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| Turkey Amnesty Head Arrested over Alleged Gulen Links |
| 2017-06-08 |
| [AnNahar] The head of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Tuesday over suspected links to the movement of holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , whom Ankara blames for last year's failed coup, the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization said. Police arrested lawyer Taner Kilic along with 22 others in the western city of Izmir, all on suspicion of ties to the US-based Moslem holy man's movement, according to a statement on Amnesty's website. "We are calling on the Turkish authorities to immediately release Taner Kilic along with the other 22 lawyers, and drop all charges against them," "Taner Kilic has a long and distinguished record of defending exactly the kind of freedoms that the Turkish authorities are now intent on trampling," he said. The arrests proved how "arbitrary" Ankara's post-coup crackdown had become, Shetty added. The organization said it did not believe Kilic's arrest was connected to his work for |
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