...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...
against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
The militia said 17 of its fighters had died in
The PKK is proscribed as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies for waging a bloody insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1984.
President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...accused Fincanci of "speaking the language of terrorism" while the defence ministry called the allegation "slander".
The 63-year-old forensic medicine expert could be incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for up to 7.5 years if found guilty of promoting "terror propaganda."
Fincanci told the presiding judge in the second week of her trial that Erdogan's comments made an impartial hearing impossible.
"The president could call me a terrorist," she told the packed Istanbul courtroom.
"After this statement, how could public institutions and the judiciary make an independent ruling?"
The judge ended the hearing by sending the doctor back to prison and setting the next hearing for January 11.
- 'TURKEY'S BRAVEST VOICE' -
Fincanci is known in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
as both a forensics expert and a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
campaigner who openly speaks out against Erdogan's government.
Her initial detention sparked protests on the streets of Istanbul that resulted in dozens of arrests.
The
But its past forays into national political debates have seen several of its top members come under investigation.
The union said in a statement to news hounds outside the courtroom that all 11 of its executive committee members were now under formal investigation for potential "membership of a terrorist organization."
"If I am a terrorist, I wonder what organization I am a terrorist of," Fincanci told the court.
"They treat me as if I am the most dangerous suspect in the world in order to influence you," she told the presiding judge.
Fincanci's case has drawn an outpouring of support from international rights groups as well as some European officials.
German human rights commissioner Luise Amtsberg called Fincanci "one of Turkey's bravest voices."