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by **GreekIslandGirl** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:13 pm

The Turkish mess pervades all aspects of this sick country.

For women in Turkey who are victims of domestic or sexual violence, there are few doors to knock on. There are few women's shelters, and too often society tends to judge the victim, not the perpetrator. Every year women are killed or forced to commit suicide in the name of honour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... hts-turkey

by **wyoming cowboy** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:13 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:The Turkish mess pervades all aspects of this sick country.

For women in Turkey who are victims of domestic or sexual violence, there are few doors to knock on. There are few women's shelters, and too often society tends to judge the victim, not the perpetrator. Every year women are killed or forced to commit suicide in the name of honour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... hts-turkey

you can add this to your list GIG, on how women are treated in Turkey....Without an educated women's participation in a country's economy it can never hope to achieve any modern type of an economy.

"...The World Economic Forum’s 2011 Report put Turkey 122 out of 134 countries in women’s access to education, economic participation and political empowerment..."

by **GreekIslandGirl** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:58 am

The Daily Turkish Mess ....

The biggest media trial in Turkey's history has begun in what human rights groups say is an attempt by the government to intimidate the press and punish pro-Kurdish activists.

A total of 44 Kurdish journalists appeared in court in Istanbul on various terrorism charges, including accusations that they have supported the KCK, an illegal pan-Kurdish movement that includes the PKK, the armed Kurdistan Workers' party. Of those, 36 have been in pre-trial detention since December.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/se ... ges-turkey

More than 100 journalists are currently in jail in Turkey, more than in Iran or China. Many of them work for Kurdish media outlets. About 800 more face charges and many journalists have been fired or have quit their jobs because of direct or indirect pressure from the Turkish government.

Erdoğan now openly threatens journalists or dictates [what to write]. This attitude creates a terrible climate for press freedom."

by **GreekIslandGirl** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:37 pm

Turkey failing to admit it's dirty and not cleaning up its mess:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... h-question

Turkey has put 44 Kurdish journalists on trial this week in what Reporters without Borders called the "criminalisation of critical and activist journalism".

They are among about 100 Kurdish journalists who face lengthy jail terms on various terrorism charges, including accusations that they have supported the KCK – an illegal pan-Kurdish movement that includes the armed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).

While the crackdown on the press has escalated in recent years under the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has always had a chronic problem with tolerating a free press. From 1959 to 2011, out of 479 cases brought to the European court of human rights under freedom of expression, 207 originated from Turkey.

by **Get Real!** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:45 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:
They are among about 100 Kurdish journalists who face lengthy jail terms on various terrorism charges,

Pens can be deadly weapons!

by **Get Real!** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:53 pm

You know it seems that the only aim of any government is its prolongation in power!

And it doesn’t seem to matter if it’s a Christian, Muslim, or other country.

They all have the exact same goal… I’m the boss never mind you!

Perhaps Anarchism should be revisited…

by **supporttheunderdog** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:00 pm

Get Real! wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:
They are among about 100 Kurdish journalists who face lengthy jail terms on various terrorism charges,

Pens can be deadly weapons!

mightier than the sword???

by **GreekIslandGirl** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:42 pm

supporttheunderdog wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:
They are among about 100 Kurdish journalists who face lengthy jail terms on various terrorism charges,

Pens can be deadly weapons!

mightier than the sword???

Indeed. The written word, the records of history; all these are feared by Turkey and erased by force.

by **kimon07** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:02 am

YUSUF KANLI
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September/17/2012

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/just-a ... sCatID=425

Just another ‘ordinary’ day
Sunday was just like any other day in Turkey. The prime minister was somewhere else, advising some people about how they should behave in their bedrooms.

The foreign minister was at a closed-door forum in Istanbul, “tranquilizing” his deep instinct to lecture.

The interior minister, defense minister, the minister in charge of weeping, ( ) the special top commander and other commanders and the opposition leaders were at the funeral of some of the victims of the recent Afyon blast. Elsewhere, in 20 other Turkish towns, people were participating in the funerals of other victims.

It was unfortunately the turn of the eastern town of Bitlis to send a casualty report to Ankara: A police minibus was ambushed by terrorists; eight policemen lost their lives, scores were wounded… And, of course the military announced that operations were continuing in some parts of the southeastern border area with Syria or Iraq and the number of terrorists killed in the latest sweep had reached 127.
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In Istanbul, some 50 journalists were claimed to have been sacked from what used to be a staunchly pro-government newspaper, which has now come fully under the control of Fethullah Gülen’s Muslim brotherhood network. ….
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Sunday was just one of those ordinary days: grief, greed, grinning and ambiguity.

Turkey has developed an extraordinary knack for official funeral services. No other country could challenge this country’s championship in that area. If not every day, every other day there is an official funeral service at one of the country’s many mosques. Is that why the number of mosques has long exceeded the number of schools in this country?

The five-year-olds were recruited last Monday; today the remainder of Turkish children will be recruited to schools to be educated in how to become good Muslims…………………………