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Turkey detains leadership of top medical group over Syria criticism
[IsraelTimes] Erdogan lashes doctors' association as 'a gang of unthinking slaves' and 'servants of imperialism'

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 on Tuesday detained all the top members of the country’s main medical association, including its chief, after they criticized Ankara’s offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria.

The arrests came after the Ottoman Turkish Medical Association (TTB), which represents 80 percent of the country’s physicians, issued a statement saying that conflicts lead to "irreparable problems" and that "war is a man-made public health problem."

The TTB ended its statement on Wednesday with the words: "No to war, peace right now."

Prosecutors swiftly launched a probe, after President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... 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...
 on Friday lashed out at the "so-called Ottoman Turkish Medical Association" as "terrorist-lovers."

Erdogan again hit out at the group on Sunday, saying: "They are not intellectuals, they are a gang of unthinking slaves... They are the servants of imperialism."

Among those held was TTB director Rasit Tukel, state-run news agency
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 Anadolu said.

The health ministry on Monday said it had filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of the 11 executive council members because they were "acting against the law."

The Ottoman Turkish interior ministry on Monday said 311 people including journalists and activists were tossed into the calaboose over accusations they were spreading "terror propaganda."

’Threats of violence’
The TTB confirmed to AFP that all its top members were tossed into the calaboose, but an association official who did not wish to be named said that little information was immediately available as the arrests had taken place in different parts of the country.

The TTB, which has more than 83,000 members representing 80% of physicians in Turkey, is the nation’s leading medical association.

Ottoman Turkish medics have played a key role in treating war victims in Syria, often making dangerous cross-border trips into a nation ravaged by seven years of war.

Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International criticized the arrests, and said the TTB’s head office had received a "large number of threats of violence by email and telephone" leading up to the detentions.

Amnesty’s Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner said the TTB became a target for making a "completely legitimate reasonable" statement.

"This is completely irrational targeting of people for expressing their peaceful views, there is nothing that can justify these sorts of detentions," he told AFP.

Erdogan’s front man Ibrahim Kalin last week warned the Ottoman Turkish public and media to be wary of "lying, fake, distortive and provocative news, images and gossip."

But the TTB was not the only group to criticize the assault.

Over 170 former ministers, actors and writers signed a letter last week, calling for an end to the war.

The letter was sent to all of Turkey’s MPs including those from Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Erdogan called the signatories "traitors."
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