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Turkey: EU leaders silent on AKP’s crushing of democracy
Turkey’s so-called state of emergency has given Erdogan the opportunity to increase his party’s power, writes CEM SIMSEK
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HAYATIN SESI, a Turkish nationwide TV station, was established nine years ago as the “voice of millions not millionaires” but is now being targeted in the Turkish government’s “anti-coup” witch-hunt alongside 22 other television and radio stations.
Following the declaration of a state of emergency on July 20, parliament has been suspended and the government has been equipped with wide-ranging powers. In the immediate aftermath, under the pretext of the operations against supporters of the Fethullah Gulen terror organisation, all opposition groups were labelled as linked to terror and became the focus of the purge.
The closure of our channel, which is the voice of workers, was an important part of this purge. Before the state of emergency came to an end the ruling AKP party was able to reach an important point in its ambitions — not least with regards the dismissal of over 10,000 members of militant teachers union Egitim-sen, the suspension of academics calling for peace and of course the detention of opposition journalists.
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