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For those who know anything about the system in Turkey, this is a far from
surprising development. The long-term way the system has operated there is
much like the way the USA and other countries would be if the repressive
trajectory after September 11 were maintained steadily for years. But
repression in Turkey owes a lot to Western support anyway.
Steve K.
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>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:59:58 EST
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> By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent
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>24 January 2002Noam Chomsky, one of America's greatest philosophers and
>linguists, has become the target of Turkey's chief of "terrorism
>prosecution".Scarcely two months after the European Union praised Turkey
>for
>passing new laws protecting freedom of expression, the authorities in
>Ankara
>are using anti-terrorism legislation to prosecute Mr Chomsky's Turkish
>publisher.Fatih Tas of the Aram Publishing House faces a year in prison for
>daring to print American Interventionism, a collection of Mr Chomsky's
>recent
>essays including harsh criticism of Turkey's treatment of its Kurdish
>minority.Mr Chomsky, a linguistics professor at Harvard, is planning to fly
>to Turkey for Mr Tas's first court appearance on 13 February and has
>already
>written to the offices of the United Nations high commissioner for human
>rights, pointing out that amendments to Turkish law were supposed to have
>provided greater freedom of expression, not less.Mr Chomsky plans to visit
>the Turkish city of Diyarbakir to meet Kurdish "activists" and it will be a
>test of Turkey's freedoms to see if he is allowed to visit the area.In one
>of
>his essays, originally a university lecture, he says that "the Kurds have
>been miserably oppressed throughout the whole history of the modern Turkish
>state ... In 1984, the Turkish government launched a major war in the
>south-east against the Kurdish population ... The end result was pretty
>awesome: tens of thousands of people killed, two to three million refugees,
>massive ethnic cleansing with some 3,500 villages destroyed."This,
>according
>to the Turks, constitutes an incitement to violence. Mr Chomsky has been
>suitably outraged, regarding the trial as part of a much broader wave of
>repression directed against Kurds appealing for greater use of the Kurdish
>language. Bekir Rayif Aldemyr, Turkey's chief prosecutor, claims that the
>Chomsky essay "propagates separatism".A spiky, inexhaustible academic of
>Jewish origin who has been an inveterate critic of Israel and especially of
>the United States, Mr Chomsky's condemnation of Turkey's treatment of the
>Kurds – and of the vast arms shipments made to Turkey by the United
>States –
>was bound to enrage Ankara.Mr Chomsky describes the prosecution as "a very
>severe attack on the most elementary human and civil rights". The EU, so
>impressed by those changes in Turkish law last November, has remained
>silent.
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>HREF="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=116073";>Click
>here: Independent News
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