Category Archives: Turkey

Group demands ‘male brothel’ in Turkey

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Hurrietnet daily:

?EFKAT-DER has filed a petition to ask for permission to open a brothel for women. DHA photo

?EFKAT-DER has filed a petition to ask for permission to open a brothel for women. DHA photo

The Turkish anti-poverty association, ?EFKAT-DER, filed a petition to Parliament on March 8 asking for permission to open a brothel for women that would employ males in protest of brothels where women are employed, daily Hürriyet reported yesterday. “If you cannot save women from the slavery [of brothels], then open a brothel where men are employed,” said the petition, which was also sent to the Interior Ministry and Family and Social Policies Ministry.

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Turkey: 17,000 new mosques built under Erdogan

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H/T Magic Martin

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ANSAmed) – ANKARA, FEBRUARY 19 – Some 17,000 new mosques have been built during Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 10 years of leadership, Milliyet reports.

In the same period the amount of public schools has remained at 32,000 while the number of mosques has jumped from 76,000 to 93,000. Turkey’s secular opposition has accused Erdogan of having a ”secret plan” to re-Islamisize the nation.

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Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy

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A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard (not in picture) at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street. REUTERS-Yavuz Ozden-Milliyet Daily Newspaper
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone (L, with white hair) speaks to media outside of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suicide bomber from a far-left group killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street. The attacker blew himself up inside U.S. property, Ankara Governor Alaaddin Yuksel said. The blast sent masonry spewing out of the wall and could be heard a mile away. REUTERS-Stringer
A wounded person is carried on a stretcher to an ambulance by firefighters and medics, after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street. Ankara Governor Alaaddin Yuksel said the attacker was inside U.S. property when the explosives were detonated. The blast sent masonry spewing out of the wall of the side entrance, but there did not appear to be any more significant structural damage. REUTERS-Stringer

1 of 3. A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard (not in picture) at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street.

Credit: Reuters/Yavuz Ozden/Milliyet Daily Newspaper

By Seltem Iyigun and Nick Tattersall

ISTANBUL | Sat Feb 2, 2013 1:24pm EST

(Reuters) – A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its “slave” carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor’s office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday.

Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard.

The DHKP-C, virulently anti-American and listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and Turkey, claimed responsibility in a statement on the internet in which it said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was a U.S. “puppet”.

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Bomber already convicted on previous terror related charges

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BREAKING: EXPLOSION OUTSIDE US EMBASSY IN ANKARA TURKEY

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POSSIBLE SUICIDE BOMBER

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us embassy turkey 1.2.2013

Waiting for reports to come in, here is the Beeb’s report.

UPDATE: Suicide Bombing at US embassy in Turkey Kills 2

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a guard at the entrance gate, officials said.
U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardione told reporters that a Turkish citizen was also wounded in the 1:15 p.m. blast in the Turkish capital.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but both Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey.

H/T: ESW

EXPLOSION OUTSIDE US EMBASSY IN ANKARA TURKEY 1.2.2013

Erdogan greenlights 1,300 police stations in ‘Ottoman style’

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ANSAmed) – ANKARA, JANUARY 22 – The Turkish government is set to build 1,300 ‘Ottoman and Seljuq style’ police stations across the country, according to local press reports.

Ankara’s National Police Department has confirmed that works are already underway on the new buildings which are inspired by university studies of police stations during the Seljuq and Ottoman dynasties over 1000 years ago. Turkey’s Premier Recap Erdogan, often referred to as ‘The Sultan’, is a great admirer of the Ottoman period.

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The government of Turkey, actually worse than Disney!

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I think most people are aware now that if anyone was to use Disney owned fictional characters without specific permission, whether it is on clothing or jewelry or even drawing your own cartoon with them you will hear from Disney’s lawyers at hypersonic speeds. And a good case can be made that this is OK actually. Disney either spent a ton of money and work developing and promoting these characters or buying them from the people/companies who did.

Turkey however, seems to have taken it upon itself to regulate how any and all religious characters in the (originally) Jewish and Christian pantheon are portrayed and have taken the Simpsons to court for defamation of religion.

This, is a much more serious matter than it sounds. This is part of the incremental process of forcing Islamic values on the world, much like the Egyptian judgment condemning 8 people, many of whom not even in Egypt, to death for blasphemy/defamation of religion. This was covered Dec 1 in our interview with Stephen Coughlin on this exact matter.

This will not end here. In fact it has just begun. This will progress, if allowed by the rest of us, till Muslims control the way all religion and religious icons/archetypes and avatars are represented anywhere. The issue is not that sharia and Islamic values apply to us. It does. The issue is whether or not they can enforce it wherever it is you happen to live.

At this link is a video depicting the ‘offending’ Simpsons clip with some analysis.

 

TURK PM VOWS SUPPORT FOR HAMAS

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And to think that Turkey is still a NATO member.

Turkish prime minister vows in speech in Cairo support for Palestinians in Gaza

CAIRO – Turkey’s prime minister has vowed support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Egypt’s uprising that ousted longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak from power last year as a point of hope for Palestinians. The Turkish leader delivered his remarks in a speech at Cairo University Saturday.

He also met President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo for the first time since the Egyptian Islamist leader was elected late June.

The Turkish leader is in Egypt with a delegation of 12 ministers and 350 businessmen.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people protested outside the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, where Arab foreign ministers are meeting to discuss Israel’s expanded fierce air assault on rocket operations in Gaza, which is run by the Islamic militant Hamas group.

Source Fox news

Police tear gas & water cannon Turkish secularists

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RT:

Published on Oct 29, 2012

Turkish police use tear gas and water cannons to try to break up a demonstration by tens of thousands of pro-secular protesters, but the march to mark the founding of the Turkish republic went on in defiance of a government ban.
The celebration of the founding of the Turkish republic has in the past few years become a symbol of the divide between Prime Minister Recep Erdogan’s elected, Islamic-leaning government and its opponents who fear the country’s secular traditions are in danger.
The Ankara governor’s office last week denied authorization for the march, citing security reasons, and declared the gathering illegal.
Challenging the ban, tens of thousands of people assembled in the old part of Ankara, near the building housing Turkey’s first parliament, to march to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the secular republic 89 years ago after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkish schoolbooks denounce Darwin, Einstein as ‘Jews’

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By JPOST.COM STAFF

LAST UPDATED: 10/20/2012 05:35

Turkish schoolchildren in Istanbul received a series of books denouncing scientific figures, including one denying the theory of evolution and describing Charles Darwin as a big-nosed Jew, the Financial Times reported Friday.According to the paper, the books were distributed last week to hundreds of students in the Maltepe district of Turkey’s capital after the government-affiliated local education authority approved their content.

The book on Darwin reportedly states that the evolutionary biologist “Had two problems: First he was a Jew; second, he hated his prominent forehead, big nose and misshapen teeth.”

Darwin was not Jewish.

A separate book on Albert Einstein reportedly describes the physicist as “filthy and slovenly” and accuses him of eating soap. “The sad part is during that time the Gestapo was putting Jews into ovens and making them into soap,” the book adds.

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Turkish Pianist on Trial for Insulting Islam

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World.Time

By Associated Press | October 18, 2012 | 1

(ISTANBUL) — A top Turkish pianist and composer appeared in court on Thursday to defend himself against charges of offending Muslims and insulting Islam in comments he made on Twitter.

Fazil Say, who has played with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and others, is on trial for sending tweets that included one in April that joked about a call to prayer that lasted only 22 seconds.

Say tweeted: ‘Why such haste? Have you got a mistress waiting or a raki on the table?’ Raki is a traditional alcoholic drink made with aniseed. Islam forbids alcohol and many Islamists consider the remarks unacceptable.

Prosecutors in June charged Say with inciting hatred and public enmity, and with insulting “religious values.” He faces a maximum 18 months prison term, although any sentence is likely to be suspended.

Say, who has served as a cultural ambassador for the European Union, rejected the charges and demanded his acquittal, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

The private Dogan news agency said the trial was adjourned until Feb. 18.

(MORE: Turkey’s Massive Military Trial Opens Old Wounds and New Anxieties)

The prosecution has caused anger among intellectuals in Turkey and escalated concerns over freedom of expression in the country. Hundreds of his fans, supporters and human rights activists went to the courthouse in Istanbul in a show of solidarity, holding up signs that read: “Fazil Say is not alone” and “Free Art, Free World”

Say, 42, is a strong critic of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a devout Muslim who has preached conservative values, alarming some secular Turks who fear the government plans to make religion part of their lifestyle.

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Turkish crew abandon Norwegian passengers on burning aircraft

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From Bild.De

Fire on plane / Crew leaving, abandoning passengers on burning plane

This is the Boeing 737-800 shortly after evacuation. Easy to recognise: Smoke coming from the machine, a fire had broken out in the cockpit

Antalya (Turkey): Mortal fear in a vacation plane goung from Antalya to Trondheim (Norway): On the turkish vacation paradise’s airport, a fire broke out in a Boeing 737-800 belonging to Corendon Airlines, shortly before take-off.

Unbelievable: Passengers reported that the crew fled – abandoning the passengers!

‘When we noticed the smoke, we wanted to leave the machine’, a tourist reports to norwegian newspaper ‘Verdens Gang’. The crew, however, demanded that we remain seated.’

Only when flames clearly visible came out of the cockpit, the flight stewards apparently realised the danger and fled from the plane. ‘Before us’, according to the tourist.

The airline contradicts the passengers’ descriptions. ‘The crew left the plane only after the last passenger had been evacutaed’, said a Corendon speaker.

Another passenger said she had seen from her front seat that, first the pilots fled from the smoking cockpit, then the remaining crew simply ‘disappeared’.

A panic erupted among the 158 passengers aboard the Boeing 737-800! According to reports found at the ‘ABCNews’ news portal, two passengers broke their legs while fleeing from the plane. 25 passengers inhaled smoke, had likewise to be taken to a hospital.

At this time, Antalya airport authorities refused to confirm the reports.

A representative for tour operator Detur said the passengers had immediately been brought into safety when the fire had been noted.