Turkey raids courthouses and jails in post-coup purge

[rooster59]

Turkey raids courthouses and jails in post-coup purge

 

 

Turkish police have raided courthouses and prisons as the post-coup crackdown continues.

 

Prosecutors issued 87 arrest warrants for court staff and raided three courthouses in Istanbul, as well as issuing 75 warrants for prison guards in three jails.

 

It comes as Turkey ordered the closure of 20 TV and radio stations, including one that airs a children’s programmes, on charges they spread ‘terrorist propaganda’. The latest move adds to concerns over emergency rule being used to muzzle the media.

 

President Erdogan said he wants to extend the three-month state of emergency to eradicate the threat posed by suspected plotters. At least 100,000 officials have been detained or sacked as part of the investigations.

 

Turkey blames US based cleric Fethullah Gulen for masterminding the July 15 coup. He recently countered that President Erdogan was behind the putsch, saying it allowed him to cleanse the army and ministries of opponents.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-10-01

[Grubster]

Theres more than one way for a coup to go wrong.

[zzo]

We were in Turkey when Erdogan won the his first election.  A friend of ours was a woman  doctor.  Her husband had been active in the opposing political party.   The morning when the election results were in, we went by to see her.  Her words were, "it's over for Turkey.   His wife is covered, we will slide back into fundamentalism."  

 

The army, prior to his election,  was the safeguard against reverting  back to a religion based government. One of Erdogan's first moves was to throw whole regiments into jail, and arrest most of the generals.    From then on it is history.   

 

If you look back at pictures of Iran in the 1960's, women dressed like women in Europe, and had most of the freedoms.  When their government went back to fundamentalism, all changed.  They are now back to the 1500's.  Covered in black.

 

Goodby Turkey, land of charm, lovely people, exotic wonders, laughter and friendly conversations.  History repeats itself, but few read history.

 

 

 

 

 

[puipuitom]

Read the history of Germany 1933+, where an "attack" of one Dutchman on the Parliament ( Reichstag) was misused to arrest all opponents of the Nazi party. June 1934, the Roehm Putsch or the Night of the Long Knives, when the former ally, the SA, was eliminated. The misuse of the military weak neighbours to occupy land which was formerly parts of the German Reich. Same as now happens with northern ( Kurdistan) Syria. 

Just as Hitler learnt from the Turks during WO1 ( .. "we will prosecuted for the extermination of the Jews when we loose the war" with the answer: "see the genocide on the Armenians, reported by dozens of our own military support in S.E. Ottoman Empire...nothing happened with that later "). Erdogan learnt a LOT of Hitler: erase all your opponents as quickly as possible, and .. complete !

[HerbalEd]

8 hours ago, Grubster said:

Theres more than one way for a coup to go wrong.

What's gone very wrong is the gross over-reaction to the attempted coup. Kinda makes the most recent Thai coup seem mild in comparison.

 

[Grubster]

34 minutes ago, HerbalEd said:

What's gone very wrong is the gross over-reaction to the attempted coup. Kinda makes the most recent Thai coup seem mild in comparison.

 

I just wonder what would happen if a very formidable force tried to overthrow England, France, Australia, USA,  I don't think the reaction would be much less brutal, but then it is so easy to judge from afar.  I would say that the thai coup is much worse as it was successful and has left 67 million people without an elected leader.