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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Turkish Objectives in Syria

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Turkish prime minister threatens to ‘wipe out’ Twitter over corruption allegations

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Turkish PM says rival will "pay price" as new recordings emerge

KIRIKKALE, Turkey (Reuters) – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday berated an Islamic cleric he accuses of plotting to wreck his government, as more voice recordings apparently intended to embarrass the Turkish leader were aired on the Internet.

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Turkish Citizens Say No to Internet Censorship, Take the Streets in Protest

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People of Turkey taking the streets against new Internet Censorship law. Protests against an increase in internet censorship in Turkey took to the streets again tonight in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.

This new Censorship Law will allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to block websites and censor any internet content without a prior court decision.

The legislation also would force Internet service providers to keep records on Web users’ activities for two years and make them available to authorities when requested, without notifying the users.

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Internet access in Turkey is already restricted and thousands of websites blocked. The independent press agency Bianet estimated that 110,000 websites were blocked in 2011 alone, while Google reported Turkish requests to remove content from the web rose nearly 1000% last year.

Proposed amendments to Law No. 5651 would provide for additional penalties on authors, content providers, and users of content it deems inappropriate with no effective means of redress. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been openly critical of the internet, calling Twitter a “scourge” and condemning social media as “the worst menace to society”. Both Twitter and Facebook were widely used by anti-government protesters to spread information during demonstrations last year.18:55

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Ankara Thousands marched to Kızılay, protesting the new internet censorship bill recently approved by president Abdullah Gül.

Freedom of speech is already restricted in Turkey in many ways through bans, arrests of journalists and alleged pressure by politicians. A report by a committee to protect journalists defines Turkey as the “world’s leading jailer of journalists” in 2013. In the same year, Turkey ranked 154 out of 179 countries in the Press Freedom Index by Reporters without Borders.

The levels of self censorship that will occur amongst everyday Turkish citizens and activists when the knowledge that they could be legally targeted for their online activity once the new measures are implemented are impossible to estimate. As well as what content will be banned or groups of people will become targets and possible face arrest for what they say and do on-line. One thing is clear to many, the passage of this new bill is not going to create a safer environment for the Gezi protesters.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Turkish Internet controls ignite public anger

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From a campaign to “unfollow” President Abdullah Gul on Twitter to an opposition appeal to Turkey’s highest court, Turks vented their anger on Wednesday at a new law tightening government control of the Internet.

Gul approved the legislation, which will let the authorities block web pages within hours and collect data such as users’ browsing histories, late on Tuesday, bolstering Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan but raising renewed concerns about free speech.

Erdogan’s critics say the law, along with a bill increasing government power over the judiciary, as an authoritarian response to a corruption inquiry shaking his government and as an effort to stop leaks about the case circulating online.

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Friday, January 31, 2014

The Turkish Special Forces Face Their Greatest Challenge Yet: A Door

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Turkish police fire water cannon at protesters rallying against ‘Internet censorship’ law (PHOTOS)

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, Turkey retaliates

Supporters of Egypt’s deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood wave Turkish and Egyptian flags during a rally in protest against the recent violence in Egypt, outside of the Eminonu New mosque in Istanbul August 17, 2013.

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Egypt detains Turkish citizen on charges of espionage: report

CAIRO | Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:46am EDT

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has detained a Turkish citizen on suspicion of spying and collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday.

The arrest could be a new source of tension between Ankara and Cairo whose relations have all but broken down since Mohamed Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has close ties with Turkey’s ruling AK Party, was ousted from the Egyptian presidency in July.

Rasit Oguz, a 46-year-old Turk, was arrested in the city of Ismailia northeast of Cairo on August 28 while taking photographs of military establishments, security sources said.

MENA said delegates from the Turkish mission in Cairo were following up on his case and had visited him in detention.

Turkey has emerged as one of the fiercest international critics of Mursi’s removal, calling it an “unacceptable coup”.

It recalled its ambassador in August after a violent crackdown on Mursi’s supporters. He returned to Cairo this month but Egypt said it would not reciprocate until Turkey stopped its “interference”.

(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Turkish Filmfest invites Iran’s Farhadi

Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has been invited to the 50th Golden Orange International Film Festival in Turkey as the honorable guest.

Farhadi is slated to attend the Turkish festival along with the Iranian director and actor Ali Mosaffa who starred in Farhadi’s Paris-set tale drama The Past.

The festival will also screen The Past and Farhadi is set to participate in the film review that will be held on the side line of the gala.

The Golden Orange film festival is annually held in the Turkish city of Antalya from September 20 to 27, 2013.

Farhadi is currently in the United States, attending the 40th edition of Telluride Film Festival kicked off on August 29; then, he will go to Toronto where his latest creation The Past is scheduled to be screened at the year’s film festival.

The film is also to take part in the Adelaide International Film Festival in Australia in October, 2013.

Farhadi’s smash-hit drama The Past (Le Passé) has recently scooped award at the 41st Norwegian International Film Festival (Niff).

Oscar-winning Iranian director Farhadi’s film received Andreas Award (World Church Award) at this year’s Norwegian competition.

Farhadi’s Cannes competition entry, The Past that was screened at the International Competition section of the festival was recognized as the Best Spiritual Film of the event.

The film also garnered two prizes at the 66th Cannes film festival including the Best Actress award that went to Argentine-French actress Berenice Bejo, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (prix du Jury acuménique).

Asghar Farhadi’s family drama A Separation took the 2012 Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead

A worker fixes a giant portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at the top of the Ataturk Cultural Center in Istanbul’s Taksim Square June 28, 2013.

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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey | Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:45pm EDT

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded six on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, officials said.

The incident appeared to be the most violent in the region since a ceasefire declaration by Kurdish militant chief Abdullah Ocalan in March that led to a virtual standstill in the conflict between his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish state.

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party called earlier in the day for marches in three major cities this weekend to launch a summer of protests aimed at raising pressure on Ankara to carry out reforms under a peace process with the PKK.

The shooting, which occurred in the village of Kayacik in the Lice district of Diyarbakir province, was likely to stoke tension among the weekend marchers, although leaders stressed the rallies would be peaceful.

Diyarbakir Governor Cahit Kirac said around 200 protesters marched on Friday onto the construction site where the outpost was being built to replace an existing one, with some throwing petrol bombs and setting fire to workers’ tents.

“At this point, the soldiers fired warning shots and a riot broke out. There were then reports of one person being killed and six people being wounded, two of them seriously. These reports are not confirmed, we are investigating,” Kirac said.

Turkish security sources earlier told Reuters they had a confirmed report of one person killed and seven wounded, but later revised the number of wounded to six.

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PKK militants began withdrawing from Turkish territory to bases in northern Iraq last month as part of a deal between the state and Ocalan, imprisoned on an island south of Istanbul since 1999, to end a conflict that has killed 40,000 people.

There has been little evidence of progress this month with public attention focused instead on weeks of unrelated, broader and often violent anti-government demonstrations in cities across Turkey.

But the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) said the withdrawal was continuing successfully and the process had entered a second stage during which Ankara needed to boost the rights of Kurds, who make up some 20 percent of the 76 million population.

“The government must urgently take the necessary democratic steps, listen to the demands of the people and fulfill the requirements of the second stage,” the BDP said in a statement declaring a summer of protest action.

It said it would start with marches on Sunday in Diyarbakir, Mersin and Adana, which were likely to attract thousands of demonstrators. Diyarbakir is the main city in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Mersin and Adana, in the eastern Mediterranean region, have large populations of Kurdish migrants.

Turkish authorities have already had to deal with three weeks of street unrest in cities including Ankara and Istanbul this month in which riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators night after night.

The BDP campaign will call for a halt to the construction of military outposts in southeast Turkey, the release of political prisoners, education in Kurdish, lowering of the threshold of 10 percent electoral support required to enter parliament, and the release of Ocalan.

The BDP said it has presented to the government a 25-article proposal on which action needed to be taken urgently.

Turkish media said Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told a commission of “wise people” advising on the peace process this week that the peace process had still not entered the second stage as only 15 percent of PKK fighters had so far left Turkey.

BDP leader Selahattin Demirtas responded by saying that at least 80 percent of the militants had either left Turkey or were en route to their bases in northern Iraq.

The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union, took up arms against the state in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish state, but subsequently moderated its goal to autonomy.

(Additional reporting by Daren Butler in Istanbul; Writing by Daren Butler and Jonathon Burch; Editing by Nick Tattersall and Mark Heinrich)

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Turkish Unions Hold National Strike as Protesters Face Worst Crackdown to Date

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AMY GOODMAN: In these last few minutes, we turn to Turkey, where a nationwide strike called by several of the country’s leading unions is underway now with calls to end the police crackdown on demonstrations. The Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions and the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions are among those filling the streets. Other groups representing doctors, engineers, dentists have also joined the action.

Today’s strike comes as riot police continued their violent crackdown on protesters, using tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. The anti-government protests have swept the country for more than two weeks and were renewed this weekend following the forced eviction of protesters at Gezi Park, which was occupied for 18 days by people protesting against plans for its redevelopment. The prime minister has defended the crackdown, saying he did his duty as prime minister.

For more, we go to independent journalist, also speaking to us from Istanbul and from Express magazine, Çiğdem Öztürk.

Can you describe what’s happening now?

ÇIĞDEM ÖZTÜRK: Well, hello. Can you hear me?

AMY GOODMAN: Yes, we hear you fine.

ÇIĞDEM ÖZTÜRK: OK, so, hello to everybody.

Actually, what’s happening at the moment in Instanbul is we are waiting a little bit tensely about the 4:00 rally, which is for the general strike declared by the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey and Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions. So, at 4:00 normally, the people will march in Taksim Square, but the Instanbul governorship declared that this is not a legal act, and they will not let the people walk. So, there is just a few minutes, and the people are gathering, not just in Istanbul; as this is a general strike, it’s all over Turkey and in other parts of Turkey, as well. The people, the civil servants and the workers are on strike, and they are walking. So we’ll see what’s going to happen.

Maybe I could tell you a little bit about what happened last night. Last night, Instanbul had to face one of the most brutal police attacks—and not just the police, actually, also the AKP, the ruling party, supporters were some—in some groups, were on the streets with sticks and knives, trying to attack the demonstrators. And yesterday, again, according to the bar association, here at least 400 people were detained. But the problem is there is no real numbers. So, they only get news by phones and by interviewing people, so we don’t know the exact numbers, and we don’t know the names of the people who were detained. Well, that’s the situation, in short.

AMY GOODMAN: Çiğdem Öztürk, we just have about 30 seconds, independent journalist, also speaking to us from Instanbul and from Express magazine. The significance of where these protests go from here?

ÇIĞDEM ÖZTÜRK: Well, actually, what’s going to happen, the main problem is the governor and the political parties are not so in the protests. Opining by the political parties is only the Justice and Development Party in the protest. The least is the people, I would say. I mean, they did [inaudible] on the prime minister naming the protesters as some workers and some, you know, terrorists. But, anyway, these are people. Just a part of it is from organizations. So this is a moment for the people.

AMY GOODMAN: Çiğdem Öztürk, we’re going to have to leave it there. I thank you very much for being with us. We’ll continue to cover Turkey.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Turkish PM defends his "duty" to end protests

Police chase protesters as Turkish riot police spray water cannon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, in city’s main Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

A man falls injured as Turkish riot police spray water cannon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, in city’s main Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

A protester kisses a national flag that he removed from a water cannon car as Turkish riot police spray water cannons2 at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, in city’s main Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Protesters shout anti-government slogans as Turkish riot police spray water cannon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, in city’s main Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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ISTANBUL (AP) â€” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday it was his “duty” to order riot police to evict activists occupying an Istanbul park that became a center of defiance against his rule, even as the government crackdown continued across town with tear gas fired at protesters trying to regroup.

In a thunderous speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters in western Istanbul, Erdogan also railed against foreign media coverage of the unrest amid criticism over his government’s handling of the protests that left his international image battered, and exposed deep rifts within Turkish society.

About 10 kilometers (six miles) away in central Istanbul, riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons on thousands of defiant protesters attempting to regroup and demonstrate again in the city’s main Taksim Square. Clashes broke out in nearby neighborhoods with stone-throwing youths.

Protesters are angry over the eviction of overwhelmingly peaceful activists at Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, who oppose government plans to rip down its trees and erect a replica Ottoman-era barracks. But the protests quickly spiraled into a widespread denunciation of what many say is Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian way of governing â€” charges he vehemently denies.

Speaking to his supporters, Erdogan recalled telling Interior Ministry officials: “You are going to clear Gezi Park. We have reached an end. We cannot stand it anymore.’ And as you know, yesterday the operation was carried out, and it was cleared.”

“I did my duty as prime minister,” he said, “Otherwise there would be no point in my being in office.”

Police in uniform and plain clothes sealed off Taksim Square and Gezi Park, which riot police cleared of thousands of peaceful protesters in a swift but muscular operation Saturday evening. Crews worked through the night to remove all traces of a sit-in that started more than two weeks ago and became the focus of the strongest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his 10 years in office.

Istanbul’s governor, Huseyin Avni Mutlu, said the square was off-limits to the public for the time being, and nobody would be allowed to gather. A spokesman for the protesters vowed the group would retake Gezi Park.

“We will win Taksim Square again and we will win Taksim Gezi Park again,” Alican Elagoz said.

Thousands of protesters trying to reach the area were stuck on side streets and in nearby neighborhoods in a blanket of tear gas. Stumbling to avoid the gas, they piled into nearby cafes and restaurants, where waiters clutched napkins to their faces.

Stone-throwing youths and riot police clashed in Istanbul’s Sisli neighborhood next to the Taksim area. Television footage showed police deploying two water cannon trucks against the youths, standing near a flaming barricade blocking the street. Rocks littered the roadway.

The protests in Istanbul began as an environmental sit-in to prevent a development project at Gezi Park, but anger over a violent crackdown there on May 31 quickly spread to dozens of cities and spiraled into a broader expression of discontent.

The protests have left at least five people dead, including a police officer, according to a Turkish rights group, and more than 5,000 injured.

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Fraser reported from Ankara. Burhan Ozbilici and Jamey Keaten in Ankara contributed to this report.

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“I did my duty as prime minister,” he said, “Otherwise there would be no point in my being in office.”

“We will win Taksim Square again and we will win Taksim Gezi Park again,” Alican Elagoz said.

The protests have left at least five people dead, including a police officer, according to a Turkish rights group, and more than 5,000 injured.

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Fraser reported from Ankara. Burhan Ozbilici and Jamey Keaten in Ankara contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Turkish gov"t open to referendum to end protests

A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag near a barricade on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul’s central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country’s most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A man runs carrying fire extinguishers past a burning van during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Police guard the monument of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkey, at the Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying the square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country’s most severe anti-government protests in decades. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A protester records a video with his cellphone in front of a burning barricade during clashes in Taksim square in Istanbul, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Ambulances stand by to evacuate injured protesters after riot police flooded the Gazi Park with tear gas during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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