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There are two shocking things in this case, said Sinan Ulgen, Chairman of Istanbul's Edam think tank. "One is the fact that Turkey is now unable to keep a conversation at the highest level in the security establishment...secret.
The second shocking thing is that despite every measure they have taken since December 17, including the purge of many thousands of people including police, judiciary and probably other places, this continues to go on.
First: english.alarabiya.net
Second: @joshualandis
Third: Latuff Cartoons
Fourth: Mideastinsider.com
Fifth: sampsoniaway.org
Via youranonnews
Anonymous RT from @theblogpirate: "Well that's backfiring. The whole world is watching, Turkey."
We will wipe out Twitter. I don't care what the international community says...They will see the Turkish republic's strength.
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an election rally in the western province of Bursa | Global Post
Hours after Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan promised to "eradicate" Twitter in order to demonstrate the "the power of the Turkish Republic" on March 20, the ban went into effect. Users signing in from Turkey saw a message from the country's telecom regulator that the site was blocked for their "protection." But, then, a...
LOL. Not sure what looks worse: Banning Twitter or failing to ban Twitter in your country.
Via @DikenComTr
Erdogan as the Twitter Bird
(Or as one Twitter user said, "More like the 'Angry Bird'." Which made us chuckle, considering RTE's previous comment, "Why are the birds 'angry'?" Anyway, slightly off topic.)
Rate of female candidates in local elections in Turkey.
We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook. We will take the necessary steps in the strongest way.
Erdogan on Thursday discussing the possibility of banning YouTube and Facebook | Reuters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to ban Facebook and YouTube in Turkey in an attempt to stop political foes anonymously posting audio recordings purportedly exposing corruption
Damn.
And the man is not bluffing. Recall, he’s banned YouTube before.
The coup initiated on December 17 has totally collapsed and has been beaten back.
RTE to his ruling AK party in parliament, referring to the date of the first of a series of police raids on businessmen and the sons of several cabinet ministers in connection with the probe, Financial Times
Turkish police scrub the graffitied name of the protester killed during last summer’s protests, Ali Ismail Korkmaz, off a Toma last night in Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
'Deporting foreigners was a ploy by the government against those who said things that the government didn’t like in the ’90s, but which we hadn’t seen since,' said Andrew Gardner, Turkey researcher at Amnesty International. 'That these measures are used again is worrying.'
Ayla Albayrak, "Turkey's Latest Media Crackdown Weapon: Deportation," The Wall Street Journal
(re: recent deportation of Today's Zaman journo Mahir Zeynalov)
'My deportation comes weeks after a massive smear campaign against me both on mainstream and social media, many of them vowing that I will be deported,' he [Mahir Zeynalov] said by email from Azerbaijan. 'It is definitely a message to foreign journalists and constitutes the start of a troubling trend for foreign journalists accredited in Turkey.'
"Journalist Kicked Out Of Turkey, Allegedly For His Tweets," Buzzfeed
"Over the last decade, Erdogan has made himself the most powerful prime minister in Turkey’s history, the most successful elected leader in the Middle East and the West’s great hope for the Muslim world. In the last year, however, a thoroughly different Erdogan has emerged: a symbol of authoritarianism, corruption and police brutality whose once-populist rhetoric has turned into thundering rage."
-Suzy Hansen, "Whose Turkey Is It?" The New York Times (via alymeetsturkey)
The Turkish lira has been getting slammed as the country grapples with an anti-corruption probe.
"For those concerned about Turkey's political crisis, Nomura's senior political analyst Alistair Newton thinks 'the risk to medium-term political stability is being overstated in some of the media – a tendency, which is likely to persist near-term as events continue to unfold.'
He expects the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party to do well at the March 30 elections and expects Erdogan 'to remain the dominant political figure for the foreseeable future, as either prime minister or the country’s first directly elected president.'"
A tiny fishing village called Garipce holds a clue to understanding the largest corruption scandal in Turkish history.
"'The relationship between the construction industry and the AKP is straightforward: They get the big government contracts,' said Oghuzan Dincer, a Turkish economist at Illinois State University in the town of Normal who studies corruption, via e-mail. 'What is more important is their presence in Turkish media. These firms own the majority of the radio and television stations, and the AKP and Erdogan use these as propaganda machines.'
Sabah and other pro-government media call the probes politically motivated, rejecting any implications of corruption. Opinion pieces in the pro-Erdogan press don’t refute the allegations of corruption, arguing instead that these projects were awarded to speed up infrastructure investments, said Global Source’s Yesilada."
The removal of the prosecutor, Muammer Akkas, is a new sign of a profound power struggle over Turkey’s judiciary and police forces.
"The prosecutor, Muammer Akkas, issued a condemnation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, accusing it of interfering in the judiciary and preventing him from carrying out his work.
Mr. Akkas said that the government had prevented the police forces from pursuing a new round of suspects in the widening inquiry. Among those suspects, according to several Turkish news media reports, is Mr. Erdogan’s son, whose name was on a summons that was leaked to the press on Thursday evening.
'The judiciary has clearly been pressured,' Mr. Akkas said in a written statement, charging his superiors with 'committing a crime' for not carrying out arrest warrants, and saying that suspects had been allowed to 'take precautions, flee and tamper with evidence.'"
