Bel Suave 's social stories. [OPINION] As a journalist, I refuse to be intimidated | Turkish Minute. By Abdullah Bozkurt The autocratic regime in Turkey of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not only broken an all-time world record in the number of journalists it has jailed, which now exceeds 150, but in the speed with which it moved to scapegoat journalists for terrible events that have occurred under its watch, without assuming any responsibility whatsoever for them as well.
When bomb attacks in Istanbul that killed 46 people and injured 166 took place on Dec. 10, the troll army on Twitter that is funded and supported by Erdoğan’s family spread the lie that BBC reporters knew about the attack in advance and had rented an apartment with a perfect view of the carnage. Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek, a major Erdoğan ally and an avid user of Twitter, lent support to the conspiracy and even alleged that the BBC and the UK had had a hand in the terror attack. Perhaps we saw the most bizarre twist in a conspiracy frenzy right after the failed coup attempt of July 15. With Turkish journalists gagged, ICG spotlights Nusaybin. Journalists hold placards that read "Journalists will be freed, they will write again" during a demonstration for World Press Freedom Day, Istanbul, May 3, 2017. (photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) Author: Amberin Zaman Posted May 3, 2017 Turkey has become a minefield for journalists. Over a hundred of them are in jail and thousands of others are unemployed, either because of government pressure or because their media outlets were shuttered.
The intrepid souls who soldier on often have to self-censor if they want to hold onto to their jobs. Foreign freelancers who aren’t guaranteed employment if they get kicked out of the country for rude reports about Turkey increasingly resort to self-censorship as well. The state of emergency in place since the failed July coup keeps getting extended. The report notes, "Nusaybin saw unprecedented violence in 2016, with a death toll of at least 184, of whom 24 were civilians.
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View mode switch This is the switch to hide and show comment points. Comment tracker Click here to show a list of existing comment points. Account options This is your avatar icon. Awesome Screenshot. Russia’s Wagner group fighters sighted in Syria. There is a checkpoint manned by guards armed with AK-74s near the base of the 10th Separate Special-Purpose Brigade of the Russian Defence Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in Molkino village, in the Krasnodar Territory. Beyond the checkpoint, reportedly, lies the camp of a private military company (PMC), said a source at the military unit.
There is no information on who owns this land but several neighbouring plots are registered as belonging to the territorial division of the defence ministry’s forestry department. The camp began functioning sometime in the middle of 2015, said two RBK sources who used to work there. There are barracks, a guard tower, a police dog unit, a training facility and a parking lot inside the camp. The existence of the camp has not being publicized; formally, PMCs are outlawed in Russia. However, participation by the Wagner group in operations in Syria could pave the way for the legalization of private military companies in Russia. Losses. "Credible Evidence" Shows Turkish Authorities Raped And Tortured Detainees Since 'Failed' Coup.
Via MiddleEastEye.net, Human rights group Amnesty International said on Sunday it had "credible evidence" of abuse and torture of people detained in sweeping arrests since Turkey's 15 July attempted military coup. The London-based group said some of those being held were being "subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centres in the country".
Amnesty said more than 10,000 people have been detained since the attempted coup, and the group called for independent monitors to be granted access to detention sites across Turkey. Amnesty raised serious allegations of mistreatment against Turkish police, who they said have held detainees in “stress positions, denied them food, water and medical treatment, verbally abused and threatened them, and subjected them to beatings and torture, including rape and sexual assault”. Another source told Amnesty between 650 and 800 soldiers have been detained at the Ankara police headquarters sports hall.
Israel-Cyprus-Turkey pipeline would provide new strategic triangle, says former US Ambassador Bryza - Daily Sabah. The former Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza said it is incorrect to say that the price drop in natural gas makes it economically infeasible to transport Leviathan gas to Turkey and added his hope that gas export from the Leviathan field would start in 2019. A former senior diplomat Bryza currently serve as a board member of Turcas Petroleum which is the leading Turkish energy investment holding that created Turkey- Israel natural gas pipeline project. Answering to Daily Sabah's questions on pipeline politics Bryza said that thus far, energy reserves have had a minimal impact on regional states' relations.
Underlining that if the Cyprus problem solved Turkey would provide the most economically attractive export route for Cypriot natural gas Bryza added that in this case an Israel-Cyprus-Turkey pipeline, would also provide a powerful mechanism for building a new strategic triangle among Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel. Matthew Bryza: US senator, former CIA director among high-profile figures named in Turkish criminal complaint | Turkish Minute. A group of Turkish lawyers have filed criminal complaints with the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against 17 prominent US figures on allegations of being members of the faith-based Gülen movement or supporting it.
Mehmet Sarı and Rıza Saka are two of the lawyers who filed the criminal complaints against former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, US Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) President David Cohen, President of the Turkic American Alliance (TAA) Faruk Taban, lawyer Zafer Akın from the Turkish Cultural Center, Kemal Öksüz from the Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians; Emre Çelik from the Rumi Forum, Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, former Turkish police chief Ahmet Sait Yayla, who currently resides in the US, Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Wilson Center, American political analyst Graham E.
Trump On Collision Course With Putin After Moscow Denies Syria Behind Chemical Attack. For the first time since his election, president Trump is set for a direct collision course with Vladimir Putin after Russia said on Wednesday it stands by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite widespread popular outrage over a chemical weapons attack which the media was quick to pin on the Syrian president, in a carbon-copy of events from 2013 which nearly launched a US invasion of the middle-eastern nation, when a YouTube clip - subsequently shown to be a hoax - served as proof that Assad had used sarin gas on rebels in a Damascus neighborhood. As reported yesterday, Western countries including the US accused Assad's armed forces for the chemical attack, which choked scores of people to death in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in a rebel-held area of northern Syria hit by government air strikes. The same chemical munitions were used by militants in Aleppo, where Russian military experts took samples in late 2016, Konashenkov said.
As a result, all eyes will now be on Trump's response. Officers who 'delayed' helicopter operation against Erdoğan reinstated - Turkish Minute. The officers and team who claimed to have delayed a helicopter takeoff for an operation against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a July 15 coup attempt were reinstated on Wednesday along with 412 others from various ministries and public institutions, the t24 news website reported. According to the report the pilots, Lt. Col. Yarbay Bahattin Akgün and Lt. Col. Serkan Çoban, who said they delayed the takeoff of a helicopter for the operation, and their co-pilot Hacı İbrahim Çalışkan and technician Yasin Sağkol were reinstated to their posts.
Brig. “The order came from Semih Terzi [commander of the special forces who was killed on the night of the attempted coup]. “While the whole world knew the president had gone to İstanbul, we were sent there, into a trap. … I am trying to find an answer to the question of ‘Who deceived us and kept us waiting for four hours?’” Maj. A 37-strong team of special forces members that attacked Erdoğan’s hotel on July 15 killed two policemen. Michael Flynn Discussed Covert Plan With Turkish Government. Michael Flynn, the Trump administration’s first national security adviser, met with Turkish government officials in September to discuss a covert and potentially illegal plan to excise a political enemy of Turkey’s president from the U.S., according to former CIA director James Woolsey.
Woolsey confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that he attended a Sept. 19 meeting in New York City in which Flynn and two Turkish government ministers discussed ways to obtain and remove Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who has lived in the U.S. since 1999. Woolsey, who served under Bill Clinton, told The Wall Street Journal that the plan was to make “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away.” “It seemed to be naive,” Woolsey told the newspaper of the plan to remove Gulen, who lives in self-exile in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania. “I didn’t put a lot of credibility in it. This is a country of legal process and a Constitution, and you don’t send out folks to haul somebody overseas.”
Flynn Built Elite Investigative Team As Foreign Agent. While serving as a top adviser on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Michael Flynn signed a contract in which he agreed to utilize an “investigative laboratory” made up of elite former intelligence officials, including a former CIA director, to conduct research and make “criminal referrals” on behalf of a Dutch shell company linked to the Turkish government, federal records show. But Flynn appears to have over-promised on the contract, which was signed on Aug. 9 between his firm, Flynn Intel Group, and Inovo BV, the shell company. R. James Woolsey, the former CIA director identified by his title in the contract as a member of Flynn Intel’s “investigative laboratory,” says he was not aware of and never agreed to perform any of the work laid out in the contract.
The investigative work promised by Flynn Intel was most likely focused on Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric exiled in the U.S. whose extradition is being sought by the Turkish government. Ekim Alptekin (Youtube screen grab) Storify Editor. Merkel Offers 'Olive Branch' To Russia As "Solution To Many International Conflicts"
After admitting to notable differences with President Trump during a press conference with Japanese PM Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel poured some cold water on the neocon narrative as she appeared to offer an olive branch to Russia - hardly painting Putin as the enemy of all and destroyer of worlds. Speaking at a news conference in Hanover with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuked President Trump's comment that Germany owes U.S. and NATO “vast sums," saying that no country spends its entire defense budget on NATO, reiterating her view that projects such as crisis prevention, foreign aid count toward defense budget, not just military spending.
Hmm... spot the odd one out! And finally Merkel stated that: "we want to have possibilities for scaling back sanctions when the Minsk accord is implemented, because we want to include Russia as an international actor in the solution of many conflicts. " Torture of political prisoners by Turkish forces. US blocking Barzani-affiliated peshmerga entering Syria, says KNC – KURDISH DAILY NEWS. Representatives from the Syrian Kurdish National Council (KNC), affiliated to Masoud Barzani’s KDP in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, have requested from the US that their fighters be allowed to enter Syria. The ‘Roj Pesh’ forces, trained by Turkish forces and KDP peshmerga in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, are currently deployed across Iraq and the Kurdistan region. Speaking to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency about his first visit to the US, the KNC’s foreign relations head Siyamend Haco said, “In all of our meetings with US officials we raised the issue of the Syrian peshmerga.
We have thousands of trained peshmerga in the Kurdish region of Iraq. They have participated in operations against Daesh [IS] in Mosul and Shingal. We requested that the US allow them to come into Syria to fight against Daesh.” “The most important meetings we had were in the White House with national security officials from the Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon desks. Source: Komnews. Zero Hedge now for use in Bulgaria too | Bulgaria Analytica. The cutting edge of the Russian propaganda in America, Bulgarian Daniel Ivandzhiyski, was rarely used for hybrid operations in Bulgaria. In practice, his financial blog Zero Hedge is almost unknown at home. However, a few days ago Mr. Ivandzhiyski was activated in Bulgaria by Boyan Chukov, a former communist foreign intelligence officer.
Apparently, Russian centers for information war against Bulgaria have been experiencing difficulties and were forced to finally release Zero Hedge for domestic consumption. Mr. Chukov’s position is particularly important to the Kremlin, as is evident from the title of an article published in the openly pro-Russian website Pogled (Overview): “Berlin and Sofia together against the “hawks “. Boyan Chukov Russia was particularly unnerved by the possibility of joint actions by NATO countries and Ukraine in the Black Sea. Using Zero Hedge in the Russian propaganda war against Bulgaria is something completely new. Professor Craig Pirrong By Konstantin Mishev. BRAINWASHING AND DUMBING DOWN TURKISH KIDS | venitism.
With corrupt terrorist Erdoğan’s plans for greater powers firmly on track, Turkey’s corrupt terrorist government has set about shaping the country’s future outside the halls of parliament. Last month, as parliamentarians brawled over — and finally voted for — constitutional changes designed to establish corrupt terrorist Erdoğan’s long-awaited dictatorial system, the ministry of education published a religulous draft curriculum for the new school year. Today we know very well we are just a sort of apes, all religions are wrong, there is no God, there is no afterlife, and all miracles are hoaxes. God is the most unpleasant character in all fiction! But many people refuse to accept reality that when they die that will be the very end of them, that they will cease to exist. Hoi polloi live on wishful thinking that they will live forever near God in another life!
Hitler used to say that hoi polloi believe big lies, not small lies! All religions are big lies. “This is loud and clear. Females on the Frontline: Meet the Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS. Sözcü columnist asks Turkish government: Was it a fake coup? - Turkish Minute. Is ‘Gülenist coup’ a hoax?.. ‘Turkey has become a country that’s devouring itself’ | TEMPORAL. Report: NATO sources suspect Turkey coup staged by president as pretext for purge - Turkish Minute. NATO insiders suspect staged Turkey coup ‹ aldrimer.no. The real reason Erdoganists still love Trump despite 'Muslim ban' Internet Vergi Dairesi. Isolate But Preserve: ISRAEL - THE GREATEST SPY MACHINE OF ALL TIME. [OPINION] Erdoğan’s hatred of Yazidis takes a toll in Turkey - Turkish Minute.
America's Supposed "Enemies" Are Literally Disappearing...But They Won't Likely Gently Fade Away. Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Istanbul Nightclub Attack As Manhunt For Gunman Continues. Syrian War Update – Al-Raqqa Offensive (January 3, 2017): Kurds vs. Islamic State - No Mercy. Manhunt Underway For Gunman Who Killed 39 At Istanbul Nightclub. Iranian president slams judiciary for failing to reveal businessman Zanjani's connections - Turkish Minute. [VIDEO] Following public outrage Interior Ministry deletes tweet targeting youths who criticize gov't - Turkish Minute.
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