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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish opposition party begins protest march from capital |
| 2017-06-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main opposition party sets off on a 425-kilometer (265 mile) march from the capital to an Istanbul prison to protest the conviction of one of its politicians. Thousands begin walking from Ankara, with police at the scene. The leader of the pro-secular Republican People’s Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, calls the "march for justice" after parliamentarian Enis Berberoglu was convicted and sentenced to 25 years for revealing state secrets. Kilicdaroglu calls the verdict "palace-motivated," a reference to President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... . "Let the whole world hear, we are facing a dictatorial regime in Turkey, in our own land," he says. The case of Berberoglu, a former journalist and politician, stems from a 2015 story by the Cumhuriyet newspaper suggesting Turkey’s intelligence service had smuggled weapons to Salafist tough guys in Syria. His lawyer has appealed the verdict. |
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