Η αστυνομία πραγματοποίησε ταυτόχρονα επιχειρήσεις σε 34 επαρχίες της Τουρκίας στο πλαίσιο έρευνας με επικεφαλής τις εισαγγελικές αρχές στο Ικόνιο, την επαρχία αυτή της κεντρικής Τουρκίας, ανέφερε η Milliyet.
Σύμφωνα με την ίδια πηγή, οι ύποπτοι μπήκαν στο στόχαστρο των αρχών με βάση καταθέσεις στρατιωτικών, οι οποίοι στο παρελθόν είχαν συλληφθεί για διασυνδέσεις με τον ιμάμη Φετουλάχ Γκιουλέν και οι οποίοι θεωρούνται υπεύθυνοι για τα σχολεία που διαχειρίζεται το κίνημα του Γκιουλέν.
Το Γραφείο του Ύπατου Αρμοστή των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για τα Δικαιώματα του Ανθρώπου (OHCHR) ανακοίνωσε τον περασμένο μήνα ότι οι τουρκικές αρχές έχουν συλλάβει 160.000 ανθρώπους και έχουν απολύσει σχεδόν τον ίδιο αριθμό δημοσίων υπαλλήλων μετά το αποτυχημένο πραξικόπημα του 2016, για το οποίο η Άγκυρα κατηγορεί τον Γκιουλέν, αλλά ο ίδιος αρνείται κάθε ανάμειξη.
Μεταξύ των συλληφθέντων, έχουν επισήμως απαγγελθεί κατηγορίες εις βάρος τουλάχιστον 50.000, οι οποίοι έχουν προφυλακιστεί.
Οι δυτικοί σύμμαχοι της Τουρκίας καταγγέλλουν τις επιχειρήσεις καταστολής και οι επικριτές του προέδρου Ερντογάν τον κατηγορούν ότι χρησιμοποίησε το πραξικόπημα ως αφορμή για να πατάξει τους διαφωνούντες. Από την πλευρά της η Άγκυρα υποστηρίζει ότι τα μέτρα αυτά είναι απαραίτητα εξαιτίας των απειλών για την εθνική της ασφάλεια.
Πηγή
Turkey’s Erdogan always feared a coup. He was proved right.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήBy Ishaan Tharoor
July 15, 2016
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — the most significant ruler in the republic’s history since its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk — is obsessed with Egypt. Three years ago, a military coup there ousted the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, arrested him and his allies, ruthlessly cracked down on his Muslim Brotherhood, and installed a regime that remains in place to this day.
Morsi, an Islamist, seemed something of a kindred spirit to Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), a center-right party built on an ideology of Sunni Muslim religious nationalism. Erdogan fumed at Morsi’s removal and the brutal quashing of a government that, while unpopular, had won an electoral mandate. Many Egyptian Islamists who weren’t rounded up by the state fled to Istanbul to take sanctuary.
Last year, when the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the main architect of the coup, sentenced Morsi to death, Erdogan raged at both the powers-that-be in Cairo and the West, which had looked on at this extinguishing of Arab democracy with seeming indifference, perhaps even tacit relief.
“Egypt has given a death sentence to a president elected with 52 percent of the vote. Egypt is returning to the old Egypt,” he said, referring to its decades under dictatorship. “The West, unfortunately, still does not reveal its stance against the coup leader Sissi. While Western countries have been abolishing the death penalty, they are watching the death sentences in Egypt in complete silence.”
The echo of Egypt is important now, as Turkey reels in the grips of an attempted coup launched on Friday night against Erdogan’s rule. At the time of writing, it seemed the coup plotters weren’t blessed with an Egypt-style scenario: All of Turkey’s major opposition parties rallied around the elected government, despite their political differences. Mass protests on the streets appeared to support Erdogan and AKP rule.
According to some accounts, protesters even brandished the four-finger “Rabia” salute, a direct nod to the suppressed Islamists of Egypt.
During two election campaigns last year, Erdogan spoke gloomily of dark forces working against democracy and his government — foreign conspirators, even a “crusader alliance.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/15/turkeys-erdogan-always-feared-a-coup-he-was-proved-right/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.265e6ded791c
How a death sentence in Egypt feeds paranoia in Turkey
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήBy Ishaan Tharoor
June 17, 2015
On Tuesday, an Egyptian court upheld a death sentence on former President Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist politician who went from being the country's first democratically-elected leader to its most high-profile inmate on death row in the space of a couple of years.
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But the greatest outsider ire came from Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an outspoken critic of the Sissi government. Erdogan described the Egyptian verdicts as "a massacre of law and basic rights."
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Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish abbreviation AKP, have watched with horror what befell Morsi and his political allies.
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On May 16, the day Egyptian authorities originally handed down Morsi's death sentence, Erdogan addressed AKP supporters sympathetic to the cause of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
"Unfortunately, Egypt has given a death sentence to a president elected with 52 percent of the vote. Egypt is returning to the old Egypt," said Erdogan, referring to the decades of quasi-dictatorial rule under Mubarak.
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According to Ceren Kenar, a columnist for the Turkiye newspaper, the memory of Adnan Menderes -- a liberalizing Turkish prime minister who was friendlier to Islam than Ataturk and eventually overthrown and hanged by a military junta in 1961 -- haunts Erdogan's palace chambers.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/17/how-a-death-sentence-in-egypt-feeds-paranoia-in-turkey/?utm_term=.4ac3b2302a10
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