Reports reveal Erdogan’s suppression of the Turkish media…after Egypt seized one of the Ankara Related electronic committees

Ali Rajab

The Turkish regime came out to rant freely in freedom of opinion and expression, after seizing one of the illegal Turkish electronic media committees in Egypt.

This came at a time Turkey closes dozens of newspapers and arrests hundreds of journalists.

Counselor Ahmed Hafez, Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed Egypt’s rejection, in whole and in detail, of what was stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and other Turkish statements regarding the legal measures taken by the Egyptian authorities in dealing with one of the illegal electronic media committees in Egypt.

Hafez said that illegal electronic media committee worked under The cover of a company founded by elements of the terrorist Brotherhood with the support of Turkey.

He also added that it spread false and fabricated information about the political, economic, security and legal conditions in Egypt, and send them to Turkey, in an attempt to discredit the country internally and internationally.

Hafez added that shame on turkey to have an advanced position globally in the rates of imprisonment of journalists, and it is due to be ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the Freedom of the Press Index for 2019, where the statements of nearly 682 journalists in Turkey during the period from November 2018 to March 2019 were canceled, according to many relevant reports.

The famous writer and social security expert Ali Tazal, through his account on Twitter said that, “I am being arrested Now, I don’t know why” it was by the anti-terrorist forces of the Istanbul Security Directorate.

The Turkish authorities released him again, after a few hours of his arrest, as part of investigations by supporters of the service movement carried out by the Istanbul Prosecution, despite the man’s reputation for his left-wing liberal ideas.

The arrest of journalist Ali is still not the first of its kind in Turkey, but the arrests of journalists and writers continue one after another; the CPJ confirms in its 2019 report that Turkey ranks second in the world in the list of countries with the most detention of journalists, after China First place; however, Turkey will have shared its first place with China by arresting journalist Ali Tazal.

The report prepared by the committee, which is based in the US state of New York, described Turkey and China as the “largest prison for journalists around the world”, noting that Turkey is taking the lead in the world in this regard, not for one year, but for three years.

According to several human rights reports, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued decisions to close more than 100 news channels, and fired several journalists.

The Committee to Protect Journalists also clarified in its report that the Turkish government issued decisions to shut down more than 100 news channels, and detailed several journalists, and said in its report: “As for journalists who have not been imprisoned in Turkey until now, they are either currently on trial or have resorted to Courts of Cassation and Appeals appeal against decisions issued against them, while many decisions were issued in absentia against many of those who reside outside the country, while placing them on lists waiting to arrive to arrest them upon arrival in Turkey.

The committee also clarified that the basic activities and events of the press workers are considered by the judiciary in Turkey as evidence of conviction, stressing that the journalists who are being tried are not subject to a fair trial.

Tampering with the press was not far from the President of the Republic and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he realized before the fake coup drama, which he himself was his imaginary hero, that he would not be able to reach his goal by increasing repression and pressure. Erdogan resorted to making changes in the country’s system through the plot he hatched in agreement with the deep state against the Turkish armed forces.

Erdogan, who runs the country with the system of political Islam, has turned Turkey into an open prison. Even all his successes since he came to power in 2003 and until 2011, have gone with the wind, and he seems to have recovered them again.

As for the ruling Justice and Development Party, which is now dominated by fear of the specter of losing future electoral benefits, it wants its empire to continue to intimidate and intimidate by arresting the remaining opposition journalists who are counting on the fingers.