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Turkish police state goes after journalists again
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday of cowing local news media into self-censorship after a journalists’ group said dozens of reporters had been fired for their coverage of antigovernment protests. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/world/europe/turkey-72-journalists-forced-out-for-covering-protests-union-says.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 The Turkish Journalists Union said at least 72 journalists had been fired or forced to take leave or had resigned in the past […]
Turkish police state arrests students as terrorists
Antiterrorism police units in Istanbul on Tuesday raided dozens of residences, including several college dormitories, in a crackdown on those who participated in widespread antigovernment demonstrations in June, detaining at least 30 people. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/world/europe/turkish-crackdown-on-demonstrators.html The police, citing terrorism laws, issued a temporary order withholding legal assistance to the detainees and denying them access to their […]
Turkey foreshadows US police state
The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the business owners who shelter them and the foreign news media flocking here to cover a growing political crisis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/world/europe/turkey.html?pagewanted=2&hpw In some of his toughest […]
Turkish police state turns on enviromentalists
Police staged a dawn raid on demonstrators who had been camping for days in Gezi Park in anger at plans to build a shopping mall, and clouds of tear gas rose around the area in Taksim Square that has long been a venue for political protest. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/05/31/world/europe/31reuters-turkey-protests.html?ref=world Amnesty International said it was concerned by what […]
Dirty Babylon 