Environmental activist Özkan Arslan was found guilty of “membership in a terrorist organization,” an accusation that the Turkish government uses for any or all opposition these days. Turkish judicial system and courts are under the direct order of the government, and the entire government is run by one-person rule, that of AKP ruling party’s head, Erdoğan
Environmental activist Özkan Arslan was found guilty of “membership in a terrorist organization,” an accusation that the Turkish government uses for any or all opposition these days. Turkish judicial system and courts are under the direct order of the government, and the entire government is run by one-person rule, that of AKP ruling party’s head, Erdoğan.
After running the country’s treasury to ruins, the only way to stay afloat for the Turkish regime is to sell off and privatize what belongs to the people. And those places or wealth that tops the privatization and sell-off list are government-owned enterprises, natural resources, forests, shores, shipyards, mountains, rivers, and whatever is not nailed to the ground.
Fighting against the environmental damage caused in his local region, a local activist, Özkan Arslan, a member of Munzur Environmental Association, received the 6-year 3-month sentence because he participated in May 1st celebrations and the poems he wrote in his social media posts. Under the direct chain of command of the government by all accounts, the courts have decided that Mr. Arslan was a member of a terrorist organization because he also participated in the past in actions to protect the environment and was banned from entering his village.
Many environmental, human rights, and social justice organizations condemned the seemingly trumped-up decision by an administration that has put its entire energy into silencing all opposition. Yesterday The Unity of Ecology Association also condemned the biased decision with a press release.
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