Posted on 10/30/2016 6:59:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The extent of the crackdown has worried rights groups and many of Turkey's Western allies, who fear Erdogan is using the emergency rule to eradicate dissent. The government says the actions are justified given the threat to the state posed by the coup attempt, in which more than 240 people died.
The executive decrees have ordered the closure of 15 more newspapers, wires and magazines, which report from the largely Kurdish southeast, bringing the total number of media outlets and publishers closed since July to nearly 160.
Universities have also been stripped of their ability to elect their own rectors according to the decrees. Erdogan will from now on directly appoint the rectors from the candidates nominated by the High Educational Board (YOK).
Lale Karabiyik, another CHP lawmaker, said the move was a clear misuse of the emergency rule decrees and described it as a coup d'etat on higher education. Pro-Kurdish opposition said the decrees were used as tools to establish a 'one-man regime'.
The government extended the state of emergency imposed after the coup attempt for three months until mid-January. Erdogan said the authorities needed more time to wipe out the threat posed by Gulen's network as well as Kurdish militants who have waged a 32-year insurgency.
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Soon they’ll be killing anyone who wears glasses.
These are Obama’s Islamist allies.
People shouldn’t complain so much about Erdogan. There’s nothing wrong with him that 150gr or so wouldn’t cure.
It is very distressing what has happened to Turkey. It has until recently been the most sane and tolerant of the Muslim countries. But not anymore with Erdogan in power. If Hillary is elected, what will she do to the deplorables? What will she do to the non-MSM? What will happen to radio and the Internet? She frequently rails against talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, Fox, and any media outside of her lapdog Clinton News Network, MSNBC, and the others in the MSM. She thinks it is unfair that there is any opposing viewpoint. And she will no doubt do her best to eliminate it. And I expect that she will be successful because the libs in our country, the MSM, the leftists in academia, and the Democrat congressmen will go along with it while our emasculated republican politicians back down from a fight as they almost always do. Our situation in this country is not really far removed from what is happening in Turkey if she gains control.
Fyi
It wasn’t a failed coup. It was a successful purge. Kristallnacht redux.
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