Coup In Turkey

TURKEY: Deputy PM says country to suspend European Convention on Human Rights for a while - @CNNTURK_ENG

Aykan Erdemir ‏@aykan_erdemir 47m47 minutes ago

#Turkey's leading human rights lawyer & minority rights advocate #OrhanKemalCengiz is arrested.
@orkece
 
interesting look at this..

Brasco_Aad Retweeted
AFP news agency ‏@AFP 5m5 minutes ago

#BREAKING Greek court gives suspended sentence to Turkish officers who fled coup
 
İstanbul - BIA News Desk
21 July 2016, Thursday 14:59
http://bianet.org/english/politics/1...e-of-emergency
The measures and bans during the state of emergency are regulated
in article 9, 10, and 11 of the State of Emergency Act.

The measures to be taken and bans to be imposed are regulated in
Article 9 for “declaration of state of emergency due to natural disasters
and epidemics”, in Article 10 for “declaration of state of emergency
due to major economic crisis” and in Article 11 for “declaration of state
of emergency due to acts of violence”.

In case of declaration of state of emergency in accordance with Article 11,
also measures and bans regulated in Article 9 can be applied in addition
to this article.

The measures and bans regulated in Article 11

a) Restricting or banning going out to street

b) Banning people’s wandering or rallying, vehicles’ moving at
certain times and places

c) Searching people’s body, vehicles, properties and seizing
the ones that could be counted crime object or evidence

d) Imposing obligation for residents and visitors of regions
where state of emergency has been declared to carry ID

e) Banning printing, copying, publishing and distribution of newspaper,
magazine, book, leaflet and show bill; stipulating permission or banning
entry of those which were published and copied outside the state of
emergency declared region to the region; pulling book, magazine,
newspaper, leaflet and similar printed matters whose publication
is illegal off the shelves

f) Examining all sorts of writing, image, film, disc, vocal and visual tapes
and all sorts of vocal publication, registering or banning them if necessary

g) Having institutions that belong to individual or public and banks take
special protection measures or ask them to increase them to ensure their
internal security.

h) Inspecting all sorts of plays and movies, stop or ban them if necessary

I) Banning carrying or transportation of all sorts of gun and bullet
even if they are registered

j) Stipulating permission or banning possessing, preparing, making or
transporting all sorts of ammunition, bomb, explosive, radioactive matter
or related matter

k) Banning persons or groups giving the impression that they could harm
public order and ruining public trust from entering, exiting a region as well
as entering to or settling in an area within this region.

l) Regulating, registering and banning entry to and exit from areas where
facilities and entities are located which are considered necessary to be
considered.

m) Banning, postponing, requiring permission for assemblies or protest
marches to be held in closed and open areas determining, assigning
and appointing the location and time of assemblies and protest marches
as well as monitoring and guarding and if necessary dispersing all
assemblies subjected to permission

n) In cases except the situations in which the will of the employee exists,
situations contradicting with ethics and rules of goodwill, as well as health
conditions, cases of regular pension and termination of contract of service
due to end of time limit or its annulment, requiring permission for or
postponing lay-offs provided that the situation of the employer is taken
into account and the practice does not last longer than three months.

o) Halting foundation activities provided taking a resolution for each
foundation separately not being longer than three months


In addition to the measures provided in Article 11, Article 9 states
that following measures and bans can be applied:
The measures and bans regulated in Article 9

a) Banning settlement in certain areas of the region, evacuating,
displacing and restricting entry to and exit from certain settlement areas,

b) Temporarily suspending education in all official and private education
and training institutions, temporarily or permanently closing down student
dorms

c) Inspecting entertainment venues such as clubs, restaurants, pubs,
taverns, discotheque, bars, movie theaters, theaters and game arcades
as well as rest areas such as hotels, motels, camps and holiday villages;
determining their opening and closing hours; restricting, if necessary
closing and using these places in accordance with the requirements
of state of emergency

d) Restricting or recalling annual leave of personnel in charge of carrying
out services of state of emergency in the region

e) Using or if necessary temporarily seizing all communication tools
and equipments in the region

f) Burning down the buildings that pose danger; destroying the movable
and immovable properties determined as threat to health, insanitary
foodstuff and crops,

g) Controlling, limiting or banning certain foodstuff if required, taking
animal and animal feed and animal products inside and outside the region

h) Regulating the distribution of necessary supply of provisions

i) Taking precautions as to production, sale, distribution,
storage and trade of foodstuff and wares required
for people’s nutrition, heating, lighting, all sorts of fuel,
medicine used in protecting health and in treatment,
chemical matter, tools and other things, properties
and objects used in construction, industry, transportation
and agriculture, purchasing, sale, distribution, storing.

Taking over these places if required, controlling them
and closing down the businesses, which avert to sell
these products, hide them, price them out of market,
halt or slow down their production, if it is not of vital

importance for its neighborhood by taking into account
of the form and quality of the action realized.

j) Taking precautions as to land, sea and aerial traffic layout, registering or
banning the entrance and exits of the transportation vehicles to the region.
 
No power for Incirlik

07/21/2016
Mathis Feldhoff
https://translate.google.com/transla...-text=&act=url
(Google Translate)
The failed coup attempt and the subsequent purge threaten the deployment
of the Bundeswehr in the Turkish airbase in Incirlik. The state of emergency
now leads to an unpredictable situation. How many soldiers are safe?

It is a difficult secured entrance, access to the air base in Incirlik.
Massive concrete blocks have to be bypassed, the duty soldiers are
equipped with assault rifles. Incoming vehicles are searched.
The security measures have always been particularly high - especially
since the anti-IS coalition uses the airfield as a springboard for their
operations in northern Iraq and Syria.

With the failed coup attempt and the imposed since Wednesday a state
of emergency security precautions have been tightened again.
"Somewhat restricted the freedom of movement on the grounds and
access to shopping and sports facilities," says Jens Flosdorff, spokesman
for Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) as early as Monday.
Has always been the possibility for the German soldiers, to move also
outside the camp, limited.

For five days without power

What should sound like a sedative, is not quite so straightforward on site.
Since the weekend, the entire air base is cut off from the normal power
supply. The today confirmed a spokesman for the Bundeswehr Operations
Command. US military and army would powered by emergency generators
brought. "The flight operations but was not at risk," the spokesman said.

Around 250 German soldiers are currently stationed in Incirlik.

On Monday, the reconnaissance Tornados were restarted their operations
over northern Iraq and Syria. And the Air Force Airbus, which is used in
Incirlik as a refueling aircraft, flew back.

At coup weekend flight operations had been temporarily suspended.
The Bundeswehr supported with their tornadoes educating the anti-IS
coalition. High-resolution photos that are taken with the Air Force jets,
serve as a more accurate target selection. Especially, in order to avoid
unintended destruction, so the argument of Defense.

Self-censorship in the communications
In Berlin they tried to demonstrate as much normalcy. They had last
weekend - as elsewhere - "regular contact with the German contingent
in Incirlik" had emphasized ministry spokesman Flosdorff.

The over-emphasis on the "normality" nebulized but aware of the mood
in the German contingent. The wave of arrests, the Erdogan currently
all supposed opponents can be removed from key positions, leaves traces
at the soldiers. They are "more restrained in their communication,"
reads from Bundeswehr circles.

The order "will now be charged in addition to the internal situation
of Turkey". Long since the soldiers had begun to undergo their
communications home "a kind of self-censorship".

The irrational displays of Turkish President to critics at home and abroad
to give them probably right. That the Turkish air base Incirlik for days
plays an important role in the failed coup attempt, amplifies the situation.

The Turkish newspaper "Hürriyet" reported on searches based. The Turkish
commander to have been arrested. This would have the German soldiers
but "everything noticed more indirect," the Defense Ministry spokesman.

Bundestag will in October to Incirlik
The failed visit efforts of MPs left their mark at the soldiers. None of them,
it is said, would give rise to a diplomatic crisis with an unguarded expression.

How hard the reaction of the Turkish side may fail to show the futile efforts
of the Bundestag Defense Committee order a troop visit the airbase.

The government in Ankara had this before, with regard to the Armenian
resolution by Parliament, rejected. Also interventions Chancellor and
the Minister of Defence were unsuccessful.

Now the MPs want early October again make a start, to travel to Incirlik.
Previously unaccompanied from the Ministry. Whether in Turkey at all
is still possible in times of martial law, will then be shown.
 
the msm black out of the news from turkey is very very telling..
 
Kgthetweet ‏@Kgthetweet 23m
Turkey totally gone paranoid:
Rumours of second coup attempt,
thousands blocking military garrisons in Ankara & Istanbul now.



Ankaralı Jan ‏@06JAnk 27m
Judging by reports of police radio,
something's up again in Ankara. Everyone on alert.



Ankaralı Jan ‏@06JAnk 24m
Ankara governorate issues denial of rumours
of military action in Etimesgut


Ankaralı Jan ‏@06JAnk 26m
Editor of Islamist daily Akit
tells people to arm themselves
and come onto the streets


Ankaralı Jan ‏@06JAnk 20m
This alert makes me wonder if there's a complete feedback loop:
could panic on Twitter alert police,
meaning journos spread more panic?


Mark Bentley ‏@MarkABentley 26m
More scaremongering?
Turkey EU Minister says another coup attempt is being discussed
 
ANALYSIS

Incirlik is leverage in Turkey extradition demand


By John Vandiver and Slobodan Lekic
Stars and Stripes
Published: July 21, 2016
http://www.stripes.com/news/incirlik...emand-1.420290Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base, which plays a key role in the U.S. air war
against the Islamic State, could become a bargaining chip as Turkey seeks
to pressure the U.S. to extradite a cleric accused of orchestrating a failed
coup attempt.

“This is a very bad moment in the fight against ISIS, unfortunately,”
said retired Adm. James Stavridis, who commanded U.S. and NATO forces
in Europe until 2013. He used an acronym for the Islamic State group.
“A great deal of (the U.S.-led coalition’s) military effort is moving out
of bases in southern Turkey.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded the U.S.
extradite Fethullah Gulen, a moderate Muslim cleric and accused
mastermind of Friday’s coup attempt. Gulen has lived for years in rural
Pennsylvania but has a strong following in Turkey, including among
the army and police.

Erdogan has made no secret about his disdain for the cleric, his former
ally until the two fell out in 2013 over corruption allegations.
The Turkish president believed the allegations were orchestrated by Gulen
as a smokescreen for attacks against his supporters.

Now, the U.S. will be forced to weigh the evidence and weigh the
consequences of rejecting Erdogan’s demand.

“Incirlik’s future and the access of the U.S. to the base,
may eventually turn into bargaining chips,” said F. Doruk
Ergun, a security analyst at the Center for Economics
and Foreign Policy Studies in Istanbul.

And Erdogan may have the stronger hand, analysts said.

“If Turkey can present evidence (Gulen was involved) and he is not
turned over, there will be enormous backlash,” said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli,
director of the George Marshall Fund’s office in Ankara.

“I think our Western allies don’t understand the psychology right now
in Turkey,” Unluhisarcikli said. “They might think there is anger from
just Erdogan’s supporters, but it is much more than that.

Turkey’s parliament was bombed, Turkish civilians were shot and
(the coup attempt) is regarded as a crime against humanity.
That is how it is perceived here.”

The United States has publicly backed the Erdogan government as
it reasserts control, but has cautioned Turkey to abide by the rule of law.

The government has rounded up more than 6,000 Turkish military
personnel, including some of the military’s most senior leaders, and fired
judges suspected of backing the coup.

On Wednesday, Turkey placed a travel ban on the country’s academics
and ordered the firing of tens of thousands of teachers.

Erdogan has said “outside powers” may have been involved in the coup
attempt. But in an interview with Al-Jazeera, Erdogan said relations
between Turkey and the U.S. “are based on interests, not feelings.
We are strategic partners.”

However, pro-government media outlets have accused the U.S.
of direct involvement in the coup attempt.

“President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on the hit list of an organization
protected and controlled by the U.S.,” said a commentary in Istanbul’s
daily Yeni Safak which reflects the views of Ergodan’s political party.
“The U.S. administration tried to kill Erdogan.”

Bosko Jaksic, a Serbian foreign policy analyst who has followed events
in Turkey for decades, said Erdogan would now focus on consolidating
his power, and that support for the U.S.-led coalition targeting Islamic
State militants in neighboring Syria and Iraq would not be a high priority.

“Erdogan is demonstrating to the Americans that he will no longer
do their bidding,” Jaksic said. “The latent showdown between Washington
and Ankara will become public if the Obama administration balks on
extraditing Gulen.”

Turkey first denied a U.S. request to use Incirlik at the start of the
air campaign against the Islamic State in 2014, before relenting in
the late summer of 2015. Turkey also refused use of Incirlik during
the Iraq War in 2003. Flight times to targets in Iraq and Syria are much
shorter from Incirlik, located about 80 miles from the border, than from
aircraft carriers or bases in and around the Persian Gulf.

Even if the U.S. is allowed to continue flying sorties out of Incirlik,
there are concerns that Turkey will lose focus on the war against
the Islamic State as it deals with internal strife, making it a less reliable
partner in the fight.

“The Turkish military itself will be consumed with investigations,
retribution, arrests; they will lose their effectiveness as a fighting force,”
Stavridis said. “One of the real winners here will be the so-called
Islamic State.”

Not all of Turkey’s interests align with the U.S., however.

While the U.S. sees the Islamic State group as the prime security
concern, Turkey’s outlook is more complicated. Ankara views U.S.-backed
Kurdish forces as a threat to Turkish sovereignty, fearing Kurds in Syria
and Iraq could secure territory as part of a push for an autonomous state
that could incorporate Kurdish regions in Turkey.

For now, Turkey is fixated on getting its “house in order” in the wake
of the attempted coup, said Ergun.

Since coming to power in 2002, Erdogan has sought to reduce the
power of the military, which has played an outsize role in the country
since the founding of the Turkish state in 1923.

vandiver.john@stripes.com
lekic.slobodan@stripes.com
shōu xìnyòngkă ma?
 
the EU dont mince words,
erdogon is in trouble trouble now....(rolls eyes)

Turkey attempted coup: EU says measures 'unacceptable'


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36861154

The European Union says Turkey's measures against the education system, the judiciary and the media following the failed coup are "unacceptable".
In a statement, High Representative Federica Mogherini and Commissioner Johannes Hahn said they were "concerned" by Turkey's decision to declare a state of emergency.
The move gives Turkey's leaders "far reaching powers to govern by decree".
Thousands of people have been sacked or arrested following the failed coup.


The two top EU officials urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to respect the rule of law, rights and freedoms.
 
hoichi said:
TURKEY: Deputy PM says country to suspend European Convention on Human Rights for a while - @CNNTURK_ENG

Aykan Erdemir ‏@aykan_erdemir 47m47 minutes ago

#Turkey's leading human rights lawyer & minority rights advocate #OrhanKemalCengiz is arrested.
@orkece
Click to expand...

If a nation starts getting rid of anyone that opposes it and then goes after human rights advocates and ending human rights conventions really shows what direction they are going... sad to see Turkey go this route.
 
Michael Horowitz ‏@michaelh992 56m56 minutes ago

Turk Telekom fired 198 of its employees over alleged ties to Gulen #Turkey
 
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/COLUMN-ONE-Turkey-Roger-over-and-out-462082

turky the ticking time bomb..


Turkey – Roger Out
Why NATO has a ticking time bomb on its hands.
July 22, 2016
Caroline Glick

Originally published by the Jerusalem Post.

On Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted that the purge of thousands in the Turkish military – including a third of the serving generals – did not weaken the military.

Stoltenberg told Reuters, “Turkey has a large armed force, professional armed forces and... I am certain they will continue as a committed and strong NATO ally.”

It would be interesting to know whether the 1,500 US soldiers who have been locked down at Incirlik Air Base along with several hundred soldiers from other NATO countries since the failed coup Friday night would agree with him.

Following the failed coup, the Erdogan regime cut off the base’s external electricity supply and temporarily suspended all flights from the base.

The base commander Gen. Bekir Ercan Van and 11 other service members from the base and a police officer were placed under arrest.

Incirlik is the center of NATO air operations against Islamic State in Syria. It also reportedly houses 50 nuclear warheads. The atomic bombs belong to the US. They deployed to Turkey – under US control – as a relic of the Cold War.

It took US President Barack Obama two years of pleading to convince Turkish President Recep Erdogan to allow NATO forces to use the base at Incirlik. It was only after the Kurdish political party secured unprecedented gains in Turkey’s parliamentary elections last year, and Tayyip Erdogan decided to expand his operations against the Kurds of Iraq and Syria to dampen domestic support for the Kurds, that he agreed to allow NATO forces to use the base.

His condition was that the US support his war against the Kurds – the most effective ground force in the war against Islamic State.

Stoltenberg’s statement of support for Turkey is particularly troubling because Erdogan’s post-coup behavior makes it impossible to continue to sweep his hostility under the rug.

For nearly 14 years, since his AK Party first won the national elections in late 2002, Erdogan and his followers have made clear that they are ideologically – and therefore permanently – hostile to the West. And for nearly 14 years, Western leaders have pretended this reality under the rug.

Just weeks after AKP’s first electoral triumph, the Turkish parliament shocked Washington when it voted to reject the US’s request to deploy Iraq invasion forces along the Turkish border with Iraq. Turkey’s refusal to permit US operations from its territory are a big reason the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was able to organize.

It took the US some two months to take over northern Iraq. By that time, the Ba’athists had organized the paramilitary militias that later morphed into al-Qaida in Iraq and then, following the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, Islamic State.

Ever since then, Erdogan has paid lip service, and even assisted NATO and the EU from time to time, when it served his momentary interests to do so. But the consistent trend of his behavior has been negative.

Since taking power, Erdogan has galvanized the organs of state propaganda – from the media to the entertainment industry to the book world – to indoctrinate the citizens of Turkey to hate Jews and Americans and to view terrorists supportively.

rest at link
 
how friends treat their friends it seems..

all back to normal now
hugs

latest


Incirlik Air Base:
Power Restored to Key U.S. Site After Coup

by Andy Eckardt, Courtney Kube and F. Brinley Bruton
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/tur...ter_feed_worldTurkey has restored power to an air base used by U.S. forces for anti-ISIS
strikes almost a week after it was cut following the failed coup,
the Defense Department announced Friday.

Commercial power was cut to Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey and the
airspace above it closed within hours of the July 15 attempted military
takeover. Turkish commanders at the site were later arrested and led away,
accused of allowing at least one tanker aircraft to refuel jets involved
in the thwarted mutiny.
U.S European Command ✔ @US_EUCOM
Commercial electric power now restored at #Incirlik Air Base Turkey.
American servicemembers have steady flow of hot food, water & fuel.
5:58 AM - 22 Jul 2016

The base, which is also rumored to hold U.S. nuclear weapons, relied on
generators after commercial power was interrupted.

"We will retain this capability should the power be interrupted again,"
said a statement from the U.S. European Command.

"Meanwhile, there is a steady flow of hot food, water, and fuel to support
our service members and civilians in Turkey."

Air conditioners, food storage and preparation, and other daily living
requirements on the base depend on power as much as the runway lighting
and air operations systems do.
 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/thousands-turkey-coup-prisoners-raped-8485304
Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners 'raped, starved and hogtied'
By Chris Hughes


Amnesty International says it has ‘credible evidence’ Turkish police are holding detainees, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture


Turkish troops imprisoned after the failed military coup are being raped, starved and left without water for days, it is claimed.

Many of the 10,000 detainees are locked up in horses’ stables and sports halls - some hogtied in horrific stress positions, according to human rights campaigners.

Amnesty International has called for immediate access to prisoners after the coup a week ago which sparked a brutal crackdown and a three-month state of emergency.

More than 200 died in the uprising which aimed to topple dictatorial President Recep Erdogan - and 1,500 were injured.

Amnesty says it has ‘credible evidence’ Turkish police are holding detainees in stress positions for up to 48 hours, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture, including rape.


John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe director, said: “Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week.


“Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has remained conspicuously silent on the abuse. “

Amnesty spoke to lawyers, doctors and a person on duty in a detention facility about the conditions in which detainees were being held.

They heard alarming accounts of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, particularly at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall, Ankara Baºkent sports hall and the riding club stables there.

Two lawyers in Ankara working on behalf of detainees told Amnesty International that detainees said they witnessed senior military officers in detention being raped with a truncheon or finger by police officers.

A person on duty at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall saw a detainee with severe wounds consistent with having been beaten, including a large swelling on his head.

The detainee could not stand up or focus his eyes and he eventually lost consciousness.


While in some cases detainees were afforded limited medical assistance, police refused to allow this detainee essential medical treatment despite his severe injuries.

The interviewee heard one police doctor on duty say: “Let him die. We will say he came to us dead.”

The same interviewee said 650-800 soldiers were being held in the Ankara police headquarters sports hall - 300 of them with signs of having been beaten.

Turkish police arrest 60 children for TREASON after they were made to dress in camouflage and hold guns


Some detainees had visible bruises, cuts, or broken bones.

Around 40 were so badly injured they could not walk.

Two were unable to stand.

One woman who was also detained in a separate facility there had bruising on her face and torso
 
Back
Top