Turkey is a land where one man, one vote, and one law prevails, and that one man is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan .... increasingly looking like a despot in any language.
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| Talking Turkey .... Its All The Rage |
I say this following the news that twelve academics in Turkey have been
arrested for denouncing military operations against Kurdish rebels in
the south-east, with police still processing paperwork against nine
other academics who also face arrest. The academics are being charged
with violating the controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, Hurriyet newspaper reported, by which it is illegal to insult the institutions of the Turkish nation.
