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Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven

posted by n1 on Monday May 15 2017, @11:09PM   
from the strong-and-stable-leadership dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Turkish police arrested the online editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper on Friday, an unidentified police official said.

Oguz Guven, the editor-in-chief of cumhuriyet.com.tr, was taken to Istanbul police headquarters, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.

The official said an arrest warrant was issued for Guven after the online edition published an article about the death of Mustafa Alper, the chief prosecutor of Denizli province, in southwest Turkey, who was killed in a car crash on Wednesday.

Early on Friday, Guven tweeted, "I am being taken into custody", without elaborating further.

Sigh. Poor Turkey.

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• regression to the mean regression to the mean (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:21AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:21AM (#510431)

  Turkey has long been an outlier in the Muslim world. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk established Turkey as a secular nation almost a century ago. Many years ago, Turkey was even more modern than much of the western world.

  Well, that was unusual. We'll miss it.

  Turkey's future is that of a typical Muslim nation. Do not be surprised by Sharia and all the rest. The non-Muslims, homosexuals, and adulterers (many actually rape victims) can expect death.

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• Re:regression to the mean (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:55AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:55AM (#511018)

  Atleast men will be able to marry adorable young girls.

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