Erdogan promotes "Travesty International" in his own country
The detention of human-rights activists on terrorism charges is hard for other countries to ignore
Istanbul, July 14.─ It was the sort of intervention on behalf of a persecuted opposition politician that Amnesty International carries out hundreds of times a year. In 1998, after Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the mayor of Istanbul, was jailed for a speech in which he read out a religiously themed poem, the human-rights group termed him a “prisoner of conscience” and wrote to the government demanding his release. Nineteen years later, Mr Erdogan, now Turkey’s president, presides over an increasingly authoritarian regime. And his police force has arrested Amnesty International’s own staff along with other human-rights activists. So it was to Mr Erdogan that the group found itself writing last week to demand the release of detainees. He shows little sign of softening.
More than 50,000 people have been jailed in the purges that followed the attempted coup in Turkey on July 15th last year. But the latest arrests nevertheless shocked human-rights advocates, if only because their colleagues were the targets.
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Pero a medida que se reducían las llegadas desde esa ciudad, los campamentos instalados para acoger a quienes huyen de los combates han empezado a recibir un incipiente flujo procedente de Hawija, uno de los últimos feudos del Estado Islámico (ISIS) en Irak y la previsible próxima batalla para las fuerzas gubernamentales.
This strategy was already envisioned by former Communist Party Secretary Chen Kuiyuan when he blatantly ordered to: "Erradicate Tibetan Buddhism and culture from the face of the Earth, so that no memory of them will be left in the minds of coming generations of Tibetans, except as museum pieces."