Posted on 07/27/2018 6:04:05 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
A Turkish court has ruled to ban a book titled “Kurdistan Tarihi” (The History of Kurdistan), whose first edition was confiscated by the State Security Court (DGM) in 2001 and pulled off the shelves.
“The History of Kurdistan,” a Soviet academic volume published in Turkish by Avesta Publishing, was initially banned by the Ayvalık Penal Court of Peace and subsequently banned in 2001 by the İstanbul DGM. The publishing house was also given a fine and sentence by the same court. However, thanks to legal challenges, the ban was overturned.
Edited by M.S. Lazarev and Ş.X. Mıhoyan and translated from Russian into Turkish by İbrahim Kale, the first edition of “Kurdistan Tarihi” was published in Turkey in 2001.
“We’re talking about a book that has been on the shelves for about 20 years. We received no notification of any investigation. We learnt that the book had been banned from two police who came here,” Avesta Publishing owner Abdullah Keskin said.
“The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office has asked us for information on the ban. Why does it want that information? There is information they are requesting from us rather than the prosecutors or the courts, as if they are saying, ‘We don’t know why we banned it, either’.”
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But he has predecessors, who practiced the same foul ignorance and the brutality that goes with it..
The democrats and other leftists are green with envy.
Erdogan came to power by using Kurdish support, and has completely betrayed them, since it suited his personal ambition.
They will not forget betrayal. You can take that one to the bank.
Payback will eventually come. It will not be pretty.
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