Already facing international criticism for its arrest of British reporters yesterday, Turkey continued its media crackdown with a raid against Koza-Ipek, a major media company in the capital of Ankara. The government said the raid was part of a “terrorist investigation.”
State media reported that the raid was targeting 23 companies in the Koza-Ipek Group who they are accusing of “giving financial support” to the Fetullahist movement, and conducting “propaganda” against the government. The raids came after Koza-Ipek papers published new details about cross-border weapons transfers by the Erdogan government into Syria, including to ISIS.
The allegations aren’t new. Back in May a series of videos and still images were released showing Turkish state intelligence agents participating in arms smuggling at the ISIS border. The prosecutors who uncovered the report were similarly detained as “terrorists.”
Koza-Ipek is seen by the government as particularly favorable to Fethullah Gulen. Gulen is an imam who lives in exile in Pennsylvania, and an advocate of a more tolerant form of Sunni Islam. He is also harshly critical of corruption in government, which has set him at odds with Erdogan and led to allegations of terrorism.
Yesterday’s arrests targeted Vice News reporters, who were covering the Turkish war against the Kurdish PKK. They too are facing terror charges, which their lawyer says is an attempt to block media coverage of the war.
The terrorists are not hiding in news agencies offices nor under the table of journalists, but they can hid whil Erdogan regime provide them hiding places in Ankara, Istanbul and every other city that are close to Syrian border.
From George W. Bush to Erdogan regime they all are afraid of the truth no matter from who and by whom or from where, if a government is not hiding something, if a government is people government and respected by its people, if a government obligations are about democracy and have a respect for democratic values and respect the principals, such government would not be engaged in harboring terrorists nor will be engaged in producing terrorism, nor it will see the news agencies as its enemy, in the other hand Erdogan regime and his principles are based on Erdogan "democracy" not people's democracy, so when such regime become weak they show their true face and intentions which are either police states, militarizing the society and becoming a paranoid systems where everything and everyone are their enemies.
I would take all of these reports about Erdogan-the-tyrant, as many of them are cooked in our neocon kitchens. For example, it is absolute rubbish that Turkey has something to do with ISIS. That is a misdirection, with the purpose of diverting attention from where ISIS came from, who is funding it, and more importantly, who is so neatly protecting them from any real harm. With all the "war on ISIS" for one year there has not been ONE hit on their ammunition and weapons storages, nor means of transportation. Even though it would be rather easy given the geography with precious little room to hide. It is INCONCEIVABLE that anyone could just march to Palmyra and destroy it without being spotted from the air. This war on ISIS seems fake as a three dollar bill. The fury and the rage against Turkey comes from different quarters, and it has much to do with Turkey being member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, getting economic and financial links with Asia, and freeing itself up from IMF bondage. Ditto economic development. The rage against Turkey goes back to jailing of faithful globalist generals that were always in charge to kill any civilian government officials that slipped control. Fetullah Gulen is ANYTHING but a "moderate" Sunni cleric! He is the extended arm of Saudi Wahhabism. He funded extremists and trained them in Turkey, who in Bosnia committed some of the worst atrocities of the war. Typically of our neocon violin strings orchestra, we pointed fingers at their victims, the Serbs — even though Serb heads were those used by these nice "moderate" Fetullah pulens to play soccer with. He (with Saudi money, of course) funded Chechnya terrorism, and more. But his money is funding MANY special projects to undermine Erdogan. Putting together fake videos is one of them. Buying prosecutors, media, and in some cases police — he (and those behind him) are hell bent on causing chaos in Turkey. Look at the Uyghur situation. He bribed some Turkish embassy officials in Asia, some in Thailand to issue passports to Uyghur individuals. And it is from Turkey that the terrorism came to Thailand that killed dozens. Police found the link, fake passports, etc. Funds also go into agitating Crimean Tatars — something Turkey does not support. And how does this "moderate" fellow earn his money? Until some citizens got wind of this, he ran an educational foundation that got money from federal government when some "failing' schools were privatized. He in fact had income from more then 100 such schools across US! But that was probably just a cover to launder other money. Today, Croatia as well as Ukraine are shipping arms to ISIS. Both of them are US protectorates, to allow for shipping of older weaponry that cannot be traced to Saudi Arabia or US. Turkey is under all sorts of pressure, and I am certain that — in revenge for US and Europeans lying that they will open a safe zone in Syria for placement of refugees, they have started shipments of tens of thousands ISIS victims from Turkish refugee camps towards EU. IT IS DETAILS THAT MATTER — so, if we are not on the top of them, neocons can sell us ANYTHING. They do not care how long the lies last — for as long as they last long enough to be transmitted by media far and wide. Oh, my. Are we this stupid, or they are really smart?
PKk is a Marxist terrorist organization, and is so declared by the US. YPG is a rebranding of PKK in Syria. The US is openly aiding YPG and possibly PKK with military training, arms, volunteers, propaganda and most importantly the USAF. Is there a clearer example of providing material support to a terrorist organization? Should not the Senate investigate this and find out who in the administration or the Pentagon is responsible for this support to a terrorist organization and how PKK fighters are rebranded as YPG. Otherwise imprisoning individuals for 30 plus years for $ 5.00 socks or shoes that could possibly have ended up with suspected terrorist is scandalous and complete subversion of justice and law.