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Egypt’s Former President Morsi Dies in Court : State TV | News | teleSUR English
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Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi died after fainting during a court hearing.

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has died in court, state television reported Monday.

It said Morsi had fainted after a court session and died afterward. He was pronounced dead at 4:50 pm local time according to the country’s public prosecutor.

“He was speaking before the judge for 20 minutes then became very animated and fainted. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he later died,” a judicial source said.

“In front of Allah, my father and we shall unite,” wrote Ahmed, Morsi’s son on Facebook.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan paid tribute to Morsi saying, "May Allah rest our Morsi brother, our martyr’s soul in peace.”

According to medical reports, there were no apparent injuries on his body.

Morsi, who was democratically elected after the popular ouster of Hosni Mubarak, was toppled by the military led by coup leader and current President Abdul-Fattah el-Sissi in 2013 after protests against his rule.

“We received with great sorrow the news of the sudden death of former president Dr. Mohamed Morsi. I offer my deepest condolences to his family and Egyptian people. We belong to God and to him we shall return,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani wrote on Twitter.

The United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric offered condolences to his supporters and relatives.

State television said Morsi, who was 67, was in court for a hearing on charges of espionage emanating from suspected contacts with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip that is under blockade by the current Egyptian government and Israel.

He was facing at least six trials for politically motivated charges according to his supporters. The former president was also serving a 20-years prison sentence for allegedly killing protesters in 2012.

Morsi was suffering from various health issues including diabetes and liver and kidney disease. During his imprisonment, he suffered from medical neglect worsened by poor prison conditions.

Mohammed Sudan, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that Morsi’s death was "premeditated murder” by not allowing him adequate health care.

"He has been placed behind [a] glass cage [during trials]. No one can hear him or know what is happening to him. He hasn’t received any visits for months or nearly a year. He complained before that he doesn’t get his medicine. This is premeditated murder. This is a slow death,” Sudan said.

Morsi was allowed 3 short visits in 6 years. One in November 2013 after being forcibly disappeared for 4 months, and another in June 2017 when only his wife and daughter were allowed, and the third in September 2018 with security official recording the whole conversation.
— Abdelrahman Ayyash (@3yyash) June 17, 2019

#Égypte #islamisme #prison

Turquie : l’Autorité électorale ordonne un nouveau scrutin municipal à Istanbul
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/turquie-l-autorite-electorale-ordonne-un-nouveau-scrutin-municipal-a-istanb

Le parti présidentiel islamo-conservateur, l’AKP, réclamait la tenue d’un nouveau scrutin en dénonçant des « irrégularités » qui auraient selon lui émaillé le vote du 31 mars. « Les élections à Istanbul seront renouvelées », s’est félicité sur Twitter le représentant de l’AKP auprès de l’YSK, Recep Ozel. La décision d’annuler le scrutin et d’ordonner la tenue d’un nouveau vote a été prise à l’issue d’une réunion de l’YSK à Ankara pour examiner un « recours extraordinaire » contre les résultats présentés par l’AKP en avril. Lors de ces élections, le candidat de plusieurs partis d’opposition, Ekrem Imamoglu, a battu celui de l’AKP, l’ex-premier ministre Binali Yildirim, avec moins de 15.000 voix d’avance, un écart infime à l’échelle de la mégapole turque.

L’AKP de Recep Tayyip Erdogan a également perdu la capitale Ankara, un camouflet qui s’explique notamment par la tempête économique qui secoue le pays, avec la première récession en 10 ans, une inflation à 20% et une monnaie qui s’érode. Mais refusant d’admettre la défaite à Istanbul, Erdogan a crié aux « irrégularités massives ». L’AKP accuse notamment des responsables de bureaux de vote d’avoir minimisé le nombre de voix remportées par son candidat.

#démocratie #je_vote_jusqu_au_resultat_attendu comme à #pile_ou_face

Erdogan perd le contrôle d’Ankara et d’Istanbul
[ça a surtout l’air très instable…]
▻https://www.latribune.fr/economie/international/erdogan-perd-le-controle-d-ankara-et-d-istanbul-812668.html

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Ankara est la plus grande ville du pays et le scrutin de dimanche était le premier depuis qu’Erdogan a été investi de pouvoirs étendus en juillet dernier. Selon Kemal Kilicdaroglu, chef du CHP, parti d’opposition à l’AKP d’Erdogan, sa formation l’aurait emporté à Ankara et Istanbul, ainsi qu’à Izmir, la troisième ville du pays. Mais l’AKP contesterait les résultats dans certains quartiers de la capitale.

Le Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP) de Recep Tayyip Erdogan a perdu le contrôle d’Ankara lors des élections municipales de dimanche, alors que le président a semblé reconnaître sa défaite à Istanbul, la plus grande ville du pays.

Selon les chaînes de télévision turques, le principal candidat du Parti populaire républicain (CHP, opposition), Mansur Yavas, l’a emporté à Ankara. A Istanbul, le décompte des voix était si serré que les deux partis ont revendiqué la victoire.

« Le peuple a voté en faveur de la démocratie, ils ont choisi la démocratie », a déclaré le chef du CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, ajoutant que sa formation l’avait emporté à Ankara et Istanbul, ainsi qu’à Izmir, la troisième ville du pays.

L’agence officielle Anadolu a rapporté que l’AKP contesterait les résultats dans certains districts de la capitale.

A Istanbul, l’AKP a indiqué que son candidat, l’ancien Premier ministre Binali Yildirim, était arrivé en tête, devançant de 4.000 voix son adversaire du CHP, Ekrem Imamoglu - avec plus de 4 millions de voix chacun. Ce dernier a quant à lui revendiqué la victoire avec une avance de 28.000 votes.

Dans un discours devant des sympathisants à Ankara, Erdogan a semblé concéder la défaite de l’AKP à Istanbul, malgré le fait que sa formation gardait le contrôle de certains districts de la ville.

« Même si notre peuple a renoncé à la mairie, il a confié les districts à l’AKP », a-t-il déclaré, ajoutant que son parti ferait appel des résultats si besoin.

Russia’s Gazprom says offshore part of TurkStream is complete | Reuters
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Construction of the offshore part of the TurkStream pipeline that will carry Russian gas across the Black Sea to Turkey has been completed, Russian gas producer Gazprom said on Monday.

TurkStream is part of Moscow’s efforts to bypass Ukraine as a gas transit route to Europe, which imports around a third of its gas needs from Gazprom.

“Projects of this kind and this project in particular are not directed against the interests of anyone. Projects of this kind are purely creative,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attended an official ceremony in Istanbul.

Work will now focus onshore and is on track to be completed by the end of 2019, he said.

Gazprom is building the TurkStream in two lines, each with a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic metres of gas per year. The first will supply Turkey and the second southern Europe.

Turkey is almost completely reliant on imports to meet its energy needs. A crippling currency crisis which has seen the lira plummet has increased costs, prompting energy companies to hike consumer prices.

Turkey’s state pipeline operator Botas will build the 69-km section of TurkStream which will carry natural gas from the coast to its distribution centre in Luleburgaz in northwestern Turkey, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez told private broadcaster NTV, adding he expected this to be completed in 2019.

A 145-km section of pipeline from the distribution centre to the border will be constructed by Botas and Gazprom, he said.

#Turquie : le gouvernement a retiré 140.000 #livres des #bibliothèques

En Turquie, la #liberté_d'expression semble plus malmenée que jamais, plusieurs mois après le coup d’État manqué de la mi-2016 qui a relancé le gouvernement d’Erdogan dans une purge politique visant l’opposition. Depuis le mois de juin 2016, 140.000 livres auraient été retirés des collections de 1142 bibliothèques, puis détruits, au motif qu’ils feraient la promotion des idées de Fethullah Gülen, principal opposant de Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Depuis le mois de juin 2016 et un coup d’État militaire manqué contre Erdogan, le président turc multiplie les arrestations et intimidations à l’encontre de ses opposants. Les dernières victimes en date sont les bibliothèques du pays : en réponse à une question parlementaire, le ministre de la Culture turc Numan Kurtulmuş a révélé que 140.000 livres avaient été retirés des établissements de prêt depuis le mois de juin 2016.

« Les publications sur le mouvement Gülen [aussi appelé FETÖ par le gouvernement turc] et Fethullah Gülen, ainsi que celles de maisons d’édition fermées par décret du gouvernement, présentes dans les 1142 bibliothèques placées sous notre juridiction, ont été retirées d’urgence », a indiqué Kurtulmuş en réponse à une question d’Ömer Fethi Gürer, député du Parti républicain du peuple, dans l’opposition.

Pour être exact, 139.141 titres feraient actuellement l’objet d’une enquête, a précisé le ministre de la Culture turc. Parmi ces derniers, assure Deutsche Welle, des ouvrages de Baruch Spinoza, Albert Camus ou Louis Althusser, tous accusés d’avoir fait parti d’organisations terroristes...

La Fédération internationale des associations et institutions de bibliothèques (IFLA) s’est déclarée très préoccupée par ces retraits d’ouvrages des bibliothèques du pays.

Les soupçons de soutien à Gülen, exilé aux États-Unis, s’apparentent à un véritable crime, en Turquie : le gouvernement aurait même fait retirer un manuel de mathématiques dans lequel un problème évoquait « un point F » et « un point G », pensant avoir affaire à une référence déguisée à l’intellectuel turc, autrefois soutien d’Erdogan, mais opposé à sa politique depuis 2010.

Le gouvernement turc attribue aux fidèles de l’opposant politique Fethullah Gülen le coup d’État raté de juin 2016, et menace les activités de différents groupes, notamment des éditeurs, en les accusant d’apporter un soutien financier à l’Organisation Terroriste Guleniste (FETO), rattachée par le gouvernement à Fethullah Gülen.

▻https://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/turquie-le-gouvernement-a-retire-140-000-livres-des-bibliotheques/86271
#censure #destruction

Trump ME peace plan : Half West Bank for Palestinians, Abu Dis as capital - DEBKAfile
▻https://www.debka.com/trump-me-peace-plan-half-west-bank-for-palestinians-abu-dis-as-capital

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The president had discussed the peace plan’s content with three Arab leaders, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, UAE emir Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed, the Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi, as well as thoroughly briefing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was invited to come aboard, but he rebuffed the offer – and that was even before he generated a crisis with Israel for its deadly confrontation with Hamas in Gaza.
(...)
A Palestinian state will be established with limited sovereignty across about half of the West Bank and all the Gaza Strip.
Israel will retain security responsibility for most of the West Bank and the border crossings.
The Jordan Valley will remain under Israel sovereignty and military control.
.The Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem will pass to the Palestinian state, excepting the Old City, which will be part of Israeli Jerusalem.
Abu Dis east of Jerusalem is the proposed capital of Palestine.
Palestine and Jordan will share religious jurisdiction over the city’s mosques.
Gaza will be integrated in the new Palestinian state provided Hamas agrees to disarm.
There is no provision in the plan for the Palestinian refugees’ “right of return” – but a compensation mechanism will be established and managed by the international community.
The Trump plan mandates Israel’s recognition as the homeland of the Jewish people, and Palestine with limited sovereignty as the Palestinian homeland.

Debka est un site « d’intelligence » qui sert souvent aux Israéliens à faire passer des infos à confirmer par la suite... Les choses seraient décidées à la fin du mois de ramadan...

#palestine

Turkey’s Erdogan links fate of detained U.S. pastor to wanted cleric Gulen
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb//News/Middle-East/2017/Sep-28/420858-turkeys-erdogan-links-fate-of-detained-us-pastor-to-wanted-cler

President Tayyip Erdogan suggested Thursday that Turkey could free a detained U.S. pastor if the United States hands over a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania whom Ankara blames for a failed military coup last year.

Turkey has been seeking the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan whose supporters are blamed for trying to overthrow Erdogan’s government in July 2016. Gulen has denied any role in the coup attempt, in which 250 people were killed.

Thousands of people have been detained in a crackdown since the failed coup, including American Christian missionary Andrew Brunson, who ran a small church in Izmir on Turkey’s western coast.

Brunson has been held since October. Turkish media say the charges against him include membership of Gulen’s network, considered a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government. The United States says Brunson has been wrongfully imprisoned and has called for him to be released.

In a speech to police officers at the presidential palace in Ankara, Erdogan appeared to link the fate of the two men.

“’Give us the pastor back’, they say. You have one pastor as well. Give him [Gulen] to us,” Erdogan said. “Then we will try him (Brunson) and give him to you.”

“The [pastor] we have is on trial. Yours is not - he is living in Pennsylvania. You can give him easily. You can give him right away.”

A decree issued in August gave Erdogan authority to approve the exchange of foreigners detained or convicted in Turkey with people held in other countries “in situations required by national security or national interests”.

Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017
▻http://www.dw.com/en/fake-news-is-a-red-herring/a-37269377

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Fake news, propaganda and “disinformatzya” are changing the media landscape - in the US, Russia and Turkey and across the world. The question is how to combat them.

Par Ethan Zuckerman (une véritable analyse des diverses composantes du monde post-truth)

Different types of fake news

It’s tempting to say that Trump is using “fake news” to mean “news I don’t like”, but the reality is more complicated. “Fake news,” in this usage, means “real issues that don’t deserve as much attention as they’re receiving.” This form of fake news was likely an important factor in the 2016 campaign. There’s a compelling argument that the release of Clinton and Podesta’s emails by Russian hackers - and the media firestorm that ensued - were key to the outcome of the US election. While media outlets overfocused on the non-scandal of the emails, this wasn’t “fake news” so much as it was “false balance,” with newspapers playing up a Clinton “scandal” to counterbalance an endless sequence of Trump scandals.

There’s another type of “fake news” that surfaces during virtually every political campaign: propaganda. Propaganda is weaponized speech that mixes truthful, deceptive and false speech, and is designed explicitly to strengthen one side and weaken the other. Propaganda has been around for a long time, preceding the era of mass media.

A third category of “fake news,” relatively new to the scene in most countries, is disinformatzya. This is news that’s not trying to persuade you that Trump is good and Hillary bad (or vice versa). Instead, it’s trying to pollute the news ecosystem, to make it difficult or impossible to trust anything. This is a fairly common tactic in Russian politics and it’s been raised to an art form in Turkey by President Tayyip Erdogan, who uses it to discredit the internet, and Twitter in particular. Disinformatyza helps reduce trust in institutions of all sorts, leading people either to disengage with politics as a whole or to put their trust in strong leaders who promise to rise above the sound and fury. The embrace of “fake news” by the right wing in America as a way of discrediting the “mainstream media” can be understood as disinformatzya designed to reduce credibility of these institutions - with all the errors news organizations have made, why believe anything they say?

One of the best known forms of disinformatya is “shitposting,” the technique of flooding online fora with abusive content, not to persuade readers, but to frustrate anyone trying to have a reasonable discussion of politics on the internet.

Solving the problem of sensationalistic, click-driven journalism likely requires a new business model for news that focuses on its civic importance above profitability. In many European nations, public broadcasters provide at least a partial solution to this problem - in the US, a strong cultural suspicion of government involvement with news complicates this solution. A more promising path may be to address issues of filtering and curation. Getting Facebook to acknowledge that it’s a publisher, not a neutral platform for sharing content, and that its algorithmic decisions have an impact would be a first step towards letting users choose how ideologically isolated or exposed they want to be. Building public interest news aggregators that show us multiple points of view is a promising direction as well. Unbalanced news is a problem that’s always been with us, dealt with historically by shaping and adhering to journalistic standards - it’s now an open question whether social media platforms will take on that responsibility.

Surprisingly, our best bets for fighting propaganda may come from a return to the past. Stanford historian Fred Turner wrote a brilliant book, “The Democratic Surround,” on how US intellectuals had tried to fight fascist propaganda in the 1940s through reinforcing democratic and pluralistic values. Rather than emphasizing critical reading or debate, the thinkers Turner documents designed massive museum installations intended to force Americans to wrestle with the plurality and diversity of their nation and the world. While exhibits such as “The Family of Man” might be an impossibly dated way to combat fake news, the idea of forcing people to confront a wider world than the one they’re used to wrestling with goes precisely to the root of the problems that enable fake news.

#fake_news #post-truth #passionnant

Turquie #OCS- Changement majeur en politique étrangère : la Turquie abandonne l’UE pour l’Eurasie
▻http://vilistia.org/archives/12749

mardi 22 novembre 2016 Changement majeur en politique étrangère : la Turquie abandonne l’UE pour l’Eurasie Le président turc Tayyip Erdogan a déclaré le 20 novembre que la Turquie n’avait pas besoin de rejoindre l’Union européenne « à tout prix ». Au lieu … Lire la suite →

#TURQUIE_RUSSIE_IRAN_OCS

Exclusive: Turkish military officer seeking asylum in United States - U.S. officials | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-asylum-exclusive-idUSKCN10L03U

A Turkish military officer on a U.S.-based assignment for NATO is seeking asylum in the United States after being recalled by the Turkish government in the wake of last month’s failed military coup, U.S. officials told Reuters.

The asylum bid is the first known case involving a Turkish military officer in the United States as Turkey purges military ranks after mutinous soldiers commandeered fighter jets, helicopters and tanks in an unsuccessful attempt to oust President Tayyip Erdogan.

The case has the potential to further strain ties between the United States and Turkey, which is already demanding Washington hand over a U.S.-based Turkish cleric it alleges was responsible for the failed coup.

The two U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the Turkish officer was working at the headquarters of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, located in Norfolk, Virginia. They did not name him or offer his rank.

However, an official at Turkey’s embassy in Washington said Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Mustafa Ugurlu had failed to report to authorities after Turkey issued a detention order for him last month.

“On July 22, on that day he left his badges and his ID at the base and after that no one has heard anything from him,” the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Turkish official said he was unaware of a subsequent asylum request. An April news article on the NATO website identified Ugurlu as the Norfolk-based command’s assistant chief of staff for command and control, deployability and sustainability.

Obama urges Turkey’s Erdogan to withdraw troops from Iraq
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President Barack Obama urged Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Friday to “deescalate tensions” with Iraq by continuing to withdraw Turkish forces from northern Iraq, the White House said in a statement.

Sunni Alliances Trump Obama Administration Terrorism Concerns in Syria
▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31266-sunni-alliances-trump-obama-administration-terrorism-concerns-in-sy

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The government of Qatar and some in al-Nusra itself had hoped to placate Washington by rebranding the al-Qaeda affiliate as a nationalist resistance organization that is separate from al-Qaeda and interested in ousting the Assad regime only. But that ruse has now collapsed, and the Obama administration has still made no move to demand that its allies shut down their support for al-Nusra.

And therein lies a key to understanding the real dynamics governing US Middle East policy: The policy makers regard the alliances and the US military bases located in the Sunni states as more important than the threat they have helped to create.

L’hyper-présidence de M. Erdogan en question
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/06/07/l-hyper-presidence-de-m-erdogan-en-question_4649034_3214.html

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Les élections législatives de dimanche 7 juin sont déterminantes pour l’avenir du président islamo-conservateur, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 61 ans, aux manettes du pays depuis douze ans.

Lire Wendy Kristianasen, « Le splendide isolement de la #Turquie » (janvier 2015)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/01/KRISTIANASEN/51975

« Zéro problème » avec les voisins, tel était l’objectif de la politique étrangère du Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP). Mais les « printemps arabes » ont bouleversé la donne régionale, et la Turquie se trouve désormais en froid avec la Syrie, l’Arabie saoudite, l’Iran et l’Egypte. Alors que le régime connaît une dérive autoritaire, le choix de la « solitude dans la dignité » constitue-t-il une option ? [#st]

▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/2131 via Le Monde diplomatique

Turquie : des élections législatives à haut risque - 04/06/2015
▻http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20150604-turquie-elections-legislatives-risque-erdogan

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La Turquie se rend aux urnes, le 7 juin 2015, pour renouveler son Parlement (550 députés), dominé depuis 13 ans par le Parti de la Justice et du Développement de M. ‘Redjep’ Tayyip Erdogan, qui est devenu président de la République en août (...)

President Erdoğan’s choices of energy civil servants for top court spark questions - POLITICS
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/president-erdogans-choices-of-energy-civil-servants-for-top-court

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed nine new members with backgrounds in various fields, mainly from energy, to the Council of State, leading to concerns among environmentalists and chamber of professions that the court may no longer prioritize environmental aspects of energy projects.

However, experts suggest that Erdoğan’s choices could pave the way for mining, thermal power plant and hydroelectric power plant (HES) projects because the new members include a number of experts who wrote reports objecting to appeals demanding that certain projects be halted.

Hüseyin Yeşil, the head of the Chamber of Electrical Engineers, also drew attention to the fact that the new members had been elected from among those who asked at the time for a rejection of certain cases by the Council of State.

“The appointment of these people, who have been in the energy bureaucracy, will have an impact on these cases,” Yeşil said, citing cases opened by the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB).

“They will pave the way for all energy projects that they find appropriate. They are taking measures to ensure that the Council of State will not cancel projects. All of those new members in the past put their signatures on objections to appeals at the court,” he added.

#Centrale_électrique #environnement #Turquie

Egypt blasts Turkish leader Erdogan after U.N. speech
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has accused Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan of supporting terrorists and seeking to provoke mayhem in the Middle East after he questioned the legitimacy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a speech at the UN General Assembly.

#turkey keeps 11 police officers accused of wiretapping in custody
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkey-keeps-11-police-officers-accused-wiretapping-custody

A Turkish court ordered that 11 more police officers be kept in custody pending trial over accusations that they used wiretaps to spy on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle, a defense lawyer said on Wednesday. The latest arrests step up a battle between Erdogan and US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, a former ally, whose followers have taken key posts in the police and judiciary during Erdogan’s 11 years in power. read more

#Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan

Pour #Erdogan il y a #civils et civils,

03/09/2013
M. Erdogan critiqué pour sa position interventionniste contre le régime Assad
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2013/09/03/m-erdogan-critique-pour-sa-position-interventionniste-contre-le-regime-assad

19/06/2014
Turkey gives cold shoulder to US strikes in Iraq
▻http://www.todayszaman.com/news-350758-turkey-opposes-possible-us-strikes-on-militants-in-iraq.htm

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said any air strike on Iraq could cause considerable civilian deaths and that the US does not view such a strategy as favorable.

#hypocrisie

#erdogan heckles critic at judicial ceremony
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/erdogan-heckles-critic-judicial-ceremony

An angry Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan heckled the head of the country’s bar association on Saturday, accusing him of rudeness for speaking too long and critically at a judicial ceremony, then stormed out of the hall. The dramatic scene underscored how tensions remain high after bitterly contested March local polls and amid expectations Erdogan will seek the presidency in another election in August. read more

#Top_News #turkey

#turkey seeking to boost powers of secret service agency
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19376

Turkey’s government sought parliamentary approval to boost the powers of the secret service on Thursday, a move seen by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s critics as a bid to tighten his grip on the apparatus of state as he wages a bitter power struggle. Control of the NATO member’s security apparatus goes to the heart of a feud between Erdogan and Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally based in the United States whose network of followers wields influence in the police and judiciary. read more

#Top_News

Turkish officials discuss #syria operation in leaked recording
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkish-officials-discuss-syria-operation-leaked-recording

An anonymous YouTube account on Thursday posted what it said was an audio recording of #turkey's intelligence chief discussing possible military operations in Syria with the foreign minister and the deputy head of the armed forces. The posting follows similar releases on social media in recent weeks which Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has cast as a plot orchestrated by his political enemies to undermine him ahead of March 30 elections. read more

#Top_News

Erdogan slams opponents amid criticism over #Twitter ban
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/erdogan-slams-opponents-amid-criticism-over-twitter-ban

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Supporters of #turkey's prime minister wave Turkish and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) flags during an election rally in Ankara March 22, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Adem Altan)

With a huge rally on the approach to the Bosphorus waterway, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will launch a final electoral push on Sunday to stifle rivals he described this weekend as an ’alliance of evil’ in cahoots with terrorism. Erdogan, who vowed last week to wipe out Twitter in Turkey for carrying anonymous postings accusing him and associates of corrupt dealings, accused the networking site of “systematic character assassination.” The site remained blocked on Saturday in Turkey, access denied as a “protection measure.” read (...)

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Food and fuel trump graft for Turkey’s local elections

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Taxi driver Ramazan Aktay is quick to shrug off the corruption scandal swirling around Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, at least as long as the ruling party keeps delivering free food and coal to his working class suburb of Ankara.

Allegations of government graft, which Erdoğan has cast as a campaign to destroy him by political enemies at home and abroad, have spiraled into the biggest challenge of his 11-year rule, unnerved foreign investors and raised questions about Turkey’s commitment to democratic reforms. In other countries, his opponents complain, a scandal of such proportions, with voice recordings purportedly detailing corruption among his inner circle appearing on social media on a daily basis, would bring a prime minister down, or at least force him to publicly confront the allegations head on. Yet few in Turkey doubt Erdoğan’s AK Party will emerge triumphant, if weakened, from local elections on March 30, carried on a wave of support from a conservative and pious segment of society that sees him as a hero for raising living standards and breaking the hold of a secular, urban elite. “This is a poor neighborhood. We got 50 bags of coal and then another 20 as the elections near. They distribute everything; food, clothing, detergent,” Aktay, 33, said of the Islamist-rooted AK Party, standing among dilapidated homes in Ankara’s Mamak district.

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Erdogan calls dead teen protester «terrorist»
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Protestors flee tear gas during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan on March 12, 2014 in Istanbul. (Photo: AFP / MIRA)

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said a teenager who died this week after sustaining a head injury in anti-government protests last summer was linked to “terrorist organizations”, in comments likely to fan political tensions. The death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan on Tuesday after nine months in a coma sparked #turkey's worst unrest since nationwide anti-government demonstrations last June, compounding Erdogan’s woes as he battles a corruption scandal that has become one of the biggest challenges of his decade in power. read (...)

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#turkey shuts down schools owned by Erdogan rival
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Turkey’s parliament passed legislation to shut down private preparatory schools many of which are an important source of income and influence for an Islamic cleric Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accuses of running a covert campaign to topple him. Lawmakers late on Friday set a deadline of September 1, 2015, to close the schools, news channels reported, which millions of students attend to prepare for entrance examinations to win limited spots at state high schools and universities. read more

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