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[bill cobbett]

Is this how a Candidate Country for EU membership treats its children?...

Appalling stories about the continued Turkish policy of throwing children in jail for dissent.

Mad Dog Erdogan is down on record as having said he will do ...

"whatever it takes" to crush Kurdish resistance, "men, women, children, no matter what they are I would do whatever it takes".

This is from the BBC some 18 months ago, which reported that 340 Kurdish children were in Turkish Jails for alleged antigovernment protests under the catch-all and lock them up without charges let alone trials...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10145351

To bring things up to date...

Seventeen children who were "taken in to custody" for "making propaganda for an illegal organisation" following a funeral in October 2011 and thrown in to Mersin jail have gone on hunger strike.

The mother of one of the kids had this to say...

"Emine Orhan, mother of jailed 16 years old Jiyan Orhan, said the kids are not in good condition. The kids, have been left in a cell, no judge have called them yet".

There are currently 130 children in Mersin Jail alone for their part in protests and a total of 2,221 children in Turkish Jails, mostly Kurds.

There's a petition for those with an interest to sign on this at... http://www.change.org/petitions/turkish ... keys-jails

[Bellapais Guy]

What about the human rights of the people of Palestine and their human rights, what about the people of Afghanistan and Iraq where the UK and the US have blatantly contravened their human rights. I dont think you want to go on about this as it doesnt go with your argument. Everybody goes on about violation of human rights in Turkey as it suits the south to keep banging on about this and I still keep hearing about the Armenian geenocide. What about the 1 million Persians that supposedly were killed by 300 greek soldiers this is usually glorified.

[Get Real!]

What about the 1 million Persians that supposedly were killed by 300 greek soldiers this is usually glorified.

Did you actually believe those figures?

[kurupetos]

What about the 1 million Persians that supposedly were killed by 300 greek soldiers this is usually glorified.

Did you actually believe those figures?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

[CBBB]

What about the human rights of the people of Palestine and their human rights, what about the people of Afghanistan and Iraq where the UK and the US have blatantly contravened their human rights. I dont think you want to go on about this as it doesnt go with your argument. Everybody goes on about violation of human rights in Turkey as it suits the south to keep banging on about this and I still keep hearing about the Armenian geenocide. What about the 1 million Persians that supposedly were killed by 300 greek soldiers this is usually glorified.

Complete idiot alert!!!!!!!!

The 1 million Persians were attacking the 300 Spartans, they weren't being systematically murdered by a numerically superior force as in the case of the Armenian Genocide and the current attempted genocide of the Kurds.

[supporttheunderdog]

What about the human rights of the people of Palestine and their human rights, what about the people of Afghanistan and Iraq where the UK and the US have blatantly contravened their human rights. I dont think you want to go on about this as it doesnt go with your argument. Everybody goes on about violation of human rights in Turkey as it suits the south to keep banging on about this and I still keep hearing about the Armenian geenocide. What about the 1 million Persians that supposedly were killed by 300 greek soldiers this is usually glorified.

That was Greeks not Cypriots and the Persians were invading - legitimate Self defence I think. !

[bill cobbett]

Well really!

The Filthy Carpetbuggerers or those CYs of Equally Low Morals benefiting from the Turkish Apartheid Regime condemn no one other than themselves by trying and failing so miserably to Defend the Indefensible. Bankrupt in argument as well as in morals, so used, as they are, to wallowing in the Sewer of the Turkish Occupation.

Anyway, here is what someone else feels about the matter...

"The mistreatment of youth is not something that's acceptable in any country. This is sick and depraved. The people who jailed them should be brought to justice and prosecuted to the fullest extent of whatever laws they have there. This is a gross miscarriage of justice no matter where you're from."

The petition site again... http://www.change.org/petitions/turkish ... keys-jails

[supporttheunderdog]

So what did these Chidren do? Call Gul a fool?

[bill cobbett]

So what did these Chidren do? Call Gul a fool?

Many don't know... they ain't been charged!!!

[humanist]

Have barbarians of the mediteranian released the children yet? Or have they ended their short lives as they tend to do?