Turkish Politics & Internal Affairs

[LA se Karachi]

China - Pakistan - Iran - Azerbaijian - Russia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Syria - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Saudi Arabia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq -Jordan - Israel - Egypt and beyond

Well, talking about connectivity, the possibilities provided by CPEC are infinite.

Exactly. If Iran and Turkey get on board, the possibilities for economic connectivity in the Eastern Hemisphere are almost limitless.

 

[Brutas]

Isn't there an organization called ECO already in existence connecting Mid East-Caucasus-Central/South Asia or is it like so many other forums, only exists in paper !

 

[simple Brain]

Unbelabable, few People on this forum bluntly speak up and do not look at the geostratgic location of Gawadar, I wasn't talking about you I was talking about some other People on this forum, but as you have asked?

How would CPEC help Turkey?

Well than Turkey certainly can setup it's manufacturing plant in Gawadar to deliver its good to rest of the Asia Africa and middle east China & Russia. Turkey is already in talks with Iran over road access to Pakistan for its goods to be delivered to and from Gawadar. Every Country in the world can take benefits from Gawadar only one needs a brain to figure it out, how?

 

[wiseone2]

And the turkish Minister is just too dumb ? right ?

what is he supposed to say ? CPEC has no relevance for my country. he is being diplomatic and he says nice things.
if i wanted to flatter pakistanis what do think I should say ?

China - Pakistan - Iran - Azerbaijian - Russia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Syria - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Saudi Arabia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq -Jordan - Israel - Egypt and beyond

Well, talking about connectivity, the possibilities provided by CPEC are infinite.

without Iran all CPEC possibilities end in Pakistan

 

[Syed Asif Bukhari]

what is he supposed to say ? CPEC has no relevance for my country. he is being diplomatic and he says nice things.
if i wanted to flatter pakistanis what do think I should say ?



without Iran all CPEC possibilities end in Pakistan

and u want to say that iran is in our pocket . right

 

[Solomon2]

Tables Have Turned for Some Media in Turkish Crackdown
Government seeks jail time for journalists linked to cleric Fethullah Gulen; some are in hiding

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Bulent Kenes, at the time the editor of Today’s Zaman, shows off his newspaper in Istanbul on Oct. 9, 2015, before his arrest for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. PHOTO: ISA SIMSEK/ZAMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

By DION NISSENBAUM
Sept. 6, 2016 9:58 a.m. ET

ISTANBUL— Bulent Kenes is a hunted man.

He was once one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most strident champions, editor of a top English-language daily at the forefront of government-backed efforts to take on critics. Now, he’s one of scores of Turkish journalists branded terrorists and facing years behind bars.

Western leaders and press freedom groups have rallied around their cause and accused Turkey of an unprecedented crackdown on free speech. But after years of hurling inflammatory accusations, Mr. Kenes and other journalists aligned with a U.S.-based imam accused of masterminding a failed coup are having a harder time finding sympathy at home.

“They have burned bridges with every single constituency in Turkey,” said Aaron Stein, a Turkey specialist at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

Turkey has detained around 100 journalists for alleged links to Fethullah Gulen, at one time one of Mr. Erdogan’s most important allies and now his biggest foe, as well as more than 35,000 of the imam’s other alleged supporters in the government.

Turkey wants the U.S. to extradite Mr. Gulen, who has denied any responsibility for the July 15 coup attempt, in which 240 people died. Mr. Kenes, who is open about his ties to Mr. Gulen and also denies a role, has a warrant out for his arrest. Police officials declined to discuss his case.

He says he has gone into hiding to avoid being jailed. Twice in recent weeks, Mr. Kenes says, police have raided his Istanbul home.

The former editor of Today’s Zaman says he has stopped using credit cards so that Turkish intelligence can’t pinpoint his whereabouts. And now his cash is running low, he says.

“I don’t know when I will be able to go home,” Mr. Kenes said. “I have no valid passport, I have gone from house to house, and things are only getting worse.”

TIMELINE​

• December 2013: Police arrest dozens with close ties to then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a corruption investigation. Mr. Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen of trying to force him from power.
• December 2014: Police raid newspapers and television stations tied to Mr. Gulen and arrest more than two dozen journalists accused of being part of a terrorist organization.
• September 2015: Turkish police seize Koza Ipek Holding, a Gulen-linked business that owns several newspapers. Government trustees take control of the company a month later.
• October 2015: Police arrest Bulent Kenes to face charges he insulted Mr. Erdogan, now the president, on Twitter. Police raid Gulen-linked outlets and cut live broadcasts on two TV stations.
• November 2015: A court orders the detention of journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul to face espionage charges over stories on covert arms shipments bound for Syrian rebels.
• March 2016: Police seize Today’s Zaman and its sister publication, Zaman. Both are taken over by government-backed trustees.
• May, 2016: An Istanbul court convicts Mr. Dundar and Mr. Gul of revealing state secrets and sentences each to more than five years in prison.
• July, 2016: In the wake of a failed coup, Turkey shuts down more than 130 media outlets and orders scores of journalists arrested. Outlets like Zaman and Today’s Zaman are shut down.
• August 2016: Turkish police raid two pro-Kurdish newspapers and shut them down.

Turkey has cracked down on journalists for years, but since the failed coup it has eclipsed China as the country with the most journalists behind bars, according to press activists. The latest targets have primarily been journalists aligned with Mr. Gulen, though the government has also taken on Kurdish outlets and others it deems unfriendly.

It has shut down every major media outlet openly sympathetic to Mr. Gulen, including Today’s Zaman. So far, more than 130 newspapers, publishers, radio stations and magazines—including some pro-Kurdish outlets—have closed.

Officials say they are going after all groups they see as threats, including supporters of Kurdish separatists using car bombs and suicide attacks to fight for autonomy. They aren’t targeting free speech, they say, but enemies of the state masquerading as journalists.

“There is a clear difference between punishing people for journalistic activities and holding people, who happen to be professional journalists, accountable for their crimes, including being a member of a terrorist group that killed 240 innocent people a month ago,” said one senior Turkish official, referring to the Gulen movement, which the government has designated a terrorist organization.

Now, when they need them, Gulen-linked journalists are finding few supporters.

Messrs. Erdogan and Gulen spent years as allies, fighting to break the grip on power of the secular elite. Gulen-linked newspapers published sex tapes that brought down opposition politicians, supported the arrest of rival journalists accused of supporting terrorists, and promoted now-discredited allegations that top generals were behind a conspiracy to overthrow the government.

But by 2013, the president broke publicly with Mr. Gulen, after Gulen-linked media spotlighted corruption allegations among a top circle of supporters and cabinet members, who denied the claims. Mr. Erdogan accused Mr. Gulen of creating a “parallel state” meant to bring down the government.

The coup attempt has been the catalyst for an accelerated effort to rid Turkey of any trace of Mr. Gulen and the supporters who propelled him to power.

“It looks like the revolution is eating its own children,” said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Mr. Kenes and others say they are being persecuted for their sympathies, not for any clear links to the suspected plotters of the attempted coup.

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The Istanbul headquarter of the Zaman newspaper, which was shut down by the government, on July 28. PHOTO: SEDAT SUNA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Sevgi Akarcesme, who succeeded Mr. Kenes as editor of Today’s Zaman, said she was removed from a flight from Europe to the U.S. in late July and told her passport had been canceled, like thousands of others with links to Mr. Gulen. Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for her.

Police arrested the wife of Bulent Korucu, editor of a Gulen-linked magazine, in July, saying she was part of Mr. Gulen’s organization. She is still in custody.

Her son, 22-year-old Burak Korucu, said the evidence they used was old copies of the Gulen-backed Zaman newspaper and a debit card from Bank Asya, a lender the government shut down after the failed coup.

While the older Mr. Korucu is in hiding, his son said his mother isn't very political and that police are putting pressure on the family.

“The police officer in charge threatened me, saying: ‘If we can’t find your father, next time we come we will take you instead,’” the younger Mr. Korucu said.

It isn’t just Gulenists. Can Dundar, who resigned last month as editor of Cumhuriyet, a newspaper aligned with the current secular opposition, said Tuesday his wife’s passport was confiscated without explanation earlier this month as she prepared to fly to Europe. Dundar left the country after he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison after being convicted of revealing state secrets in a politically charged trial.

Officials declined to discuss the cases.

Andrew Finkel, a longtime foreign correspondent based in Turkey and one-time Today’s Zaman columnist, was fired in 2011 after criticizing its tepid support of free speech after police arrested the author of a book critical of Mr. Gulen.

He argues that Turks must stand up for free speech, even among those with unpopular views or who refused to stand up for colleagues.

“Being unlikeable isn't a crime,” said Mr. Finkel, a co-founder of P24, a press freedom group. Targeting pro-Kurdish papers is a sign that “this isn't just a move against Gulenists, but an attempt to drain the swamp of potential foes.”

Mr. Kenes says he should have been more outspoken in defense of fellow journalists when the government started targeting its critics more than a decade ago.

“Frankly, we did not realize Mr. Erdogan’s real intentions,” said Mr. Kenes, who was convicted last year of insulting the president onTwitter and given a 21-month suspended prison sentence. “When I look at my history, I criticize myself for not showing more sympathy for their cases.”

Write to Dion Nissenbaum at dion.nissenbaum@wsj.com

 

[OguzSenturk]

>Free Media
>Zaman

Zaman was the one who attacked Kemalists and removed Kemalists from Army and Universities. Sorry dude, we may be opposition of AKP but we will never forget who attacked us in first place. Fethollah and it's terror organisation is the biggest threat to Secular Kemalist Republic.

 

[My-Analogous]

How would CPEC help Turkey?

So it can be CPITEC(China, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey economic corridor)

If Turkey wants to access the CAR nations then it could go through Iran, so i still don't get how CPEC would help Turkey

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Currently in projects activities and later in connectivity

 

[The Eagle]

Welcome brothers as always.... Soon Turkey in Shanghai Corporation.....

China-Pakistan-Turkey-Russia and more to join...

 

[Solomon2]

Turkish authorities fire over 2,800 judges, prosecutors as anti-Gülen moves continue...The sacked judges included Rüstem Eryılmaz, the former head of the case into the killing of Armenian-origin journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 -

Footage reveals further evidence in Dink probe against arrested gendarmerie officers
ISTANBUL

Footage published by a Turkish broadcaster appears to show that six former gendarmerie intelligence officers who are currently being tried over links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) were complicit in the 2007 assassination of journalist Hrant Dink. In the images published by A Haber, they can be seen near the scene at the time of the murder of the Armenian-origin Turkish journalist in 2007.

In the footage, unearthed as part of a probe trying former gendarmerie officials suspected of having links to FETÖ and being involved in the July 15 coup attempt, investigators observed that six gendarmerie intelligence officers currently under arrest were present close to the scene when Dink’s murder took place on the afternoon of Jan. 19, 2007, strengthening the suspicion that they were in close contact with the assailant of the murder, Ogün Samast.

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The prosecutor in the case has accused the Fetullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) of staging the assassination.

In his demand for the arrest of the suspects, Dink probe prosecutor Gökalp Kökçü said it would be “far from a legal definition” to identify the acts of the suspects as mere membership or leadership in an armed terrorist organization in light of the failed July 15 coup attempt, which has been blamed on FETÖ. Kökçü claimed that the Dink murder was the “first bullet fired” on the road to the coup.

Dink, 52, was shot dead with two bullets to the head in broad daylight outside the offices of Agos in central Istanbul.

Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.

But the case grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that security forces had been aware of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

Relatives and followers of the case have long claimed government officials, police, military personnel and members of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) played a role in Dink’s murder by neglecting their duty to protect the journalist.

Turkey’s top court in July 2014 ruled that the investigation into the killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of the police officials.

In January 2016, Supreme Court of Appeals ruled to tie the main case into Dink’s murder and prosecution into the public officers’ negligence to prevent the killing of Dink. Indictments for 26 people are now included in the merged case.

September/06/2016

 

[OguzSenturk]

Pan-Armenian Racist Hrant Dink :"There is enough noble Armenian blood in the veins of that Armenia to be established in those places where Poisoned Turkish blood to be discharged"

He demanded for a Genocide on Turks to create "Armenia with Holy armenian Blood", but instead our brave citizen Ogün Samast removed that Fascist Hrant Dink, a NAZI wannabe

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

The opening of the Hamidiye University in Beijing (1901)

In 1901, Sultan Abdülhamid sent one of his advisors, Enver Pasha, along with numerous Islamic scholars, to China. When they arrived in Shanghai, they were warmly greeted by the Chinese authorities, and especially so by the local Chinese Muslims, who had lived in China for centuries. Sultan Abdülhamid later helped establish a Muslim university in Beijing, called the Peking (Beijing) Hamidiye University.

Turkish participation to CPEC is no surprise - it's a rational outcome..

How would CPEC help Turkey?

How will it not???

If Turkey wants to access the CAR nations then it could go through Iran, so i still don't get how CPEC would help Turkey

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Time will tell...

So it can be CPITEC(China, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey economic corridor)



Currently in projects activities and later in connectivity

You'll be needing to keep on adding letters till the alphabet gives up. Best of wishes..

Unbelabable, few People on this forum bluntly speak up and do not look at the geostratgic location of Gawadar, I wasn't talking about you I was talking about some other People on this forum, but as you have asked?


Well than Turkey certainly can setup it's manufacturing plant in Gawadar to deliver its good to rest of the Asia Africa and middle east China & Russia. Turkey is already in talks with Iran over road access to Pakistan for its goods to be delivered to and from Gawadar. Every Country in the world can take benefits from Gawadar only one needs a brain to figure it out, how?

"Most of the people believe in conjectures, not in the TRUTH" - Kuran-i Kerim...

 

[X-2.]

How would CPEC help Turkey?

Look at the map.. gawader will facilitate all of them as hub as Dubai do to states around him.. even oman is in front of Indian and Persian gulf but huge shipping he receive through Dubai port

 

[X-2.]

China - Pakistan - Iran - Azerbaijian - Russia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Syria - Turkey and beyond

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq - Saudi Arabia

China - Pakistan - Iran - Iraq -Jordan - Israel - Egypt and beyond

Well, talking about connectivity, the possibilities provided by CPEC are infinite.

China PAk oman
Oman UAE
Oman Saudis
Oman uae Saudis and rest

 

[Mrc]

If offered iran will jump on a project that brings them closer to china and annoys america