Posted on 08/26/2017 1:52:30 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkish government has arrested Mahmut Kahraman, a 47-year-old Kurdish bus driver, for wearing a T-shirt with the inscription ‘Kurdistan’. Kahraman was accused by a Turkish court in Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı province of ‘propagating for a terrorist organisation.’
It was reported that Kahraman was stopped by Turkish police as he passed by the municipality of Ağrı’s Doğubayazıt district because he was wearing a T-shirt with the inscription ‘Kurdistan’. Anti-terror police units were dispatched to the scene afterwards and detained Kahraman.
Following three days in detention, Kahraman was referred to a local court with a demand for his arrest, and he was jailed by the court over allegedly “spreading propaganda for a terrorist organization.”
According to a report by pro-Kurdish media, Kahraman’s relatives have claimed that he was tortured during his 3-day detention.
The T-shirts bearing the word “hero” have also become a contentious issue when military officer Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, was thrown out of the courtroom for wearing a T-shirt bearing the word “hero” because it caused tension between the parties during the hearing.
At least 37 people have been detained for wearing hero T-shirts since mid-last month.
He had T Shirt with word "Kurdistan". And 4 regional names for Kurdish areas. Bakur(Turkey), Bashur(Iraq), Rojhelat(Iran), Rojava(Syria).
That is enough to send you to prison?
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Too bad.
But what did he expect from Caliph Erdogan?
smile. I had been told you can get in trouble for posting that.
Oh yes, and more. He is lucky (I guess) that they are going through a show trial. People are killed and disappeared for this. Whole towns in South East Turkey have been shelled and invaded by Turkish security services with unknown numbers of deaths. Outside observers can't get into those areas.
He probably did not expect to get caught.
True That.
The pearl earrings look fake to me.
This is totally unsurprising. The Turkish government is ever more oppressive and paranoid.
Yes, I was just reading over on The Turkish Minute and it is absolutely full of very recent stuff.
A big shift is also taking place. Erdogan is not a very happy man right now. He took some hits in the past few days.
sure, it is a fake photo.
Started with a real pic of Erdogan, then they painted him up.
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