Growing anger against Erdogan, Top police officials sacked after Ankara attacks

October 14, 2015 By administrator

The Turkish interior ministry on Wednesday fired Ankara’s top police chief and two other officials as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted security shortcomings may have led to a double suicide bombing in the capital that killed 97 people, AFP news agency reports.
There has been growing anger against Erdogan and the government for alleged security lapses over the worst attack in modern Turkey’s history Saturday where two suicide bombers blew themselves in a crowd of peace activists.

Announcing the first dismissals in the wake of the disaster, the interior ministry said the chief of Ankara police Kadri Kartal as well the head of the city’s police intelligence and security departments had been sacked.

It said they had been removed on the suggestion of investigators “to allow for a healthy investigation” into the atrocity.
In his first public remarks over the bombings, Erdogan admitted there were security shortcomings but said their magnitude would be made clear only later.

Istanbul: the anti-Chinese protesters sacked the Thai Consulate, 9 arrests

July 9, 2015 By administrator

Istanbul, July 9, 2015 (AFP) – More than 200 Turkish anti-Chinese protesters broke into and ransacked Wednesday evening strength Thailand consulate in Istanbul to denounce making state information of deportation to China of a group of Uighur Muslims reported the local press.

At the call of an association working for the rights of the Turkish-speaking community in China, protesters broke into the building in Zincirlikuyu district, on the European side of the metropolis, forcing then demolishing the entrance and windows with stones, said the news agency Dogan.

Chanting “Allah Akbar”, angry demonstrators ransacked the material of the diplomatic mission, he threw by building windows.

The police intervened and arrested nine protesters, according to Dogan.

Since the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan, several Turkish cities have been the scene of protests against Chinese policy towards this community.

The Islamic-conservative government in Ankara last week summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest restrictions imposed by Beijing eyes Uighurs during Ramadan. China has denied the allegations.

In November 2014, more than 300 Chinese Uighurs in possession of false passports were arrested in Thailand while fleeing their home country.

According to the Turkish authorities contacted by AFP, 173 people from this group have been accepted in Turkey but the others would still in Thailand.

Turkey PM’s Armenian senior advisor is sacked “No Surprise”

April 16, 2015 By administrator

Istanbul-Armenian journalist and writer Etyen Mahcupyan, who is Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey, has been dismissed from this duty.

As the reason for Mahcupyan’s sacking, they point to the incompatibility of his age with this post, reported Hurriyet daily of Turkey.

Furthermore, this daily has made a ridiculous claim that Mahcupyan was actually removed from this office back in March 9; that is, when he declared what had happened in 1915 was genocide.

After Pope Francis’ recent statement on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Etyen Mahcupyan had announced that it is impossible to describe what happened in Africa and in Bosnia as genocide without describing what had occurred to Armenians likewise as genocide. He had stated that the surprising thing is not that the Pope says “genocide” now, but why he did not utter this word for so many years.

Mahcupyan had also noted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent harsh statements against Armenians are linked to pulling the Turkish nationalists—which comprise 4 percent—towards him.