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Last week, a passenger in an Istanbul bus checked messages on his smartphone. A seat neighbor Linste across, saw group name Daniel-The (Revolution Club) and a photo of PKK chief Öcalan-still on bus he summoned police. More interesting is case of 40-year-old truck driver Ali: He denounced his wife because in evening she insulted Erdoğan in front of television. To be believed, he took up her words and went to prosecutor. He said to press, "and if it were my far who insulted our president, I don't know a pardon."
Can Dündaris editor-in-chief of Internet platform Özgürüz. He is now writing for Us Weekly about crisis in Turkey.
From presidential palace fear of loss of power spills over to base, Denunziations flood makes neighbors and partners enemies and stirs up hatred in society. The president personally had asked to denounce. At a meeting of community leaders at end of 2016, Erdoğan had said: "You need to know who is in which house and report it to security forces. If a community head does not know, he does not fulfill his task properly. "
The Ministry of Interior immediately set up a denunziations hotline, "Information system for head of project". A network Denunzierender community head was created. The reports received by intelligence service increased five times. From previously around 2,000 denunciations a month were over 10,000. The police, who received 40,000 messages in three months following coup attempt, had to admit, however, that most were unfounded.
This article comes from time No. 10/2018. Here you can read entire output.Shortly after Erdoğan's appeal, a court clerk denounced a woman as a terrorist when she refused his marriage proposal. There was also a remarkable denunciation at Cumhuriyet, whose editor-in-chief I was for a while. The security guard heard canteen operator Şenol Buran say, "I don't get erdoğan any tea if he visits newspaper," and he promptly showed him. The next morning, Buran was arrested for "president insult" in his apartment.
A year ago, Ministry of Justice quantified number of lawsuits for insulting Erdoğan's on 3,658. Since n, number may have risen furr. Almost every criticism is answered by Erdoğan with an insult, and judges totally controlled by him overwhelm government critics with penalties.
From Turkish by Sabine Adatepe
Date Of Update: 04 March 2018, 12:03
