Turkey: Jail for Hunger Strike

by Burak Bekdil  •  June 5, 2017 at 4:00 am

• Instead of trying to silence the global voice against his increasingly autocratic governance, and oppressing millions who do not respect him, Erdogan could try to earn respect by having a little mercy on dissidents.
• Although there has been no ruling so far that Fethullah Gulen was the mastermind behind the attempted coup, 150,000 people have been purged, and they, their families and perhaps a million Turks are decrying Erdogan's unjust behavior.
• So, officially, they remain "terrorists", even though they were acquitted of charges of terrorism.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to convince the international community that he is not Hitler. (Photo by Elif Sogut/Getty Images)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in an odd mood: He is trying to convince the international community that he is not Hitler. Most recently, Erdogan's government ordered Google to de-list more than 40 URLs that reported about the Turkish government's recent crackdown on journalists and other critics that compared Turkey's president to Hitler.

Instead of trying to silence the global voice against his increasingly autocratic governance, and oppressing millions who do not respect him, he could try to earn respect by having a little mercy on dissidents. That is probably too much to expect from someone who once infamously said that "If you pity you will be pitied".

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