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Ayatollah Erdogan makes Kim il Song and Kim Jong-un look restrained.
The Creep in 'Creeping Sharia' has used the failed coup to wipe out all opponents.
A 'Thought Police' sweep well past the military.
The 70,000 post-coup arrests are now at the heart of the Turkish government's propaganda war
From high-ranking military officials to University professors, those imprisoned since the attempted coup now total 70,756 - although some have been released
8 October 2016
The 70,000 post-coup arrests are now at the heart of the Turkish government's propaganda war | The Independent
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish parliamentarians as crackdown widens
By Erin Cunningham and Kareem Fahim - November 4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...176328-a221-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_story.html
The Creep in 'Creeping Sharia' has used the failed coup to wipe out all opponents.
A 'Thought Police' sweep well past the military.
The 70,000 post-coup arrests are now at the heart of the Turkish government's propaganda war
From high-ranking military officials to University professors, those imprisoned since the attempted coup now total 70,756 - although some have been released
8 October 2016
The 70,000 post-coup arrests are now at the heart of the Turkish government's propaganda war | The Independent
and today...The most striking figure shows how deeply the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has struck at the heart of the military, supposedly the guardian of the Turkish state since Mustafa Kamal Ataturk founded the nation after the First World War. The numbers show that an astounding 7,028 members of the Turkish armed forces have now been arrested. These include 164 generals and admirals, 287 colonels, 222 lieutenant colonels, 351 majors, 471 captains, and 1,091 lieutenants. And this, remember, is the largest army in Nato.
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These arrests include 2,385 judges, two of them members of the Turkish Supreme Court, 108 members of the High Court, 48 from high administrative courts, and five from the Higher Council of Judges and Public Prosecutors. At least 200 of the rest are more lowly judges and public prosecutors.
Among local dignitaries, 19 governors have been arrested, 76 deputy governors and 59 local municipal governors. The figures show that six mayors and two deputy mayors have been detained.
So have three heads of the Turkish Bar Association and 245 lawyers.
And if you think this is a big bite out of the echelons of Turkish society, take a look at what’s happened to the Police. Well over 7,000 have been picked up, including 629 city security directors, 47 assistant police directors – effectively police intelligence operatives – as well as 361 police chief officers, 649 superintendents, 1,110 assistant superintendents and 4,220 ordinary police officers. These figures may be considerably higher after 800 more but largely unspecified arrests in the past 48 hours. A government website has been sending detention figures to local journalists each morning, but it is almost impossible to keep pace with the overall figure.
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish parliamentarians as crackdown widens
By Erin Cunningham and Kareem Fahim - November 4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...176328-a221-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_story.html
ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities arrested and charged two leaders of a pro-Kurdish party in parliament Friday following overnight raids targeting a dozen lawmakers, signaling an escalation in the government’s clampdown on opponents and the country’s Kurdish minority.
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), were ordered arrested pending trial. Six other lawmakers were arrested on terrorism-related charges.
The party, which holds more than 10% of the seats in parliament, is the chamber’s third-largest bloc. And Demirtas, a 43-year-old rights lawyer, had emerged as a formidable opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish officials have accused the party’s leaders of ties to Kurdish militants — charges the party has repeatedly denied.
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The arrests drew condemnations from the United Nations and European Union, which said the moves “compromise parliamentary democracy in Turkey.” In a statement Friday, HDP deputies called the detentions “the end of democracy in Turkey” and said it was “a dark day” for the party and the country.
The arrests continued a broad crackdown by Erdogan’s government on political opponents in the aftermath of a failed coup in July..."
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