Posted on 02/22/2018 11:47:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil
A former head of Mazlumdar, a prominent Turkish human rights group, Gergerlioglu was sentenced for “disseminating terrorist propaganda”, a charge he denies.
The 53-year-old human rights activist was sentenced for a message he posted on Twitter on October 9, 2016, when he downloaded a photograph of a World Peace Day demonstration featuring Kurdish mothers protesting behind two symbolic coffins, one draped in the Turkish flag and the other in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) flag.
The PKK is proscribed as a terror group by Turkey, the EU, the United States and the United Nations.
Gergerlioglu tweeted the picture along with a message for peace in Turkish that said: “Looking at this picture, you will understand that this war has no meaning. Mothers the same, flags different.”
Responding to the charges before a court in the western Turkish city of Izmit, Gergerlioglu maintained that while he supported the peace process between the Turkish government and the PKK – which collapsed in 2015 – he never supported terrorism or the use of violence.
“I have never supported terror or terrorist organisations in word or deed. In fact, Mazlumder has made statements condemning the PKK. My posts on Facebook have been pro-peace,” he said.
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The photo was of a Kurdish mothers protesting behind two symbolic coffins, one draped in the Turkish flag and the other in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) flag. “Looking at this picture, you will understand that this war has no meaning. Mothers the same, flags different.”
There is no "Justice" (Adalet - in Turkish) in Turkey today. None.
American academics and organizations that don’t hesitate to criticize everything Israel does have been strangely silent as thousands of Turkish students and academics have been imprisoned and many schools closed by that country’s government.
Product of unity on the Left. They have an unspoken agreement to never criticize their own. No matter how terrible they act.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
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