{"id":16674,"date":"2016-01-19T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:14:02","slug":"u-s-ally-turkey-arrests-academics-for-the-crime-of-signing-a-peace-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16674","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A senior\u00a0Western official\u00a0familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0that \u201cdirect dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now \u2018undeniable.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored\u200a\u2014\u200aindeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who are integral to the anti-ISIS coalition.\u00a0Which then begs the question as to why Hollande and other Western leaders expressing their determination to \u201cdestroy\u201d ISIS using all means necessary, would prefer to avoid the most significant factor of all: the material infrastructure of ISIS\u2019 emergence in the context of ongoing Gulf and Turkish state support for Islamist militancy in the region.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

There are many explanations, but one perhaps stands out: the West\u2019s abject dependence on terror-toting Muslim regimes, largely to maintain access to Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asian oil and gas resources.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the post:\u00a0So Who\u2019s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. \u201cAllies\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a lot going on lately, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if you missed the latest drama from\u00a0of U.S. ally, and sometimes ISIS\/al-Qaeda supporter Turkey.<\/p>\n

Recently, a peace petition circled the globe\u00a0calling on the Turkish government to end fighting against Kurdish militants in the country\u2019s southeast, which has reportedly led to thousands of civilian deaths. By January 15th, 2,000 Turkish academics had signed the petition, which was too much for authoritarian president\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to handle. He not only publicly denounced the entire affair, he went ahead and started arresting people.<\/p>\n

Nature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of Turkish academics are waiting to find out whether they will be prosecuted or sacked for spreading \u201cterrorist propaganda\u201d, after they signed a petition calling for violence to end in Turkey\u2019s southeast, where government forces have been fighting Kurdish separatists.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition A senior\u00a0Western official\u00a0familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0that \u201cdirect dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now \u2018undeniable.\u2019\u201d ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored\u200a\u2014\u200aindeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3315,23,1239,446,447,4285,6174,522,11828,818,827],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-academics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-middle-east","tag-peace-petition","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}