Posted on 05/14/2018 5:57:32 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Turkish authorities recently banned nine translated books of various scholarly subjects about the Kurds, the owner of an Istanbul-based publishing house that released them told Kurdistan 24 on Sunday.
A local Turkish court in the Idil district of the Kurdish province of Sirnak deemed the books’ content in contravention of the anti-terror and press laws, citing articles that deal with “terrorist propaganda.”
Editor and founder of the publisher Avesta, Abdullah Keskin, said over the phone that a ruling by the court dated back to September last year. However, he was notified of it on Friday.
“To be seized, collected, and be banned from printing, distribution, and sale,” read a copy of the ruling Kurdistan 24 received.
The decision was taken in relation to the trial of two detainees whose houses were raided for allegedly working with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Police presented the books they seized from the detainees’ houses as evidence of a crime.
Among the books was one on the faith and prayers of the Ezidis, an ethnoreligious Kurdish group that faced genocide and whose thousands of women and children were sexually enslaved by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.
A Turkish-language translation of Dutch Professor Philip Kreyenbroek’s “God and Sheikh Adi Are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition” has been in circulation since 2011.
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EU do you remember the book bans? I have yet to see the book burning bonfires, yet. But there are a lot of other similarities.
Remember, the Ottoman Empire (who Erdogan dreams of restoring) banned the Gutenberg printing press when it was invented. And it was a very very long time before the use of it was allowed in the Ottoman Empire.
There has never been freedom of the press allowed in either the modern Turkish nation or in the Ottoman Empire. Not ever.
So here we are again remain.
So here we are again remain.
“But I didn’t know until this day, that it was Barzani all along.”
Barzani (current leader) is not a supporter of the PKK, in fact I think he is too close to Erdogan because of oil deals.
But Barzani’s ancestors were supporters of Kurdish independence. Hence, Erdogan targets these books.
The point is book burning is still ignorance and only practiced by dictators.
No Islam, know peace.
Know Islam, no peace.
Great quote.
Bump
Propaganda doesn’t work if everyone knows the truth!
Oh there is no truth allowed within Turkey. Never was within the Ottoman Empire either. All of the Journalists are in prison (or dead or exiled).
Even the Kemalist’s march to Istanbul was aimed at exposing that.
Their banner was “Adalet” (Justice). They never identified as Kemalist, but those leading the march which gathered 1 million people near Istanbul were never punished by Erdogan.
He is still very afraid of them.
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