Posted on 07/25/2016 5:20:21 AM PDT by Petrosius
The pupils, aged between 14 and 17, were made to dress up in camouflage and were handed guns with empty magazines, according to their lawyers
Before the coup attempt last week, the pupils, aged between 14 and 17, were made to dress up in camouflage and were handed guns with empty magazines, according to their lawyers.
The children have been taken to prison and not allowed to speak to their parents as they were accused of treason against the Turkish State.
The mum of a 15-year-old boy caught up in the arrest, Emre, while waiting for news outside Istanbul’s Maltepe Prison said: “Our child has never held a gun before.
“They were used, they were forced to do this.”
The incarcerated kids families and lawyers fear their sons could be denied a fair trial due to mass purges in Turkey’s judiciary and anti coup protesters hunger for vengeance.
Emre’s terrified mother said the boys were subjected to a mass preliminary hearing in just one crowded courtroom which their families were barred from entering.
She added: “They got just two to three minutes to testify.”
Outside the prison, the dad of a locked up 14-year-old student says he has not been allowed to speak to his boy since last Friday when they were both at the school’s “cocktail party”.
He said: “Our son went to this school because he loved Atatürk and it was his decision to enrol.
“We have nothing to do with Gülen’s organisation.
“We have no sympathy for them.”
Interrupting his wife added: “They are just children.
“They are innocent.
“The state needs to separate the guilty ones from the innocent ones.”
Late 70s I watched a movie called Midnight Express. Never had any desire whatsoever to visit Turkey after that. The soundtrack was good though.
More reason to be concerned.
Pray for AP
I think a lot of those picked up in these mass arrests are going to disappear into Turkish prisons never to be seen again. Their remains will never be found or mass graves will be discovered decades from now.
TRUMP: Yes, some people say that it was staged. You know that?
SANGER: We’ve heard.
TRUMP: I don’t think so, but I do give great credit to him for turning it around. You know, the first hour, it seemed like it was over. Then all of a sudden, and the amazing thing is the one that won that was the people. They came out on the streets, and the army types didn’t want to drive over them like they did in Tiananmen Square when they sort of drived them over, and that was the end of that. Right? People said, I’m not going to drive over people. The people came out of their homes, and they were not in favor of what the military was doing. So that was quite impressive from the standpoint of existing government. I will say this: I think Turkey can do a lot against ISIS, and I would hope that if I’m dealing with them, they will do much more about ISIS.
My take on this is that Trump reads the New York Times too often, but he really cannot afford to make these kinds of misstatements.
Yeah, I am with ya there, man.
It’s only a matter of time until the public executions via beheading begin............................
These kids are hostages to ensure their parents compliance with Erdogan.
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Fang was stationed in Turkey in the 1960’s in the U.S.A.F.
It was stressful. The imams blaring from loudspeakers six
times a day really got on his nerves (unlike Hussein Obama),
some of the food wasn’t what he was accustomed to eating
(didn’t care for mutton), was in an earthquake. He made the
best of it as he usually does.
He did have one month in Greece which he enjoyed back then.
Maybe not now, though.
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