EFD Rights Watch: Arbitrariness routinized as Grup Yorum concert cancelled… As Turkey becomes the 2nd heavily policed country…

Grup Yorum interdit de séjour à Harbiye (Istanbul) Heureusement qu’il n’était pas question de liberté d’expression dans le” paquet démocratique” présenté le 30 septembre dernier par  Recep Tayyip Erdogan, le chef du gouvernement AKP. Sinon on aurait pu penser que la “grande municipalité” d’Istanbul avait loupé l’appel ou pire était entrée en dissidence. Most Heavily Policed: … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Digital analysis of Istanbul on #MayDay by ANONYMOUS (@Crypt0nymous) and more…

Digital analysis of Istanbul on #MayDay This article intends to draw attention to the unwarranted and disproportionate violence conducted by the police. Additionally to clarify how the Turkish Government is determined to silence the public. Teargas and Water Cannons for Istanbul’s Labor Day Protesters from Global Voices Online by Stratos Moraitis Teargas enveloped Istanbul as … Read more

by the way, Mehmet Ağar gets 5 years…

One of the most arrogant and untouchable members of the old Turkish Deep State gets a short but symbolically important sentence a few days ago… He was a police chief under whose administrations many extrajudicial killings had occured… Five-Year Sentence for Susurluk Defendant Ağar Former Chief of Police Ağar was sentenced to imprisonment of five … Read more