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Merkel, Erdoğan and 'Islamist Terrorism'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Turkey further exposed the rift and tension not only between Ankara and Berlin, but also between Turkey and the Western world in general. First of all, Western politicians' remarks on freedom of speech and democracy in general are now doomed to fall on deaf ears in countries like ours.

Turkey: The district attorney asked for 142 year sentence for the president of the Kurdish political party!

 

The leader of the Kurdish political party HDP Selahattin Demirtas is being held in prison along with the vice-president Figen Yuksekdag for almost two months now. Ten more MPs have being put to prison with them.

 

The accusation against them is that they are members of PKK. Demirtas is facing a 142 year sentence and Yuksekdag 83 years imprisonment.

 

The big picture including Syria

The commando brigade was not fighting in the field when 14 of its members were killed and 55 of them, six of them seriously, were injured in the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri on Dec. 17. Just one week before, our hearts were bleeding for the victims of the terror attack in Istanbul's Beşiktaş. 

Peace journalism ASAP!

At a time when elected chairpersons and members of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are locked in jail without indictments, at a time when almost all Kurdish newspapers and TV stations are shut down, at a time when anybody who spells the word "peace" is automatically named and shamed for harboring terrorists, intellectual efforts in the opposite direction might see

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