Posted on 07/10/2017 8:41:31 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkey issued arrest warrants for 72 university staff, state media said on Monday, including a former adviser to the main opposition leader who staged a mass rally on Sunday to protest a crackdown since a failed military coup last year.
The warrants were issued under an investigation into the movement of the U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the attempted coup on July 15, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularist CHP, told a huge crowd on Sunday Turkey was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the government after completing a 25-day protest march from Ankara to Istanbul.
Police have so far detained 42 of the staff from Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University and Medeniyet University, which is based on the Asian side of the country’s largest city, Anadolu said.
It said eight of the 72 were from Bogazici, including well-known academic Koray Caliskan, who worked in the past as a voluntary adviser to Kilicdaroglu, according to a CHP official.
The other 64 people being detained were from Medeniyet University, 19 of whom were medical faculty professors, Anadolu said. All were suspected users of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app the government says was used by Gulen’s followers.
About 50,000 people have been arrested and 150,000 state workers including teachers, judges and soldiers, have been suspended in the crackdown under emergency rule which was imposed soon after the attempted military takeover.
Kilicdaroglu launched his 450 km (280 mile) march after fellow MP Enis Berberoglu became the first CHP lawmaker jailed in the purge, sentenced to 25 years in jail on spying charges.
Rights groups and government critics say Turkey has been drifting towards authoritarianism for years, a process they say accelerated since the coup bid and a referendum in April granting President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers.
The government says the crackdown and constitutional changes are necessary to address security threats. More than 240 people were killed in the coup attempt.
2 Million people gather, so he arrests 72 university professors.
The 25 day march from Ankara to Istanbul and the huge demonstration after the Justice March was completed, made Erdogan feel uncomfortable?
Ohh wees. The Dictator feels uncomfortable.
I forgot he now has his "super powers".
Turkey/Syria Ping
i’d take 72,000 arrests to detain the university traitors here.
University orders 72 turkeys for dinner. All chicken fried
For former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey was a centre of the Islamic world and deserved influence from Bosnia to Arabia in lands Constantinople controlled under the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey had high hopes that the Arab Spring uprisings would bring into power Sunni Muslim governments that would be under Turkish influence.
But the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and failure to unseat Syria’s Bashar al-Assad put paid to these goals.
https://www.independent.co.ug/failed-coup-takes-toll-turkeys-foreign-policy/
After the failed coup 2016:
some 50,000 people have been arrested and over 100,000 fired or suspended from their jobs. The government imposes control over the army, whose political influence ebbs.
On July 16-17,2016, hundreds of generals, judges and prosecutors are arrested across Turkey on allegations they participated in the failed coup. The purges widen to include the police, the education system and the media.
On July 20, Erdogan proclaims a state of emergency and says other countries might be involved in the coup, while warning that it might not be finished.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/36337897/turkey-since-attempted-coup/
and now:
Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 105 information technology experts suspected of aiding last year's failed coup.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-issues-warrants-105-tech-experts-suspected-aiding-failed-coup-1629790
If all these people were involved in a coup, it would not have failed. The coup was a minor protest by a few in the army that were manipulated by Hakan Fidan/Erdogan.
My only disagreement with you statement is that it is Erdogan and his supporters who are living in a fantasy world, not all of Turkey. There is likely no shortage of military, political, legal, academic, and economic people who can see the train wreck coming. However, in the current climate those folks who are not in prison, are desperately trying to keep a low profile.
Erdogan is backing himself and others, Kurds especially, into a corner. They will soon realize that the time for talking may be ending and that they will have little choice but to fight. You could see a local or general Turkish civil war, or worse, a general Mideast war to sort out all the tensions that have built up there since the Ottoman collapse a century ago.
I agree with you, I used “Turkey” in a sloppy way. AKP is the demise of Turkey.
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