{"id":20185,"date":"2016-04-24T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20185"},"modified":"2016-04-24T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T13:49:00","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-goes-full-dictator-arrests-dutch-journalist-for-critical-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20185","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet<\/a><\/h3>\n
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One month ago, we\u00a0cited Turkey’s president Tayyip Recep Erdogan\u00a0<\/a>who said that “it is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title,”\u00a0<\/strong>when was urging parliament to include\u00a0journalists, politicians, academics, and activists under the country\u2019s anti-extremism laws<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Erdogan\u2019s comments came a day after the latest in a string of suicide bombings ripped through Ankara, killing 34 and wounding more than 100 in Kizilay. Since then, Turkey has arrested nearly 50 people with \u201csuspected ties\u201d to the PKK against which Erdogan is waging a highly personal crusade.<\/p>\n

However, Turkey’s President didn’t think parliament was moving fast enough on his \u201crequest\u201d to expand the definition of \u201cterrorist\u201d because in a speech on Wednesday,\u00a0he effectively instructed lawmakers to get moving before also urging parliament to deal with “the issue of immunities.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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True to form, Erdogan didn’t wait on parliament to expand the “terrorist” definition before he went ahead and\u00a0arrested three academics for “terrorist propaganda<\/strong>” after they made the mistake of publicly asking the government to stop the siege on Cizre and other cities in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.”<\/p>\n

Then, when a British citizen who teaches at Bilgi University showed up at the courthouse to support the lawyers, he was also arrested. His crime, in his own words: “I am accused because I had several invitations to Kurdish new year<\/strong>\u00a0(celebrations on March 21) published by the HDP – the third-largest party in the Turkish parliament – in my bag.”<\/p>\n

It has gotten so bad, and Turks are so terrified of their despotic “leader” that\u00a0two months ago<\/a>, a Turkish truck driver literally sued his own wife for cursing at Erdogan when he spoke on television. “I warned her,” the man later said.<\/p>\n

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Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet One month ago, we\u00a0cited Turkey’s president Tayyip Recep Erdogan\u00a0who said that “it is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title,”\u00a0when was urging parliament to include\u00a0journalists, politicians, academics, and […]<\/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":[359,1479,818,819,857,4318],"class_list":["post-20185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-germany","tag-netherlands","tag-turkey","tag-twitter","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185","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=20185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20187,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185\/revisions\/20187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}