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    JEWISH VOICE: HIGH TIME FOR ERDOGAN TO FACE THE MUSIC

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/723321/jewish-voice-high-time-for-erdogan-to-face-the-music.html
    13:38, 20 June, 2013

    YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS: The Jewish Voice is calling on the
    International Olympic Committee to take a hard look at the current
    situation in Turkey, and think deeply about whether that country is
    the appropriate venue for a world sporting event that is supposed to
    send a message of freedom and the value of individual human enterprise,
    reports Armenpress.

    Istanbul is one of the primary contenders to host the 2020 Summer
    Olympics, stimulating Erdogan to try marketing the city as a connecting
    force between civilizations. Yet despite such hopes, the leader of
    Turkey is not hesitant to foster an atmosphere at home that reeks
    with authoritarianism and rapidly creeping tyranny.

    "We are also calling on the good, inherently human rights-loving people
    of Turkey to continue to set aside their fears - however justified -
    and mount a full-scale uprising against the Erdogan regime. Unmitigated
    justice and true democracy must ultimately prevail in Turkey," says
    Jewish Voice.

    The newspaper notes that like other Middle Eastern leaders before him,
    Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, has sadly not been able to
    leave well enough alone. For quite a while, his country was more in
    tune with Western values, allowing its citizenry to enjoy a decent
    amount of freedom as per democratic tenets and keeping the region's
    prevailing spirit of hard-line Islamism within controlled boundaries
    of influence.

    More recently, however, Erdogan has increasingly sought to institute
    reforms that clamp down on individual rights and impose various
    aspects of Sharia - read fundamentalist Muslim - law. His latest
    attempts to outlaw public consumption of alcohol during late evening
    hours, along with similar harsh measures, were apparently the straw
    that broke the camel's (pardon the Middle East pun) back. Intense,
    boisterous riots ensued, with the common folk rising up to declare
    that they would not take these socially stifling measures lying down.

    Unsurprisingly, the obstinate Prime Minister reacted in a
    manner of regressive defiance, directing Turkey's riot police to
    unleash every weapon in their arsenal against the protestors. In
    addition to volleying rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas at the
    "had-it-up-to-here" citizens, the police arrested 70 lawyers who were
    marching in sympathy with the demonstrators. As the Wall Street Journal
    noted, this is all in sync with his troubling crackdowns of late. "The
    Prime Minister and his political allies have gone after media magnates,
    military officers, judges and journalists," the respected newspaper
    stated, "many of whom are behind bars on trumped-up terrorism and
    conspiracy charges."

    Moreover, it has been reliably reported that - rather than take
    hard-earned taxpayer dollars and use them to build cultural
    institutions that broaden the people's intellectual and artistic
    horizons - Erdogan has overseen the construction of approximately
    1700 mosques throughout the country. It seems he is willing to do
    anything to defy the people's wishes and shove as much hard-line
    Islamism down their throats as he possibly can.

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