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Read more @: Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan
Erdoğan the thug. Apparently he cant even take criticism on Twitter.
A Dutch journalist was blocked from leaving Turkey on Sunday following her arrest on Saturday night for tweets deemed critical of the Turkish president,Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“Police at the door. No joke,” wrote Ebru Umar on her Twitter account.
Umar, a well-known atheist and feminist journalist of Turkish origin, recently wrote a piece criticising Erdoğan for the Dutch daily Metro, extracts of which she then tweeted, leading to her arrest. After her arrest in the resort town of Kusadasi in western Turkey, where she was on holiday, Dutch officials said, she was brought before a judge.
She later said she was “free but forbidden to leave the country”.
Dutch blog Geenstijl said it received a message from Umar saying that she had been arrested after someone reported her tweets on a hotline set up by Turkish officials.
This could be Turkey's way of showing how they belong in the E.U. Europeans arrested Geert Wilders for stupid nebulous charges too.
Read more @: Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan
Erdoğan the thug. Apparently he cant even take criticism on Twitter. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan
Erdoğan the thug. Apparently he cant even take criticism on Twitter. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Stories like this are taken with glee by those arguing that Turkey will always be unfit to join the European Union. Laws against criticizing the country's leader is one the textbook hallmarks of what it means not to be a democracy.
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Americans often don't realize how actually unique and rare and wonderful our Free Speech protections are in this world. What we take for granted is not the common human experience.
German comedian Jan Böhmermann could face prison for 'smear poem' against Turkish President Erdogan
German politician arrested in Berlin for insulting Turkish president
Jokes About Erdogan Aren't Funny in Germany
Etc.
Americans often don't realize how actually unique and rare and wonderful our Free Speech protections are in this world. What we take for granted is not the common human experience.
Read more @: Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan
Erdoğan the thug. Apparently he cant even take criticism on Twitter. [/FONT][/COLOR]
That Erdogan is a professional scumbag. Finances, arms, trains and smuggles ISIS into Syria. Bought OIL from ISIS. Hampered attacks by Kurds against ISIS. Fer Krissakkesss, this guy is in NATO. He's the same scumbag that shot down the Russian jet. Kick him out of NATO. Take him to the Hague.
That Erdogan is a professional scumbag. Finances, arms, trains and smuggles ISIS into Syria. Bought OIL from ISIS. Hampered attacks by Kurds against ISIS. Fer Krissakkesss, this guy is in NATO. He's the same scumbag that shot down the Russian jet. Kick him out of NATO. Take him to the Hague.
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