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IN DENTENTION Turkey arrests 62 schoolchildren for TREASON following failed military coup
The Sun ^ | July 23, 2016 | by Guy Birchall

Posted on 07/24/2016 7:08:50 PM PDT by Fitzy_888

Before the coup attempt last week, the pupils, aged between 14 and 17, were made to dress up in camouflage and were handed guns with empty magazines, according to their lawyers.

The children have been taken to prison and not allowed to speak to their parents as they were accused of treason against the Turkish State.

The mum of a 15-year-old boy caught up in the arrest, Emre, while waiting for news outside Istanbul’s Maltepe Prison said: “Our child has never held a gun before.

“They were used, they were forced to do this.”

The incarcerated kids families and lawyers fear their sons could be denied a fair trial due to mass purges in Turkey’s judiciary and anti coup protesters hunger for vengeance.

Emre’s terrified mother said the boys were subjected to a mass preliminary hearing in just one crowded courtroom which their families were barred from entering.

She added: “They got just two to three minutes to testify.”

Outside the prison, the dad of a locked up 14-year-old student says he has not been allowed to speak to his boy since last Friday when they were both at the school’s “cocktail party”.

He said: “Our son went to this school because he loved Atatürk and it was his decision to enrol.

“We have nothing to do with Gülen’s organisation.

“We have no sympathy for them.”

Interrupting his wife added: “They are just children.

“They are innocent.

“The state needs to separate the guilty ones from the innocent ones.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: erdogan; erdogancountercoup; turkey

1 posted on 07/24/2016 7:08:50 PM PDT by Fitzy_888
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To: Fitzy_888

Our allies.


2 posted on 07/24/2016 7:10:08 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Fitzy_888

their parents aren’t likely to get too frisky with their kids in prison.


3 posted on 07/24/2016 7:10:45 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Fitzy_888
Not much to say but...


4 posted on 07/24/2016 7:12:03 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: TigerClaws

We may end up learning it was Erdogan all along that created this because he seemed amazingly prepared for the purge that followed, but it will be too late.


5 posted on 07/24/2016 7:12:19 PM PDT by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: Fitzy_888

islamic law allows for this type of child abuse. MoHamHead made it so. FUislam.


6 posted on 07/24/2016 7:16:01 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Fitzy_888

yEAH, THEY WERE ARMED WITH SPIT WAD TUBES


7 posted on 07/24/2016 7:18:33 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Fitzy_888

Never heard of this Gulen, I wonder if he is the same guy who made the you-tube for Benghazi.

Seriously, arresting children for an army coup. What a demented twerp this Erdogan.


8 posted on 07/24/2016 7:26:07 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: soycd

I’m sad to say that my first thought was that these kids were selected as toys for Erdogan and his evil pals. Maybe I’m becoming too jaded after all this mudslime nonsense.


9 posted on 07/24/2016 9:57:50 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: volunbeer

Reichstagg Fire.


10 posted on 07/24/2016 10:37:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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