Tag Archives: Gulen movement. corruption
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 court finds state conspiracy in journalist death
A Turkish appeals court ruled Wednesday that the killers of an ethnic Armenian journalist did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy. “We have strong evidence that state officials were involved in the conspiracy, and that evidence is even in the prosecutor’s report,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/world/europe/turkish-court-sees-conspiracy-in-the-journalist-hrant-dinks-death.html?ref=world The journalist was shot to death in broad […]
Dirty Babylon 