Why Bülent Mumay in Turkey threatens three years in jail | EUROtoday

In der Türkei sind wir in Erdoğans gigantischem Topf 85 Millionen Frösche. Das Wasser im Topf erhitzte sich langsam, sodass die meisten von uns nicht merkten, was für ein Ende sie erwartete. Als es aber immer weiter auf den Siedepunkt zuging, wurde so manchem die Gefahr bewusst. Und als die Anzahl jener, die nicht im kochenden Wasser umkommen wollten, größer wurde, wallten beim Palastregime Glut und Wut umso stärker auf. Seit Anfang des Jahres erleben wir diese Allegorie in der Türkei wie hier geschildert.

Nach der brutalen Niederschlagung der Gezi-Proteste 2013 hatte Erdoğan das Land in einen autoritären Hafen gesteuert. Dass er jetzt noch einen Schritt zulegt, kommt nicht von ungefähr. Keine einzige Maßnahme, mit der er versucht hatte, die für ihn persönlich wie auch für seine Partei schwindende Unterstützung wieder zu erhöhen, verfing. Die Vorstöße zur Beseitigung der Wirtschaftskrise bewirkten das Gegenteil. Während die monatliche Inflation im Dezember sich um ein Prozent erhöht hatte, kletterte sie im Januar um fünf Punkte. Das für 2025 ausgegebene Ziel für die jährliche Inflationsrate musste gleich im ersten Monat angepasst werden. Die Anzahl der Firmenpleiten verdoppelte sich gegenüber den Pandemiejahren. Im Januar wurden so viele Insolvenzen angemeldet wie nie zuvor.

It was only in January that the minimum wage, at which 60 percent of the workers were condemned, was raised, but was already below the poverty line after the month. 30 million of the 85 million frogs, sorry, citizens, live below the hunger threshold. The religious authority announced that the ritual gift of alms for needy in Ramadan should be donated to pensioners and low wages. The 85 million hits the mark that poverty is intensifying as you indulge in luxury in the palace. When a boy was saved out of a fire last week and added to an ambulance, a television camera caught his stuffing words from him: “Please don’t go to the hospital, mom has no money.”

The circumstances continued to crumble the votes for the palace regime, so one took a step. First of all, a “legal” floor should be prepared for the elimination of people who could be dangerous as rivals. With the support of his right -wing extremist alliance partner MHP, Erdoğan brought a law through parliament. The state control council, which is subordinate to the Presidential Palace, may in future remove anyone who is “in the public service” with out the courtroom resolution of his workplace. Mayor in addition to skilled associations are within the public service.

Erdoğan subsequently will get the deal with of relying on opposition mayors or the administration of knowledgeable affiliation. All opinion polls present two people who find themselves within the race for the presidency earlier than Erdoğan: the CHP mayors of Ankara and Istanbul, Mansur Yavaş and Ekrem Imamoğlu. With the brand new regulation, Erdoğan can boot these two by bringing them in reference to a corruption case.

Now Erdoğan has this regulation, however in any other case doesn’t go away his destiny to probability. Ekrem Imamoğlu had succeeded in taking Istanbul, which Erdoğan as soon as dominated as a mayor, the celebration to drop some weight after 25 years. Now he’s stricting a course of after the opposite in opposition to the CHP politician. Erdoğan had used the chief prosecutor with the nickname “Mobile Guillotine” in Istanbul to behave in opposition to the opposition. Because Imamoğlu criticized it, a 3rd process in opposition to him was initiated. Seven years in jail are required as a result of he allegedly threatened the chief prosecutor. Processes in opposition to Imamoğlu are actually operating that would deliver him to jail for 17 years. If the judiciary modeled by the palace, the charismatic rival of Erdoğan’s in jail, he’s banned from politics.

A small be aware: The palace doesn’t simply attempt to press Imamoğlu with processes, it additionally makes unusual claims to be associated to terrorism. Imamoğlu had reacted to the clasp of his particular person and all the opposition by the palace judiciary with a brecht quote: “One cannot save himself / none or everyone.” When the strains turned the slogan in opposition to the regime, Erdoğan defined: “This is The slogan of terrorist organizations. ”Lines written by Brecht against the Nazi regime are equated with terrorism in this country. Not enough with it, last week the palace regime made another advance. The public prosecutor initiated investigations because the party congress of opposition leader CHP was supposedly “uncertain” in November 2023. Behind it is a simple reason: In the local elections after this party congress, on which a new chairman was elected, the CHP of selling Erdoğan’s AKP party from first place after 23 years.

On the one hand, the regime tries to paralyze the institutional organization with the compulsion of the judiciary, on the other it increases threat rhetoric to prevent people from walking onto the street. At an event in which Erdoğan took part, the chairman of the opposition’s AKP youth organization threatened: “If you are taking to the road once more, you’ll be coping with us.” A few days after this threat, Erdoğan’s alliance partner Devlet Bahçeli: ” It is evident to us that the calls to take to the road and to withstand, are invites to coup or rebellion. Only go on the road you probably have the braveness! “

The palace regime still holds a number of intellectuals, including human rights activists Osman Kavala, in prison because they allegedly organized the 2013 Gezi protests and thus had an attempt to coup to fall by the government. In order to prevent renewed demonstrations and convert the Gezi protests into a weapon to produce fear, there was a warning shot to the media. The palace justice initiated a procedure to determine which media institutions had supported the demonstrations in 2013 and to take the responsible persons in court. Immediately afterwards, Erdoğan said in relation to the media: “Anyone who pretends to be blissful, after all runs in opposition to the wall!” And the wall is not far away from us, one blow followed.

A raid was carried out at the broadcaster Halk TV because he had sent an interview with the man who had been used as an expert by the palace justice in all the procedures directed against the opposition. Four journalists were arrested in no time. Three were released again, but received a ban on exit. The editor -in -chief had to go to prison. Three leading editors of a opposition newspaper are in custody because they had reported on a meeting between the editor -in -chief of a government -related newspaper with the general prosecutor known as the “mobile guillotine”. The head of the state broadcasting supervision RTÜK announced, reports “who appeared that there was nothing constructive within the nation”, had been prohibited.

In this blow against the media, I also got my fat away. Masak’s financial supervision found that a state bank that had washed money from an Ankara -imprisoned mafia boss granted a loan of around 18 million euros. The report on this was included in the indictment of the mafia procedure. Because I have reported about it, I am accused of having damaged the call of the state bank. I was ordered for the hearing. If you are guilty, I threaten three years in prison.

A state bank awarded the lending, the state found it out, and the state judiciary takes action against the scandal. However, once again a journalist has to pay for it. What a madness, isn’t it? But even more insane things happen in this country. An astrologer was arrested because after the heart surgery of Erdoğan’s alliance partner Devlet Bahçeli she announced that he would no longer experience the election. The actress Melisa Sözen was invited to hear because she had portrayed a Kurdish activist of the YPG in a French TV series in 2016, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, she is accused of propaganda for a terrorist organization. If this continues, no actor will want to take on the role of the murderer in a thriller. Otherwise, ten years later, the murder commission may knock on him.

From the Turkish of Sabine Adatepe.