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Turkey detains dozens more in ‘terror propaganda’ clampdown
[AnNahar] Forty-two people were detained in locations ranging from Izmir on the Aegean to Van in the east over their postings on social media. Twenty-four people were tossed into the calaboose in other cities on Monday. The detentions come as ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... pressed ahead with its military incursion in northern Syria against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia.  ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...called for national unity over the operation and warned those responding to calls for protests would pay a "heavy price". Twenty-three suspects were detained in the Aegean province of Izmir, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Six of the suspects had been planning a protest in a park, the agency said. The Izmir provincial chairman of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was reportedly also detained. Eleven people were taken into custody in the eastern cities of Van and Igdir while others were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in the southern city of Mersin and Mus in the east. The six detained in Van are accused of making propaganda and sharing information that is "not true" about the Syria operation, dubbed "Olive Branch". After the arrests on Monday, rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) hit out at Ankara's "intolerance of criticism", in a statement. Emma Sinclair-Webb, HRW's Turkey researcher, said prosecutors were misusing articles of the law to "silence" journalists, government critics and activists. "Turkey's silencing of voices who speak out against war is in violation of its own laws and obligations under international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... law," she said. Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... controversy rumbled over the vandalising by protesters of the offices of a newspaper in the "Intimidating journalists is unacceptable. The European Parliament will always defend media freedom, the cornerstone of democracy," wrote the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani on Twitter, as he condemned the attacks on the newspaper. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-24 |
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