Mattia Cacciatori, journaliste italien placé en garde à vue le 22 Juin 2013. Demande de 7 ans de prison.. Il se demande si cela est une blague...
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Italian photographer Cacciatori for whom up to 7 year jail term is demanded for joining the Gezi Park Resistance: "Is that a joke??"
Italian photographer Mattia Cacciatori who was detained during the Gezi Park protests and later released commented about the 7 year jail term demanded for him: "Is that a joke? I was just taking photographs!"
http://www.baskahaber.org/2013/07/gezi-park-direnisine-katldg-icin-7-yla.html
An investigation was launched into the academic Timucin Koprulu's wearing a t-shirt with a print that reads "Resist" during a speech
It was revealed that the rectorate of Uludag University has launched an investigation on Timucin Koprulu who is an Assistant Professor in the university's Law Faculty, for making a speech while wearing a t-shirt with a print on it that read "Resist". Mr. Koprulu stated that he received the process today.
http://www.baskahaber.org/2013/07/akademisyen-timucin-kopruluye-diren.html
'Blood Nationalism' from Red Crescent, "We will produce National Drug from Halal blood"
Red Crescent will build a plant for producing “national drug” from “halal blood” taken from Turks.
http://www.baskahaber.org/2013/07/kzlaydan-kan-milliyetciligi-helal.html
Prosecutor demanded seven-year jail term for Ali Saricicek, the flag seller who was detained and then released last week.
Saricicek who was detained when selling flags in Taksim was accused of being disobedient to the law of public demonstrations and meetings and obstructing the police officers in the execution of their duty.
Dear friends, read carefully what I am about to write: Yesterday, on 16.07.2013, what do you think I came across when I tried to make sense of the traffic fine I received today in the hospital and that was delivered to the municipality we belong to .My mom came to the hospital moments ago, gave me the fine document and said “I will give you both funny and painful news”In the document it said I had to pay 77 TL because I committed the crime of “unnecessarily honking the horn” at 21:21 on June 22nd, 2013.
Aside from thinking “is there such a fine”, I tried to figure out how I was able to honk the horn “unnecessarily” at 21:21 especially since I don’t drive at nights … I started thinking about bad things already.When we were detained, one of the people among us was also brought to the police station for the exact same reasonWhen I was thinking about all these, my mom said that she went to Kurtulus county office to get the fine and the county head told him “hundreds of people come to us continuously to get this sort of fines and end up leaving while swearing” “Many of them were detained” he added.When I heard this the ugly picture got clearer and I remembered immediately:The first evening of my sister’s arrival from the US last month, we visited our Aunt living on Turgut Ozal Boulevard and that was the only time I drove at night as far as I remember. The location where I was fined was around that place.When we were returning home from the visit, I saw people doing “standing man” activity and to support them my sister opened the window and clapped them, and I supported and made my opinion clear by honking the horn a couple of times. Was that the day I got the fine? I looked into my emails immediately. When do you think was the day my sister arrived?
Turkish Airlines Flight TK2 (Aircraft Boeing 777-300ER)Depart (JFK) 21-Jun-2013 (Fri) 06:50pArrive (IST) 22-Jun-2013 (Sat) 11:40a We solved the mystery fine thanks to this information. It was the fascist and dishonest government’s attempt to suppress the citizens who are only using their democratic right in the simplest possible way, through the police forces they hired and made slaves out of in the most contemptible way.77 TL … unnecessarily honking the horn I have never honked the horn necessarily in my lifeYou however sold the country, tortured the public by using your fascist police force, stolen the rights of both the orphans and your own compatriots. Damn you 77 times.
Turkish Version: BU YAZACAKLARIMI OKUYUN DOSTLAR !!!
Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist Bekir Coşkun has been ordered to pay roughly 2,000 euros as non-pecuniary damages to PM Erdoğan for defamation due to his article entitled “The Big State Thing...”.
Ankara 9th Assize Court found Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist Bekir Coşkun guilty of “assaulting personality rights of PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ordering the senior journalist to pay roughly 2,000 euros as non-pecuniary damages.
The case was opened upon Coşkun’s article “The Big State Thing...” published on September 20, 2012.
“The aim is to punish dissidents,” Coşkun told bianet.
On the hearing yesterday, Coşkun’s advocates requested the rejection of case on the ground that their client’s article respected the limits of criticism.
Partially accepting advocates claims, the court issued a 5,000 Turkish Lira (roughly 2,000 euros) fine to Bekir Coşkun.
“We will appeal this verdict,” Coşkun said.
“We call this ellipsis (…) case. I have been writing with ellipsis ever since Süleyman Demirel was elected PM. My article doesn’t contain any insults at PM Erdoğan. On the other hand, I was recommended to sue Erdoğan when he called me “a writer whose pen flows dirt” at a parliamentary speech. I didn’t accept it. His job is to talk and my job is to write. Sometimes politicians say extreme things, such is the case with journalists. However, court trials hang above us like the sword of Damocles. My article is not about him in person. It is not about expression or press freedom either. These trials aim to punish and silence dissidents.”
Istanbul 10th Assize Court found journalist Ahmet Altan of insulting PM Erdoğan in his article “State Complicity and Morality” - a Taraf newspaper article dated January 4, 2012. The prominent journalist received 11 months and 20 days of prison, which was later on commuted to to a fine of 2,800 euros. (EA/BM)