police storm newspaper office "Zaman"
Turkish police have forcibly entered the editors of the publication. Before building the security forces used tear gas against demonstrators.
The Turkish police forced their way into the editorial offices of the opposition newspaper "Zaman" in Istanbul. Against the protesting crowd that had gathered outside the house since the night, the police had acted with tear gas, reported Turkish media Internet. "Thieves out!" Chanted the staff of the newspaper reportedly.
The newspaper was on Friday to a court order has been made out under the supervision of a state trust management. An official reason was initially unknown. Zaman is the movement of the preacher Fethullah Gülen near who lives in the US exile. Gülen was once an ally of the conservative Islamic state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but has fallen out with him.
Gülen "Hizmet" movement has been declared in Turkey a terrorist organization. Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused him to build a network of supporters in the judiciary, police and media and thus to operate the overthrow of the government. In addition to the acquisition of the newspaper also followers of Gülen movement were arrested. Gülen himself lives in the United States for years.
Zaman is the highest circulation newspaper in Turkey. Chief editor Abdul Hamit Bilici complained, since several years threatened dissidents trial, imprisonment or as in the case of his paper a takeover by the government. "This is a dark time for our country and our democracy," he said. Officials were initially not reachable for comments.
Already the court order had triggered international protests. The move was disconcerting, a spokesman of US Secretary of State John Kerry. Earlier, the government in Ankara had taken critical media targeted.
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But what would blossom we also came here the AFD times to power. "For the people" such people act only as long as the people makes it what it is: shut up and cheer when needed.
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