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Turkey shuts 370 terror-linked NGOs
 Turkey’s Interior Ministry shut down 370 non-governmental organizations on Friday, Anadolu reported.According to a statement from the ministry, the organizations in 39 provinces were linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the PKK/KCK, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and Daesh. They were closed to protect security and public order, the authorities said. Friday’s step was taken under state-of-emergency legislation, the ministry added. The Interior Ministry said 153 organizations were associated with FETO while 190 were related to the PKK/KCK. Nineteen associations were connected to the DHKP-C and eight to Daesh. Turkey arrests head of opposition newspaper: Report [AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... detained on Friday the head of the board of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, which saw nine of its staff tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! last week, the newspaper said. Akin Atalay was taken into custody at Istanbul's airport after arriving from Germany, said Cumhuriyet, which has in recent years taken a strong line against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was targeted by a warrant that was part of a probe into "terrorist activities", and was ushered into a police vehicle that was waiting for him on the tarmac. Nine of the paper's staff, including its current editor-in-chief, were remanded in jug at the weekend pending trial after raids that have added to growing international alarm about media freedoms in Turkey. The exiled former editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, fled to Germany earlier this year while appealing against a near six-year jail term for revealing state secrets. Posted by: Steve White 2016-11-12 |
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