Interpol Alert Issued By Turkey For Exiled Journalists President Erdogan Wants To Toss In Jail
from the shut-up,-he-BOLOed dept
Turkey's government has already locked up more than 70 journalists -- most of them in the wake of a failed coup. President Recep Erdogan says the imprisoned journalists are terrorists and criminals, but rather than offer evidence of wrongdoing, Erdogan just keeps throwing more of them in jail.
The notoriously thin-skinned president has been eliminating dissent and criticism since he took power, so there's no reason to give his accusations of criminal activity credence. Erdogan has leaned on favorable laws elsewhere in the world to press for criminal charges and extradition of citizens of other nations who've offended his delicate sensibilities.
As a player on the world stage, Erdogan and his government will use whatever tools they have available to continue to eliminate their critics. It appears Erdogan is now asking the world's police forces to help him track down journalists he hasn't yet jailed. (h/t Mutlu Civiroglu)
Journalism in Turkey has come under renewed scrutiny after an Istanbul court issued an international arrest warrant for two prominent writers living overseas.
In a hearing against journalists linked to the Cumhuriyet newspaper, the 27th High Criminal Court said it would request the issuance of Interpol “red notices” for Can Dundar and Ilhan Tanir. The order notifies all Interpol member states that the individual has pending arrest warrants.
Mr Dundar, the newspaper’s former editor-in-chief, and Mr Tanir, its ex-Washington correspondent, currently live in Germany and the US respectively.
No one's under any obligation to arrest and extradite these "criminals." And certainly no one should feel they have to enforce Turkey's draconian anti-press measures halfway around the world. But it will make travel difficult, as databases will be pinged and info alleging criminal activity will be returned. If they happen to travel to a country that feels compelled to take Turkey's disingenuous government at its word, these journalists find themselves being sent home to face ridiculous charges in a kangaroo court.
Critical speech is its own crime in Turkey, despite what Erdogan says publicly.
“Turkey numbers among the world’s leading countries in matters of press freedom, the most advanced communications technologies, social media, the internet and journalism,” he said on Journalists’ Day in January.
You can only get away with saying something this ridiculous in a country where a large majority of news services are under direct government control and internet blockades are only a kill-switch away. When most of your journalists are in jail or have left the country, you're not in the running for Free-est Press in the World awards. You're just a thug in nation-state clothing.
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Moslem regimes and journalists?
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They both separately hate a free press.
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Nothin' personal .. jus bizness.
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...it kinda seems like if that were the case, then Erdogan would be helping cover up the murder, instead of, you know, spending the past two weeks very publicly calling attention to it.
Christ, this is "Saddam is cooperating with Osama" all over again. Just because two leaders are both bad people, and both are Muslim, doesn't mean they're collaborating.
There are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world. They're not actually all friends with each other.
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What clothing, Erdogan's skin is so sensitive that clothes would bruise it.
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Obviously, he agreed with me on the excellence of the clothing, and bought three whole outfits.
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Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
Maybe we should ask MBS for help with that...
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He’s our only hope for any kind of justice for Jamal Khashoggi.
It's like a hundred years' worth of global irony reserves got used up to craft a single sentence.
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Trump and outright bold faced lies...
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The orginal is barefaced.
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I'll be here all week, please remember to tip your bartender and wait staff.
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Blurred lines? Slippery slope? Or past that, and there are too many outrages to keep our attention.
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Forget those who perpetrate genocide, human trafficking or child abuse - there are journalists on the loose, damnit!
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Good old Gollum
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why do I read ....
...... must be the Eragon film
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Like, I don't know, Germany?
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-allows-prosecution-of-a-comedian-who-mocked-erdogan- 2016-4
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Some clarification?
This is not a boots-on-the-ground organization.
That is just a network for information exchange.
There are no Interpol agents running around, searching for suspects. Except they do have a President, but that just had been disappeared in China. Sucks to be him?
Anyway, good luck finding a police agency in those countries to be willing to arrest those journalists, just on a whim of that turkish despot!!
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President Gollum needs thicker skin
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His micron thin skin(to compensate for his planet sized ego I'd guess) would be fine if he was just some nutjob ranting on the streets, demanding people give him the respect he so clearly deserves.
The problem is said nutjob is in a position where he has power over other people, lots of other people, and appears to have absolutely no hesitation is making people 'respect' him, and punishing anyone he can reach who dares criticize the little tin-pot dictator.
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