Turkey sentences Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunc to two years in jail — for opposing ISIS

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After of century of Ataturk — separation of mosque and state — a once-prospering and modern Turkey has been dragged back to stone ages by deeply devout monster Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Islamic totalitarian Turkish President Erdogan, the great destroyer of Ataturk and modern Turkey, means to incite a worldwide jihad and restore the Ottoman caliphate. Ferhat Tunc’s crime was supporting the forces that were fighting ISIS; the clearest sign of Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization and turn away from the West is the fact that he was tried at all. Turkey should be removed from NATO. Turkey stopped being a reliable ally of the West long ago. Time to acknowledge that fact.

“Turkey sentences Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunc to two years in jail,” by Ari Khalidi, Kurdistan 24, September 25, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A Turkish court in Istanbul on Tuesday sentenced the Kurdish musician and singer, Ferhat Tunc, to one year, 11 months, and 12 days of imprisonment for his social media posts supporting US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State (IS).

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He disseminated propaganda for a terrorist organization, a prosecutor who was asking for up to nine years of jail argued.

The trial of Tunc is the latest in thousands of cases targeting freedom of speech since a crackdown on the civil society, and Kurdish politicians began in mid-2016 under the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which emerged even more powerful in elections three months ago.

Tunc’s vocal support in 2014 and onward for the besieged defenders of the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) during a fierce IS assault right under the border with Turkey constituted a crime according to the Turkish judiciary.

His last album released in 2016 is named Kobani. With a political art career spanning three decades, he sings in Turkish and the Kurdish dialects of Kirmanjki (Zazaki) and Kurmanji.

Ankara views the US-allied People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria a terror group on the grounds it has ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

“I do not regret supporting those who battle the most barbarous organization in the world,” a defiant Tunc told the court, Kurdistan 24’s Istanbul bureau reported.

“Was [the prosecutor] expecting me to remain silent in the face of IS kidnapping, enslavement and sale of women, their beheading of those not from them, and turning children into murderers? YPG defended people against an army of barbarians. I reject being accused of having mentioned the YPG and YPJ,” he added….

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Thank Obama for being successful in getting Erdogan in as head of Turkey.
Turkey is no longer an alley.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Left/Liberal and jihadis think the same.

Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Evacuate Incirlik Air Base and Izmir Air Station of all US troops and personnel. Nuke turkeyland. Scorched earth … NO survivors allowed. The world’s a far, far better place.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Ataturk led the slaughter of Greeks at Smyrna, if that’s secular I’ll eat his fez.

Buck
Buck
5 years ago

Turkey is the enemy

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Kurdistan should join NATO in Turkey’s stead.

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