[size=16pt]More than 340 children in the Kurdish south-east of Turkey have been given long prison sentences in the past three years.

Most of them were detained for taking part in anti-government protests, under a law banning any show of support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK.

The government says it knows the law, which requires a minimum five-year sentence, is too harsh, but it has yet to change it.[/size]

davidylan:

peace activists must all be in Israel

in 2008 Newroz (Coming of Spring holiday, 21st of March) celebration, turkish forces broke a child's arm, who is 15 years old, ! Guess the fault of child? He didnt kill someone, probably he should throw stones against turkish mobil forces, ! And as cost of it, his arm is broken by this mongolian barbaric animals!

dayokanu:

Stop misinforming us Mariory, Only Israel attacks civilians Turks are Saints thats why the piss activists are not marching towatds Turkey just yet

Interior Minister Beşir Atalay made an exclusive statement to the daily Hürriyet.

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“Within the past two years Turkey has started reshaping its foreign policy in the hope of finding a greater role in its natural geopolitical habitat which includes the Middle East.

“However, Ankara would not be able to play a leadership in the region while it continues bombing Iraqi territory. Nor would Ankara's profession of anger at the way Israel treats the Gaza population sound sincere when Turkey's ethnic Kurds continue to be treated with less consideration than a modern democracy should offer its citizens. It is, perhaps, time for Erdoğan Pasha to start thinking the unthinkable.”

[size=14pt]Is Turkey a democracy?[/size]

President Barack Obama thinks Turkey is not a democracy. He thinks Turkey is “a great Islamic democracy.” You may think there are some democracies and others. President Obama thinks there are also democracies associated with certain religions.

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Mr. Obama told daily Corriere della Sera that Turkey can have a positive influence on the Muslim world. It sure can. Since Mr. Erdoğan took charge in 2002, no Muslim country has inched toward (even an Islamic) democracy. But President Obama is right about the possible Turkish influence if he thinks reinforcing Hamas-fetish and other anti-western sentiments among Muslim countries. In this context, Turkey is already a positive influence.

4 Play:

Anyone up for an aid mission to the Kurdish regions? Where is the outrage, wouldn't have anything to do with Turks not being Jews, would it?

4 Play:

Anyone up for an aid mission to the Kurdish regions? Where is the outrage, wouldn't have anything to do with Turks not being Jews, would it?

The Turkish charity at the centre of the raid by Israeli forces on an aid vessel in the Mediterranean was under intense scrutiny last night over its alleged links with militant organisations.

Despite their claims to be an entirely peaceful organisation, The Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) has a history of involvement in Islamic extremism around the world and has been linked with an attempted bombing of an airport in the US.

Convicted of terrorism, a Kurdish teenager is serving a seven-year, nine-month prison sentence in Turkey’s Prison E in Diyarbakir.

On October 9, 15-year-old Berivan Sayaca left her parents’ home in Batman in southeast Turkey to pay a visit to her aunt. She never came home.

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Four thousand villages have been destroyed since the 1990s, 35,000 Kurds and 5,000 Turks have died, 119,000 Kurds are incarcerated and more than 17,000 Kurds have disappeared.

ElRazur:

Seeing that one of the muppets----[size=20pt]I hope that is not what you call your Parents,[/size]

Tudór:

Where is Vedaxcool to come compose poems and lyrics against Turkish ''murderers'' and ''bloodsuckers''??

vedaxcool:

Where are those that were asking for replies and insulting Muslims? Shameless Insulters of Islam why have you gone to hide after spending so much time hurling Insults? I shake my head at your pitiful condition were hatred for Islam has Taken a prominent space in your reasoning Faculty hence incapacitating  you from regular and normal behavior.

Mariory:

I see you are taking your medication again. That's a good thing. At least your allah won't have difficulty in reading the massive inchoherent pixels you would otherwise have been typing.

I assume you still want as many virgins (boys, girls, and animals) as you can get in the after life right? Your allah needs to be able to read your posts for that to happen.

vedaxcool:


[size=30pt]Since you asked for it

Bold Blood suckers
bold blood suckers
Hacking Life you never created
Distroying what you never buit
Following the path of man more ignorant than yourself
A disgrace you are for Killing the Kurds
A blood sucker gouging Human blood
A blood sucker causing co much tears
whose path are you following
Oh! the path of the Misguided
Oh the path of the hedious
Oh! the path of the hearless
oh! the Path of Ataturk
The secular Mind with Nationalistic Madness
Why have you decided to be as some Blood Suckers?
In Nairaland do they Jublliate because the tribe of their god has killed
In Nairaland do they suck Human blood with their protruding Lips
How Low man has become
How Low has man become
How devious has you mind become
How ruthless have you thought become
How Shameless have you become
All because the tribe of your god has killed
Ah but fear a day that ALLAH shall strike the heartless, the ruthlesss, the shameless and the blood Suckers.[/size]