President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken control of six churches in the war-torn southeastern city of Diyarbakir in his latest move to squash freedom of speech and religious movement.
The state-sanctioned seizure is just the latest in a number of worrying developments to come out of increasingly hardline Turkey, which is in advanced talks with the EU over visa-free travel for its 80 million citizens.
Included in the seizures are Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches, one of which is over 1,700 years old.
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This is our future, if present trends continue here in the FUSA. There are plenty of various groups that would be delighted to see all Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches seized as state property and closed down.
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DeleteSure wish Putin would have bombed the Hell out of Turkey.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking similar thoughts. :)
DeleteI have long contended that if anyone wants to see an example of a contemporary (modern is clearly the wrong word) fascist state they need loom no farther than the revived Ottoman Empire. Make no mistake, that is Erdogon goal.
ReplyDeleteI am sure.
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