Kikapu wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:Kikapu wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:PS There exists a bilateral extradition treaty between Turkey and Morocco.
It’s only worth something if Turkey would want to extradite him. He would even ask for an asylum if Turkey were to make pretend they would want to extradite him back.
They allowed him to leave Turkey for a reason, which was not to embarrass Erdogan's fascistic government.
The story I am now hearing is that there was a computer breakdown which prevented the court order being entered into the relevant data base until 1800 hours on the day on which he left the country at 1630 hours.That Erdogan's fascistic government has no interest in extraditing him goes without saying, but every attempt must be made to pressurise them. You never know. There are actually four suspects in this case, all arrested for attacking the protestors in the same area with meat cleavers, and the others are still in the country.
Sounds all too convenient to me Tim, so excuse me if i don't buy that Bullcrap. It sounds more like,
"listen brother, you have until 6pm to leave Dodge City and never to come back", and not the usual "until sundown" routine, and so he took off at the next available flight to Morocco, thanks to Godfather Erdogan's goons, by giving him a safe passage.
I certainly take your point, and have no doubt that the leading lights in the AKP would love more nothing more than to spirit all four of these defendants out of the country. You still have to be careful about jumping to conclusions, and if this one defendant was assisted in absconding, this begs the question of why the other three were not also allowed to flee.
Turkey is still a place in which the rule of law, to an extent, holds sway - although this is being eroded day by day. The fact that the police had to arrest these people in the first place was a kind of victory. These goons did not really appreciate that people would be photographing and videoing them on their mobiles as they carried out the attack, which left so much evidence that made them clearly recognisable that the police were forced to act. It is also a positive thing that the prosecutor successfully challenged the original decision to release the four. Although the Islamists have infiltrated the judiciary to a considerable extent, not all prosecutors are on their side. The prosecutor on this case appears to be doing his job properly, although there always remains the possibility that he will be replaced by somebody more pliant to the regime's wishes. Based on all of this, I would not totally rule out the possibility that this man will be extradited from Morocco.
