19-07-2016, 04:14 PM
Now up to 30-40,000 have been arrested or fired from their jobs - with MANY more coming. This is a purge of all opponents or perceived opponents of the current government and its bully would-be dictator ruler [even if elected]. He just fired all deans of all universities and colleges for reasons not even clear. He is cleaning house and will put in all positions his own crew. The cries for re-instituting the death penalty are growing...I think this will get very ugly indeed. Turkish prisons have long been known for cruel treatment and torture. There has been NO legal process for any of these arrests or firings and none are yet planned. A spokesmen when asked about that pointed to the USA not using any legal process in Guantanamo nor in its war on terror. Can't argue with that.
I think Turkey will look a lot more like present day Egypt in a few weeks. Sad.
I think Turkey will look a lot more like present day Egypt in a few weeks. Sad.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass