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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies

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Turkey’s new Sunni Islamism matches history of totalitarianism – academic
The rise to supremacy of the political Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) is widely seen as coinciding with the regression of democracy and rise of totalitarianism. Yet it would be a mistake, political scientist and Ahval contributor Cengiz Aktar said in an academic article , to deduce from this that Islam is incompatible with democracy and a pluralistic society. “I’m tending to consider that Turkish failure has more to do with historical features of the polity than Islam’s alleged innate inadequacies,” Aktar said in his article, published in the January 2019 edition of Philosophy and Social Criticism journal. The Turkish attitude to Islam until the AKP period had, Aktar said, a “schizophrenic” quality, which emerged from a founding principle that placed the religion as “the single common denominator among the participants” of the new, secular nation envisioned by the republic’s founders. “The modus operandi obviously excluded the non-Muslim groups from the composition of the nation right from the beginning. Paradoxically it also excluded Muslim masses from the composition of the new nation by virtue of the principle of secularism or rather laicism, in a perfectly schizophrenic modus,” Aktar wrote. “In other words, Turkey today is precisely at a point where Islam is becoming finally its main identity: ‘nation’ and ‘Muslim’, merging finally as one and the same,” said the scholar. “Such completion of Islam’s nationalization both literally and figuratively opened up, on the same time the opportunity of its total instrumentalization.” This, he argues, has entailed Sunni homogenisation and corresponding demographic engineering to rid Turkey of ethnic or religious minorities “who don’t correspond to the redefined Sunni Turk,” mirroring the “dreadful precedent” set during the late Ottoman period, when minorities were massacred or expelled from Turkish territory. So, Aktar said, as in that period, today’s situation sees the country’s minorities being marginalised or forced out entirely. With as many as 3.5 million “obedient Sunni Syrian refugees” currently in Turkey, and many of these willing to stay on, the AKP regime has a large reserve of potential citizens to replace them with, the scholar added. “The Sunni homogenization is in full swing.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, meanwhile, has pushed “undemocratic political culture to its conceptual limits” through a “A representative system of government exclusively defined by holding elections – moreover, non-free and unfair – in an environment where participation, power sharing, governance, accountability, and transparency are inexistent.” The political group that gains the majority – in this case Erdoğan’s own “tribe” of Sunni Muslim voters, is allowed to rule at its own discretion, and Erdoğan has seized the Turkish judiciary and tied it to his political will to ensure it can do so. Yet this, Aktar said, is not a new situation but a development of the system in place in the “Old Turkey” that preceded the AKP’s rule. “‘Political law’ finds its essence in westernized Old Turkey’s political customs that excludes the majority, whereas its present-day nemesis excludes all kind of minorities and cultural diversities,” he said. Consequently, Erdoğan has mustered an “overwhelming mass of followers” that shows “totalitarian features,” with which the president is able to communicate “in plain Turkish packed with quick fixes, in line with (their) level of education.” “It looks as though the New Turkey project, as defined and conveyed by the regime through a sense of Sunni Islamist belonging, matches, and legitimizes the expectations of a totalitarian behavior nurturing at the social level,” Aktar said. All these features of the AKP’s rule, however, have their roots in prior periods of Turkish history, from the absolutist Ottoman sultan Abdulhamit II and the Jacobinist Young Turks who preceded the switch to a republic, to the totalitarian aspects of the Armenian and Syriac genocides of 1915-1916. The “failure of Turkish political Islam and the simultaneous rise of totalitarianism seem to have to do with an abortive social contract unqualified for accepting the peaceful antagonisms of various ethnic, religious, and social groups,” Aktar said. “Regardless the ideology underneath, Turkish homo politicus is against power sharing, devolution, and pluralism. He is keen of justice only if that justice is for the followers of his asabiyya. He is keen to preserve the ‘master-obedient servant’ relation, worships a radical nationalism, and be predisposed to violence ... Overall, he is not prone to democracy and pluralism,” he said. Source: Ahval News
Exiled Turks see Greece as post-coup stopover
By Nikolas Birbari The new Turkish arrivals moving about the central areas of Athens are easily distinguished from the countless migrants from Syria and Afghanistan who have poured into the country in recent years.

They live in regular apartments, not refugee camps, and have relatively comfortable lives. Among them are lawyers, doctors, engineers and authors.

After Turkey’s failed coup of July 2016, thousands of Turks fled to Greece, and the vast majority now call either Athens or the country’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, home.

Many have been accused of membership in the Gülen movement, a religious group led by cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating the failed coup.

The Turkish government has arrested some 77,000 people over links to Gülen, while another 150,000 civil servants, military personnel and others have been sacked from the government as part of Ankara’s ongoing crackdown on groups they say pose a threat to the country. Those Ankara has accused of links to Gülen may not even be safe abroad, dozens of alleged Gülen members around the world have been arrested and deported back to Turkey.

Ten years ago, it was rare to hear Turkish on the streets of Athens. But today, Turks are often seen roaming the streets of the Greek capital.

Ahval News caught up with some of these Turks, who requested their full names be withheld out of fear for what their families in Turkey may face. They all rejected the charge of membership in a terrorist organisation and expressed concerns about Ankara’s broad crackdown on Turkish citizens.

Some said they were targeted for having bank accounts with Bank Asya, a Turkish bank affiliated with the Gülen movement that the government shut down following the failed coup. Others said they had sent their children to a Gülen-linked school, which numbered in the thousands in Turkey before the coup attempt.

Some Turks now in Greece had worked for Gülen-connected media outlets. Before July 2016, many newspapers, magazines and broadcast stations in Turkey were affiliated with the movement.

Alp was told police were searching for him due to a newspaper he worked for, and attempted to leave the country with his family. Authorities confiscated his passport at the airport, so he found a way to cross the Evros River and reached Greece illegally with his family. They turned themselves into the Greek police upon arrival.

Even at that time, despite being in police custody in a foreign country, Alp said he felt free and liberated, having left the troubles of Turkey behind him.

Thessaloniki is home to roughly 4000 Turks, according to a non-profit organisation that works with migrants. An official with the organisation told Ahval that most Turks in Thessaloniki are not looking to stay in Greece, but are hoping to reach northern European countries, where they expect to find greater opportunity.

Greek officials do not keep Turkish families in Thessaloniki with migrant families from third world countries, the official explained, but instead under “more civilised conditions”.

Melih, a Turk living in Thessaloniki, said that Turks who make it across the Evros are kept in detention for two days, then taken to a special section in migrant camps.

“After giving their statements, they are given a temporary residence permit which stipulates that they must leave the country within six months if they don’t apply for political asylum with the asylum commission during that time,’’ Melih said.

Alex, a Greek lawyer who works as a consultant for Turkish migrants, has had some difficulty helping Turks, who often do not wish to apply for asylum in Greece.

“They are demanding to leave to countries such as Germany and Switzerland,” said Alex, pointing out that they have neither passports nor visas.

“They have the status of illegal migrants. But they are looking for their right for asylum in another country. What they can do in this case is leave Greece illegally. And this is very dangerous,’’ said Alex.

There are those who say they chose Greece not because they are in trouble or face any risks, but because the neighbouring country is like  Turkey but not authoritarian. Ömer moved to Athens because he says he sensed a growing sense of unease in his hometown, Istanbul.

“Turkey was heading towards Islamisation and human rights were being clearly and openly violated,” he said.

Source: Ahval News

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ECtHR Convicts Turkey for ‘Aggravated Life Imprisonment
The ECtHR has again convicted Turkey in an appeal made against the legal practice stipulating that the convicts who have been sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment shall serve time in prison without a possibility of being released. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has again convicted Turkey for the "aggravated life imprisonment without a possibility of release." Announcing its judgement on Civan Boltan, a convict with disabilities, the ECtHR has concluded that Turkey has violated the prohibition of torture and ill treatment as per the Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court has ruled that Turkey shall pay 1,500 Euro (approx. 9,000 Turkish Lira) to Boltan for court expenses.

"His health doesn't necessitate a stay of execution"

28-year-old Civan Boltan, who is currently held in Bolu Prison, was injured in 2012 while he was trying to throw a bomb at a group of soldiers. His arm was amputated and he lost the sight in his left eye after that. In 2014, he was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in the lawsuit filed against him for "being a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)." His sentence was then upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals. In February 2015, Boltan requested the adaptation of his prison conditions to his disability, asking not to be placed in an individual cell as specified in his sentence, so that he could be helped by fellow prisoners in his everyday life. Two medical reports confirmed that his state of health necessitated the assistance of others, but not a stay of execution of his sentence. His request was rejected in October 2015 by the judge responsible for the sentence enforcement, and dismissed by the heavy penal court. On 11 December, 2015, Boltan appealed to the Constitutional Court on the ground of the incompatibility of his conditions of arrest with his disability. After the Constitutional Court dismissed his appeal on May 18, 2016 as being out of time, Boltan applied to the ECtHR.

Same verdict given by ECtHR before

In his application to the ECtHR, Boltan stated that his placement in an individual cell amounted to inhuman treatment in view of his disability, and that the enforcement of a prison sentence for the rest of his life was incompatible with the provisions of the Article 3 of the ECHR. In his judgement announced, the ECtHR concluded that while Boltan's conditions of arrest do not violate the Article 3 of the ECHR, the related article has still been violated "as regards the complaint related to the irreducible nature of the aggravated life imprisonment sentence." It was in 2014 that the ECtHR gave the same verdict on an application regarding aggravated life imprisonment without any hope of release for the first time. This verdict was given in an application submitted by PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. The court also gave the same verdict in cases of Gurban v. Turkey and Kaytan v. Turkey in 2015. According to the ECtHR, a life-long prison service is not a violation of rights while the lack of a mechanism to evaluate the sentence is a violation. (AS/SD) Source: Bianet
ECtHR Convicts Turkey for ‘Aggravated Life Imprisonment
The ECtHR has again convicted Turkey in an appeal made against the legal practice stipulating that the convicts who have been sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment shall serve time in prison without a possibility of being released. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has again convicted Turkey for the "aggravated life imprisonment without a possibility of release." Announcing its judgement on Civan Boltan, a convict with disabilities, the ECtHR has concluded that Turkey has violated the prohibition of torture and ill treatment as per the Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court has ruled that Turkey shall pay 1,500 Euro (approx. 9,000 Turkish Lira) to Boltan for court expenses.

"His health doesn't necessitate a stay of execution"

28-year-old Civan Boltan, who is currently held in Bolu Prison, was injured in 2012 while he was trying to throw a bomb at a group of soldiers. His arm was amputated and he lost the sight in his left eye after that. In 2014, he was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in the lawsuit filed against him for "being a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)." His sentence was then upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals. In February 2015, Boltan requested the adaptation of his prison conditions to his disability, asking not to be placed in an individual cell as specified in his sentence, so that he could be helped by fellow prisoners in his everyday life. Two medical reports confirmed that his state of health necessitated the assistance of others, but not a stay of execution of his sentence. His request was rejected in October 2015 by the judge responsible for the sentence enforcement, and dismissed by the heavy penal court. On 11 December, 2015, Boltan appealed to the Constitutional Court on the ground of the incompatibility of his conditions of arrest with his disability. After the Constitutional Court dismissed his appeal on May 18, 2016 as being out of time, Boltan applied to the ECtHR.

Same verdict given by ECtHR before

In his application to the ECtHR, Boltan stated that his placement in an individual cell amounted to inhuman treatment in view of his disability, and that the enforcement of a prison sentence for the rest of his life was incompatible with the provisions of the Article 3 of the ECHR. In his judgement announced, the ECtHR concluded that while Boltan's conditions of arrest do not violate the Article 3 of the ECHR, the related article has still been violated "as regards the complaint related to the irreducible nature of the aggravated life imprisonment sentence." It was in 2014 that the ECtHR gave the same verdict on an application regarding aggravated life imprisonment without any hope of release for the first time. This verdict was given in an application submitted by PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. The court also gave the same verdict in cases of Gurban v. Turkey and Kaytan v. Turkey in 2015. According to the ECtHR, a life-long prison service is not a violation of rights while the lack of a mechanism to evaluate the sentence is a violation. (AS/SD)
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A good website should be easy to navigateCreating visual rhythms in your layoutsElements that can help website visual compositionDiving into UX and UI designBreaking down the barriers

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A good website should be easy to navigate

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