds because he bribed key officials in those countries above. The US and the European Union (EU) punished Serbian leadership for less crime than the offense committed by Barzani administration.

Today we saw the report about General Flynn connection to the dictator of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. And now Flynn’s who is pursuing immunity means for willing to tell all about President Trump, Turkey, and Russia too. It is public that he received half million dollars to kidnap Fethullah Gülen for President Erdogan, familiar to the kidnapping of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The corrupt leaders took over the world in last fifty years, and suddenly every country is fighting corruptions now. PKK and Abdullah Ocalan are not corrupt. Barzani and Talabani’s family members are corrupt, and they are involved in paying many ex-officials in the US, Israel, EU, Turkey, Iran and other countries too.

Almost every Kurds will be happy to see Barzani and Talabani kind to be punished for the crime against humanity.

Is General Flynn case will lead to more investigation about the US current and ex-officials involvement in corruption? Is investigation will lead to Massoud Barzani, Qubad Talabani, Governor of Kirkuk and others involvement in corruption.

Stand by; it is the beginning of the investigation into corruption in the US.

References

Michael Rubin: Erdoğan has become a dangerous joke
NEWS DESK – AMED DİCLE
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 9:45 AM
https://anfenglish.com/features/michael-rubin-erdogan-has-become-a-dangerous-joke

The Kurds Fool the New York Times
MICHAEL RUBIN / DEC. 17, 2015
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/iraq/kurds-fool-new-york-times/

Flynn’s Pursuit Of Immunity Means He May Be Willing To Tell All About Trump And Russia
by Charles Tiefer , CONTRIBUTOR
MAR 30, 2017 @ 10:37 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2017/03/30/flynn-seeks-immunity-because-he-may-have-committed-crimes-for-turkey-and-will-tell-all-about-trump/#3da25f056793

Hamma Mirwaisi, a senior Kurdish writer and author of the book, “Return of the Medes” and the forthcoming book, “Enemies with the Same DNA“. Born in Iraqi, Kurdistan, he is a US citizen; he currently resides in the United States; is an electrical engineer by trade; he spent the early years of his life participating in the struggle for the freedom of Kurd from the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein. Mirwaisi was a regular contributing writer for Ekurd.net between 2010-2013.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Abdullah-Ocalan, Indisputable, Kurdish

Iraqi parliament bans hoisting of Kurdish flags in Kirkuk

April 1, 2017 By administrator

The Iraqi parliament has voted to ban the hoisting of Kurdish flags over government buildings in the northern city of Kirkuk.

The lawmakers on Saturday passed a bill to prohibit the hoisting of the flag of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Kirkuk days after the the Kirkuk Provincial Council decided to raise the regional flag next to the Iraqi national flag in front of some buildings.

The controversial move was swiftly met with ire in Baghdad as Kirkuk is not part of the semi-autonomous region.

Turkey, Iraq’s northern neighbor which has its own issues with Kurds and is in the midst of a crackdown on Kurdish militants, also condemned the flag hoisting.

A day after the council gave the go-ahead, Ankara that the decision would not help Iraq’s future stability, especially at a time when Baghdad was seeking unity in the fight against Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

Read more:

  • Turkish FM slams decision to fly Kurdish flag in Kirkuk

“We don’t approve of the voting held by the regional administration,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with the state-run TRT Haber television news network in Ankara on Wednesday.

On March 28, Arabs and Turkmens residing in Kirkuk protested against the move, describing it as unconstitutional.

Kurds and other officials rejected the claim, saying the Iraqi constitution had not explicitly banned the flag hoisting. They also argued that the move was normal and that Kurdistan flags had already been hoisted in Turkish cities of Istanbul and Ankara. They also justified the move as a response to demands by the majority of Kurds living in the city.

The Saturday bill also banned the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from seeking any direct benefit from the sale of oil in Kirkuk, noting that the income from Kirkuk’s oil belonged to all Iraqis and that it should be equally distributed among the KRG and other Iraqi provinces.

Kurdish officials have been at odds with Baghdad over the share of oil income from Kirkuk as part of the crude produced in the area passes through the pipelines operated by the Kurds.

Kurdish members of the Iraqi parliament left the session in protest to the ratification of the bill.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ban, flag, Iraq, kirkuk, Kurdish

Iraqi Kurdish women Self-immolations on the rise

March 16, 2017 By administrator

By Laurène Daycard

Female Kurdish fighters, who represent less than 1% of the roughly 200,000 peshmerga forces, have become “the bankable icon” of the fight against the Islamic State. But beyond the illusions of a land that supports women’s rights, the reality in Iraqi Kurdistan is much less glamorous.

According to nongovernmental organization Wadi, 57% of Iraqi Kurds between 14 and 19 years old underwent an excision of the clitoris. Honor killings by male family members are still common in Kurdistan, and many other women face forced and underage marriage, domestic violence or polygamy issues. Worse still, since the early 1990s, several thousand Iraqi Kurds died of self-immolation. In 2015, the Kurdistan Regional Government listed 125 deaths by self-immolation. In most cases, deaths are concealed behind the excuse of a random home accident, but Bahar Munzir, a popular activist for the rights of Kurdish women, told Al-Monitor that 500 such deaths occur each year.

Sarab, 19, is a survivor. When she was 11 years old, her father died and she had to respect her mother’s decision to marry a man who was 14 years older than her. In regard to the night that followed the wedding ceremony, she told Al-Monitor, “A girl should develop physically before uniting.” Two years later, she gave birth to her first daughter. Her mother-in-law dictated her life, but Sarab never complained. “For fear of divorce,” she said. Her husband became more and more violent, and desired another woman. Sarab thought about polygamy, which is illegal in Iraqi Kurdistan but still practiced. However, her husband preferred to divorce, remarry, and keep the child he had with Sarab. Barely 18 at the time but looking like she was 30, Sarab took refuge in her mother’s house. One evening, after she found out that her child had been treated badly, she took a lighter, covered herself in oil and set fire to herself.

In Iraqi Kurdistan, a violent husband faces up to three years in prison and a fine of about $4,000. In 2011, the Kurdish parliament approved the so-called Law 8 that prohibits many of the abuses women face, such as forced marriage, forced divorce, shigar marriage (in which men exchange their daughters or sisters in marriage without paying a dowry) and genital mutilation. “Law 8 is the best in all of the Middle East,” insisted Shokhan Hama Rashid Ahmad, a Kurdish consultant lawyer for the United Nations. For example, the law prohibits cutting a piece of the human body but does not deal specifically with excision.

Women represent less than 10% of the judges and are absent in the party offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of President Massoud Barzani, according to a study by NGO People’s Development Organization. Since the beginning of the war against IS, NGOs defending women’s rights face increasing difficulties as they are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of offenses.

“Humanitarian workers focus on refugees and internally displaced persons,” Diana Kako, the deputy director of Erbil-based NGO Al-Mesalla, told Al-Monitor.

Al-Mesalla currently supports Fatima, an Iraqi Kurdish woman who wears a niqab. Fatima talked to Al-Monitor about her situation and said that her husband, a taxi driver, asked her to wear the full-face veil until her skin is “fixed.” “I was a very beautiful woman. I wore the scarf because I wanted to,” she said. But in April 2015, her husband expressed doubts about her loyalty, suspecting that she flirted with another man by intercepting text messages. Fatima sank into depression and immolated herself — 37% of her body is burned.

Fatima, an oncology nurse, told her friends and acquaintances that it was a cooking accident. “They say that God wanted to punish me because I drove a car and wore golden jewelry. I was showing off in their opinion,” she said in a tired voice. What if she told the truth? Shala Abdullah, a social worker with Al-Mesalla, told Al-Monitor, “In our culture, if you say that you are burned, we think that it’s because you were not a respectful woman. We wonder what you did to want to kill yourself.” Fatima gets up, feverish, and gives a long handshake. She went $9,000 in debt for her plastic surgery operation. “At the time, I didn’t realize that I was either going to die or to suffer forever,” she said.

In Sulaimaniyah, eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, a public hospital treats victims of immolation at no cost. During Al-Monitor’s visit, cries of pain are heard when wounds are disinfected before being bandaged again. Patients suffer tremendously during the months that they spend healing. One patient who is in her 20s said she got married when she was 19 years old. To the question if she married out of love, she responded, “What do you think? That this is what happens in marriages?”

Sarab lies on an iron bed covered from her head to her thighs in bandages; her face has escaped the flames. Her brother, a peshmerga fighter, promised her, “I am going to issue a complaint against your ex-husband.” Revived by such a hope, Sarab said, “I want to raise my daughters alone.”

Laurène Daycard is a Paris-based reporter frequently covering women’s issues between Europe and the Middle East. On Twitter: @LaureneDaycard

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/immolations-iraq-kurdistan-women-violence.html#ixzz4bVsJ0POv

Source: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/immolations-iraq-kurdistan-women-violence.html#ixzz4bVs7KXmU

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Kurdish, self-immollatio, women

Terrorist State of Turkey has closed down 15 more media outlets and dismissed over 10,000 civil servants

October 30, 2016 By administrator

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Turkey shuts down Kurdish media, fires civil servants

Turkey has closed down 15 media outlets and dismissed over 10,000 civil servants as the Ankara government widens its crackdown on opposition following the abortive July 15 military coup.

The closures and dismissals were ordered in two new decrees issued under a state of emergency on Saturday, Turkish media reported on Saturday.

Academics, teachers and health workers were among those removed over their suspected links with US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed putsch. Gulen denies the accusation.

This is while almost all of the 15 media outlets, which were shut down, reported from Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast.

Additionally, the decrees ordered restrictions on lawyers’ ability to privately meet with their clients. They further stipulate restructuring the appointment of university rectors through abolishing elections and allowing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to directly appoint the rectors from the candidates nominated by the Council of Higher Education.

The coup began when a faction of the Turkish military declared it was in control of the country and the government of Erdogan was no more in charge.

Tanks, helicopters, and soldiers clashed with police and people on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. Over 240 people were killed on all sides in the attempted coup d’état.

The state of emergency was first imposed a few days after the putsch bid. It was extended for another 12 weeks earlier this month.

The government in Ankara has launched a suppression campaign on those believed to have played a role in the failed coup, in a move that has sparked criticisms from human rights groups.

It has shut down over 160 media outlets, formally arrested more than 37,000 people and sacked or suspended 100,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, police and others.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Kurdish, media, shuts down, Turkey

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