Friday, February 5, 2016

Well, yes. “The West Must Stop Giving Turkey a Free Pass

The West Must Stop Giving Turkey a Free Pass

Last month, more than 1,200 Turkish and foreign academics signed a petition calling attention to the continuing humanitarian crisis in many Kurdish-majority towns in southeastern Turkey, which are the site of fighting between the Turkish Army and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K. The petition decried the Army’s shelling of urban areas and the imposition of weekslong, 24-hour curfews, which have left many civilians unable to bury their dead or even obtain food. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly denounced the signers as “so-called intellectuals” and “traitors.” Within days, antiterror police had detained and harassed dozens of the signatories…….

First They Came for Turkey’s Journalists, Then Their Academics
The university professors who protested the Turkish government’s repressive military activity in the country’s Kurdish southeast now face the same precarious and intimidating future as journalists who dare defy President Erdogan.
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Erdogan is on the brink of ultimate power, but Turkey is falling apart

independent.co.uk – Feb 4, 6:33 AM

Until 2002, when the AKP (Justice and Development Party) came to power, Turkey was doing pretty well in following Kemal Atatürk’s dictum: “peace at home, peace abroad”. Admittedly, there were three military coups between 1960 and

Polarization and Politicization of Turkish Public Opinion –

rethinkinstitute.org – Bezen Coskun – Feb 4, 10:30 AM

By the end of January 2016, the results of two public opinion surveys had been announced, one right after the other. The first was the annual survey on Social and Political Trends in Turkey conducted by Kadir Has University (KHAS); the other was

Broadcaster faces charges for ‘insulting president’

An indictment has been prepared against television channel Kanal D on the grounds that it insulted the president by showing a banner that appeared during a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) election during one of its morning programs

DİNK CASE: Dink Case: Main Trial Combined with Lawsuit Against Officials

Bianet :: English

Supreme Court of Appeal has integrated the action brought against the public officials with the main lawsuit regarding the murder of Hrant Dink. The trial will be held before 14th İstanbul High Criminal Court.

ASSOC. PROF. DR. ANDREI STAVILĂ: ‘Situation of Academia in Turkey Reminds Me of Ceauşescu’s Romania’

Bianet :: English

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrei Stavilă was an academic working at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. His contract was in effect between February 2015 and January 2016 and was about to be extended for another two years. But he had to resign on January 18.

Turkish president mobilizes civil society for new charter, presidential system

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has emphasized that he wishes to hold a referendum to make a new constitution and transition to a presidential system, calling on civil society organizations and media to launch a grassroots campaign to this aim

Shift to presidential system not personal: Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated that shifting to a new presidential system which would equip the Turkish Presidency with more powers was not a personal issue, while speaking to reporters in Istanbul

Investigation into 91 Academics from İstanbul, Yıldız Technical Universities

Bianet :: English

İstanbul University has reasoned the investigation as “signing a declaration which accuses the state of massacring whereas Yıldız Technical University accused the signatories of acting in a way degrading the state.

Cost of Saying ‘May Children don’t Get Killed’: 280,000 Euros

Bianet :: English

Radio and Television Supreme Council has interpreted words of a teacher who joined Beyaz Show on live via phone that “may children don’t get killed” as “using the same language as terror organization” and fined for 280,000 euros.

MPs on Hunger Strike: Don’t Hinder Ambulances

Bianet :: English

Three HDP MPs entering third day of the hunger strike by demanding wounded and bodies stuck in a basement in Cizre to be transferred have called for to not hinder ambulances to set off to carry out the transfer.

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Friday, February 5, 2016

Well, yes. “The West Must Stop Giving Turkey a Free Pass

The West Must Stop Giving Turkey a Free Pass

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