In 1998, Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was sent to - TopicsExpress



          

In 1998, Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was sent to prison for reciting a poem deemed as a crime by a Turkish court, which was then under big influence of once-powerful military. He was blamed for inciting animosity among public. Fifteen years later, Erdoğan pressed charges against me for tweeting a news report about a corruption scandal that implicated his government, with the same Turkish Penal Code article that landed him in jail before. His attempt to imprison me was blocked by chief Istanbul prosecutor, according to sources, and he eventually kicked me out of the country -- a measure even most authoritarian states rarely resort to. This particular incident, part of a troubling trend that set in motion a chain of anti-democratic policies in Turkey, is a bleak picture of a dramatic change Erdogan has gone through in more than a dozen years.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:12:40 +0000

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