Posted on 06/05/2018 2:39:51 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The perception of a severe decline in rights and freedoms has been a constant factor among international observers of Turkey in recent years, as seen in a steady stream of reports by reporters, rights groups and lawyers on the country now known as the worlds largest jailer of journalists.
For Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, though, such criticism may as well have come from a parallel universe. Speaking to Judy Woodruff in a filmed interview for the U.S. channel PBS, Çavuşoğlu said that far from restricting citizens rights, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has in fact brought them to Turkey.
(T)here is a freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of journalism in Turkey. And we brought all these freedoms to Turkey, Çavuşoğlu told Woodruff in response to a question on whether the government was open to criticism from journalists.
Its not only criticism, every day they attack me, attack the president, he said.
Yet Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling party had been dedicated to democratic reform, and their success in this area had been defined abroad as a silent revolution, Çavuşoğlu told Woodruff.
(Excerpt) Read more at ahvalnews.com ...
He does not look like Joseph Goebbels, but he must be related. Pure Orwellian Doublespeak.
Such bold and obvious lies would not be possible, without the extreme oppression of journalists, that the AKP has imposed in Turkey.
Turkey now has more journalists in jail than China.
Yes, absolutely. Baghdad Bob thought about that one too.
But decided the Goebbels photo fit better to his personality.
That is true. And I read somewhere that Turkey on the Freedom Index has deteriorated at the fastest rate of any country in the world in the past 10 years.
We had an in-exile Turkish journalist speak to us at Rotary a couple years ago. He was lucky to get himself and his family out of Turkey with their lives.
There is no way Turkey should be part of NATO.
Agree.
Am about to post this:
Turkish judge expels journalist brothers entire defence team
https://ahvalnews.com/media/turkish-judge-expels-journalist-brothers%E2%80%99-entire-defence-team
More of the same.
Opps. I did not look at the date, It was in 2017. Sorry. But it is still the same.
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