Posted on 09/05/2018 4:39:27 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Medeni Duran wrote that his imprisoned brother Metin "cannot walk, speak, or eat and does not recognize anyone anymore. He can only breathe."
Mistreatment and even torture of journalists and media employees, along with arbitrary arrests, are getting alarmingly commonplace in Turkey.
At least 183 journalists and media workers in Turkey in are being held, either in pretrial detention or serving a prison sentence, according to the Platform for Independent Journalism.
Dissident journalists and writers in Turkey increasingly face government threats and arbitrary arrests for their work and opinions, but for Metin Duran, the punishments have been even more grotesque.
Duran, 37, has been jailed on terrorism-related charges in Sincan Prison, near Ankara, since March 30, 2018. But he is not aware of where he is or what the court decided about him.
A former journalist for Radyo Rengin, a radio station in the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Duran lost part of his memory, along with his ability to walk and speak, after a stroke that followed a heart attack on October 10, 2015. Yet despite these crippling disabilities, he was sent to prison on March 30 and remains there, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA) reported.
Ahmet Kanbal, the journalist who covered Duran's imprisonment for Mezopotamya, told Gatestone:
"Duran's trial got started in 2015 and lasted for more than a year. He was eventually sentenced to a prison term of three years, one month, and fifteen days. His lawyer then appealed to the Supreme Court; this proceeding also lasted for more than two years. When Duran's punishment was finally approved, he was arrested on his sickbed on March 30."
Duran's radio station was shut down by emergency decree following an attempted coup in 2016 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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There are no Journalists left in Turkey. They are all in prison, exiled or dead. All that is left are State Approved Propagandists.
Often people on FR joke about "being in a Turkish Prison". This is no joke, it is a deadly reality of life in Turkey.
The is no Adalet (Justice) in Turkey. The legal system is over ridden by any edict by Erdogan the Islamist.
ISIS, al-Qaeda (Nusra) and the Muslim Brotherhood have found shelter in Erdogan's Turkey.
May God help the remaining good people in the Region.
Was he a bad machine, walking the wheel?
No, just in the wrong place at the wrong time and was caught up in the Erdogan Faux Coup.
Uzay does a good job of research. She grew up in Turkey. She speaks the language and knows the history. She is in US now.
How do countries like Turkey and Venezuela come under such dictatorships so easily??????????????
Deception, disarm the public, Propaganda, bribery, blackmail, murder, destruction of the rule of law, chaos.
They promise everything, deliver for short while until collapse. Then everyone is subjected and enslaved.
As a youth, Erdogan the Islamist carried a copy of Mein Kampf. One of his childhood friends described him walking around and quoting from it.
Turkey committed the Great Evil (Metz Yeghérn, the Armenian Genocide) at the End of WWI. They have never ever admitted it. (also Greek, Assyrian, Ezidi, Alevi, Jews, Kurds.)
It is still going on. Massacres and Genocide. They still deny it, and severely punish anyone who tells the truth about it.
And Turkey employs thousands of ISIS, al-Qaeda (Nusra), al-Sham Terrorists, in Syria. And Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists are sheltered in Turkey since Egypt expelled and imprisoned the MB leaders there.
This is the kind of case Amnesty International is supposed to investigate and report.
Yes. But the EU is looking the other way. This is not the first crime like this. But the rules are different for Turkey.
They have hidden their real nature since WWI, but never has it been like this. Always before when the Islamist gained power, the military took control and had a coup. The faux coup in 2016 was faked, only to suppress the opposition.
Now everyone is afraid to say anything. If they do they are jailed, often for life.
How bad is it?
Mass transport of judges to presidential palace casts doubt on judicial independence
Given their yowling, journalists in the US probably think they are being treated worse than that poor man in Turkey.
The “Journalists” in the US haven’t seen anything yet.
It is coming. Incoming.
Yes, they are whining crying babies.
And they smell like they need changing.
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