Mehmet Yılmaz

US just replied Erdoğan again. Turkey doing Ballet internationally but with the last legal package more authoritarian domestically…

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Turkey’s Curious Ballet  NYT > Turkey Turkey is to allow Iraqi Kurds cross into Syria to fight Islamic State. US airdrops to Kobane were not wrong, Washington says after Erdoğan criticism Washington does not think the US airdrop of weapons to the Syrian border town of Kobane was wrong, Marie Harf has said PYD not terrorist under US … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: “reasonable doubt” reason to be briefly detained for a journalist or free hugging is sth to be fined…

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 Judicial bill aims at silencing social media, daily says Today’s Zaman Erkan Saka, a professor of communications at Bilgi University, believes the package may well lead to the violation of democratic rights. “The package clearly favors law and order at the expense of freedoms,” he told Today’s Zaman. The draft bill, while Turkish journalist briefly detained … Read more