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Turkish MP gets 25 years in jail for exposing MIT arms aid to Syria militants
[217.218.67.231] A Turkish court has sentenced a prominent politician from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to 25 years in jail for his role in leaking secret documents to a newspaper showing the country's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) shipped weapons to foreign-backed Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz in Syria. On Wednesday, Istanbul’s 14th Heavy Penal Court handed down the sentence to CHP Deputy Chariman Enis Berberoglu for releasing secret documents with the purpose of political or military espionage. Berberoglu was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in the courthouse after the hearing. He will remain under arrest while waiting for the appeal process to conclude. CHP front man Engin Altay sharply condemned the decision, saying he saw the verdict as an attempt by President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's government to intimidate the opposition. "This decision is intimidation to the opposition. This decision is intimidation to all who are displeased with the Justice and Development Party (AKP)," Altay told news hounds outside the Caglayan Justice Palace in Istanbul. He said the decision was a sign that the judiciary in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was under the command of government executive organs. Back in May 2015, Cumhuriyet daily posted on its website footage showing Turkish security forces in early 2014 intercepting a convoy of trucks carrying arms for the bully boyz in Syria. The paper said the trucks were carrying some 1,000 mortar shells, hundreds of grenade launchers and more than 80,000 rounds of ammunition for light and heavy weapons.
Posted by: Fred 2017-06-15 |
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