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Turkey fumes over Iran VP's 'genocide' remark

FM Davutoglu demands explanation after Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei says mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire constituted 'genocide.' Mottaki: Iran's position was in line with Turkey's stance on the issue

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 63,00.html

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My reporting on the Kurds landed me in a Turkish prison

I bumped into a local journalist friend on a recent afternoon in Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan. "This is Turkey," he said wearily when I asked if the police were still harassing him because of his work. "If the police didn't bother us [journalists], we'd think something was wrong."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 66157.html

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Mystery over Russian general found dead on Turkish beach

A mysterious accident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service had been murdered.

The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and was discovered by Turkish villagers in the province of Hatay, Turkish newspapers reported today. Reports suggest that he was quietly buried in Moscow over the weekend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/se ... uri-ivanov

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Mystery over Russian general found dead on Turkish beach

A mysterious accident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service had been murdered.

The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and was discovered by Turkish villagers in the province of Hatay, Turkish newspapers reported today. Reports suggest that he was quietly buried in Moscow over the weekend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/se ... uri-ivanov

Did you read the story?

It turns out he was in Syria not Turkey, and would most likely have had bodyguards, so presumably his dying while going for a swim official story is in correct - guess he was murdered by his own side.

And once again your sleuthing to prove the oxymoron of the thread title fails!

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WILL TURKEY EVADE JUSTICE FOR WAR CRIMES - AGAIN?

Revelations of horrendous crimes committed by Turkey against the Kurds are only the latest in a long catalog of Turkish regional violence that has gone unpunished.

From the massacre, some will say genocide, of more than one million Armenians to the murder of Greek Cypriots and the continuing occupation of northern Cyprus to the more recent violent provocation by attacking Israel's legal blockade of Gaza. The ships may have been manned by the Turkish IHH but the hand of Prime Minister Erdogan was clearly on the steering wheel of the Mavi Marmara.

Turkey has evaded justice for these crimes, but the terrible use of chemical weapons on Kurdish people, including two women, and then attempting to cover up this heinous crime by ripping the bodies to pieces, brought back memories of Saddam Hussein.

Photographic evidence of these war crimes is in the hands of the major news agencies who claim that they are so appalling they refuse to print them. German experts have confirmed the authenticity of these pictures and Kurdish witnesses can identify the victims.

It is inconceivable that Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan did not know of, if not order, these terrible crimes.

In the last year he has imposed his chosen officers to the hierarchy of the Turkish military. It is impossible that he would not have been informed of and approved the use of chemical warfare against the Kurds.

Erdogan has been quick to accuse Israel of all sorts of abuses. He insulted President Peres at Davos, accusing him of war crimes in Gaza. He insisted that Israel "must pay the price" over the recent flotilla incident.

Now it is Erdogan's turn to pay the price.

http://www.slunged.com/slungedblog.html ... ustice-for

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provocation by attacking Israel's legal blockade of Gaza.

Not according to the some:

Jun 5, 2010
Gaza blockade illegal, must be lifted-UN's Pillay
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE65404020100605

August 14, 2009
U.N. Human Rights Chief: Israel's Blockade of Gaza Strip Is Illegal
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539363,00.html

oh GR, please pick your sources better.

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Torture tools displayed ahead of Turkey referendum

Turkish exhibit displays coup-era torture instruments ahead of constitutional referendum

A wooden pole used to suspend suspects by their arms. A baton used to beat prisoners on the soles of their feet. Cables used to give electric shocks.

All are displayed at an exhibit ahead of a referendum on changes to the constitution that was crafted in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, which was marked by torture and other abuses.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/09/07/tort ... eferendum/

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Turkey fumes over Iran VP's 'genocide' remark

FM Davutoglu demands explanation after Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei says mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire constituted 'genocide.' Mottaki: Iran's position was in line with Turkey's stance on the issue

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 63,00.html

Have you ever read what you quote and post?

Hurriyet further reported that during their telephone conversation, Mottaki told Davutoglu that the conference attended by the Iranian vice president was about World War II, not about World War I, while repeating that there was no change in Tehran's position regarding the events of 1915.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 63,00.html

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Torture tools displayed ahead of Turkey referendum

Turkish exhibit displays coup-era torture instruments ahead of constitutional referendum

A wooden pole used to suspend suspects by their arms. A baton used to beat prisoners on the soles of their feet. Cables used to give electric shocks.

All are displayed at an exhibit ahead of a referendum on changes to the constitution that was crafted in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, which was marked by torture and other abuses.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/09/07/tort ... eferendum/

The coupist were not pro-islamist so what it has to do with Islamo-fascism?

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Have you ever read what you quote and post?

Absolutely, but don't come a fortnight later and ask me questions about it as I don’t plan to go over it again!