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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan: Iron fist in velvet glove will crush terror |
| 2016-03-17 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has reiterated his call to broaden the definition of "terrorists" to include supporters of "terrorism" while also expressing his eagerness to strike the country’s enemies even harder. "If the state doesn’t strike its [iron] fist in a velvet glove on the heads of terrorists, they will continue hurting us each day. This issue has no relation to human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , freedom of thought, freedom of press and democracy. Those who use these concepts along with ‘terror’ and ‘terrorist’ should know that they have been making our nation’s conscience bleed," Erdogan said. In the aftermath of a March 13 suicide kaboom, which killed 37 people and maimed more than 120 people in the third major suicide kaboom to hit Ankara in the past five months, Erdogan said there was a need to form a "national coalition" against all threats aimed at ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Erdogan emphasized that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which focuses on the Kurdish issue, was not part of his concept of the nation. "I’m no longer seeing members of the party which acts as a side branch of the terrorist organization [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party - PKK] as legitimate political actors, no offense," he said March 16, in an apparent reference to the HDP which he and the government frequently accuse of siding with the PKK. "Here, I repeat once more, we should immediately redefine ‘terror’ and ‘terrorist.’ We should immediately amend the Penal Code according to this new definition. We should provide all kinds of legal and technical opportunities to our security forces, prosecutors and judges to enable them to effectively fight against terror and terrorists," he said. "We have seen how the so-called intellectuals approached the incidents even in this one, haven’t we? You’ve seen it. You have seen how some rags made some kind of reports. There are headlines like ‘Damn your presidential system.’ We don’t have such a problem," Erdogan said. Erdogan’s comments, in a speech addressing a group of village and neighborhood chiefs (muhtars) at the presidential palace, came after a bigwig from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) told Rooters earlier in the day that Turkey was working on widening the "terror crime" definition to include those who use the media to support or praise acts of violence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 What's with the velvet glove? Sounds kinky. But wouldn't it get all soiled and torn? "Unleash the bats from the belfry! Serve the pigs in the blankets!" |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-03-17 13:48 |