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Erdogan Escalates Turkish Campaign to Disenfranchise Six Million Pro-Kurdish Voters
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Monday Briefing: Political upheaval in Tunisia and questions over what comes next
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By pledging to draft a civilian constitution and further imagining Turkey’s future in the European Union, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his cabinet have recently sent out ‘pseudo-reform’ signals to the rest of the world. At the same time, the government has bluntly intensified its repression at home. Indeed, just before the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Council president, Charles Michel, visited Ankara in March leading to the infamous ‘Sofagate’ incident a slew of disturbing developments upended Turkish politics.
In the last two months alone, the Turkish lira crashed after the sudden dismissal of the country’s central bank chief, Naci Ağbal; the government started its attempt to dismantle Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish opposition party, the HDP; the influential member of parliament and human rights activist, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, was expelled, followed by his imprisonment over a ‘socia
Erdoğan’s war on peace: The Gergerlioğlu case
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Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu is everything Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hates. He is a disillusioned former Islamist, a member of Parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and a human rights defender. Hence the jail sentence of two years and six months against him for a 2016 Twitter post
advocating peace. Last week, Turkey s top appeals court approved the jail sentence against Gergerlioğlu for spreading terrorist propaganda five years after his Twitter post, paving the way for him to be barred from Parliament. Gergerlioğlu is defiant. “I am not afraid,” he said in a recent phone call, but he should be. He has ruffled feathers in Erdoğan’s circles as well as among the country’s prison authorities when he shared stories on the floor of Parliament of men and women being strip-searched by police. Gergerlioğlu’s decision to give voice to the strip-search alle
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