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The Grand Turk
Kurdish journalist in Turkey handed two year jail sentence for terror-related charges
2020-03-03
[Rudaw] A Kurdish journalist has been sentenced to over two years in prison by a Ottoman Turkish court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Monday for terror-related charges.

For several years, Aziz Oruc worked for Dicle News Agency (DIHA), a channel shut down for its affiliation to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by the Ottoman Turkish government in 2016.

A case was launched against him back in 2009 for alleged ties to the PKK, which the Ottoman Turkish state considers to be a terrorist organization. Ottoman Turkish authorities pressed terrorism charges against Oruc in 2017, forcing him to flee arrest with his wife and children to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where he continued to work in media.

Diyarbakir’s 9th heavy penal court handed him a two year and a month sentence on Monday for "propagandizing for a terrorist organization," in reference to the PKK, an gang that has fought the Ottoman Turkish state for greater Kurdish rights in the country for close to four decades.

Living in continued fear of Ottoman Turkish prosecution while living in the Kurdistan Region, Oruc attempted to reach Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
 to claim asylum. Unable to take the conventional asylum route to Europe through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, he crossed into Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and headed north to Armenia.

But without the necessary paperwork to enter Armenia, border authorities detained him and deported him back to Iran, from where he was forced to return to Turkey.

Abdullah Ekelek, head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in Dogubayazit, Agri province, traveled to the nearby Iranian border to meet Oruc and facilitate his escape to Europe.

Before Oruc could leave Dogubayazit, Ottoman Turkish forces swooped in to detain him and Ekelek on December 11. Oruc was formally arrested on December 18, and has since been held in detention at Patnos Prison in Agri.

Attending his Monday court hearing at via videophone, Oruc dismissed the accusations he faced as unfounded.

"I am a journalist. The posts shared are news content. 10 of my posts stated in the indictment are news, [they have] no propaganda content," he told the judge in his defense, reported independent Ottoman Turkish news outlet Bianet.

Turkey ranked 157 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index for 2019. According to the same index, the country is the world’s most prolific jailer of journalists.

Ottoman Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of journalists for their coverage of its operations against the PKK and cross-border military operations against Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria. Many other pro-opposition journalists have been arrested for their opposition to Ottoman Turkish domestic policy.

A Rudaw news hound and his cameraman, as well as two other journalists working for the pro-Kurdish Mesopotamian News Agency (Mezopotamya Ajansi), were detained by Ottoman Turkish authorities on Saturday while covering the migrant crisis unfolding near Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria.
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