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Title: Gunshots heard as hostage deadline passes after left-wing group take Turkish prosecutor prisoner and warn they will kill him if police do not confess to killing boy on live TV
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -not-confess-live-TV-hour.html
Published: Mar 31, 2015
Author: John Hall
Post Date: 2015-03-31 09:36:13 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 4214
Comments: 14
A far-left Turkish group has taken an Istanbul prosecutor hostage and threatened to kill him within the hour unless police confess to killing a teenage boy. The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front published disturbing photographs of terrified prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz with a gun to his head on their official Facebook page. The deadline passed at 3.36pm local time (12.35pm GMT) and two gunshots were heard. The prosecutor is leading an investigation into the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan who was severely wounded after being hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer during anti-government protests in Istanbul in June 2013. After spending 269 days in a coma, Elvan eventually died on March 11 last year. Threat: The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front published disturbing photographs of the terrified prosecutor with a gun to his head on their official Facebook page Horror: The prosecutor is leading an investigation into the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan Television footage showed special forces officers entering the building and courthouse officials being escorted out. Gunfire was subsequently heard at the Istanbul courthouse where prosecutor Kiraz was working, the Dogan news agency reported said. In a statement published by Turkish media, the hostage taking was claimed by the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, which has been behind a string of recent attacks. The group published pictures showing one of the militants - his face concealed by a scarf with the group's red and yellow insignia - holding a gun to Kiraz's head. They had also plastered their flags and posters on the walls of his office. Turkish media said that the group had given a deadline of 3:36 pm (13.36 BST) for the prosecutor to identify the police officers who they say were behind the killing of Elvan or he would be shot. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with the current and former interior and justice ministers at the ruling AK Party headquarters in Ankara to discuss the hostage taking, officials in his office said. The DHKP-C said on its website it wanted the police officer it blames for Elvan's death to 'confess' on television, the officers involved to be tried in 'people's courts', and charges against those who attended protests for Elvan to be dropped. Innocent: Berkin was on his way to buy bread during anti-government street protests when he was struck in the head by a high-velocity gas canister Strength of feeling: Elvan has since become an icon for the Turkish far-left and his supporters accuse the authorities of covering up the circumstances and perpetrators of his death The DHKP-C blames the ruling AK Party for the killing of 15-year-old Elvan, who died last March after nine months in a coma from a head wound sustained in anti-government protests. Elvan succumbed to injuries sustained when he was hit by a tear gas canister fired by police in the mass protests of early summer 2013 against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was then premier. He was aged 15 at the time of his death, which was followed by mass nationwide protests that were also largely put down by the police. Elvan has since become an icon for the Turkish far-left and his supporters accuse the authorities of covering up the circumstances and perpetrators of his death. The United States, European Union and Turkey list the DHKP-C as a terrorist organisation. It was behind a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in 2013. In 2001, two policemen and an Australian tourist died in a DHKP-C attack in central Istanbul.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Woh, actual Commies flying flags with the hammer and sickle. It's like a bad Seventies acid flashback.
Just propaganda, trying to get the populace at large to think they care for them more than anybody else does. Hopefully the populace has figured out they have a lot to lose if the Far Left takes over, can you say “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
This is a new one on me.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Do any women in Turkey wear a burkha? Most of them don't even seem to wear a hijab much. Like the female soldiers and female police. Turkey is not Arab so they aren't as stupid and backward as Arabs.
And hopefully they won't "regress" back to those days, which is where some there would like to take the country. "Most" of the women there wear western style clothes, only some of the older women would wear the older traditional clothing. In fact I don't remember seeing a burka when I was there. I spent most of my time in Ankara but did take some tours around the country to see things like the Underground cities. http://sometimes-interesting.com/2014/05/09/derinkuyu-the-underground-cities-of- cappadocia/ The large circular stone on the left would seal off the entrance in case of attack. IIRC they was one at the entrance to each level and some cities were 20 levels deep or so.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Those underground cities specials feature some of the Turkish finds. I can only assume that many more remain to be discovered. The largest known apparently held over 20,000 people and their livestock. Seems almost unimaginable. As would be the smell of the place. : ) I disliked this one because it has the "Ancient Aliens" kooks in it. But I liked the vids. There was another 42 minute documentary from the Secret Underground series that was somewhat better but I can't find it on YouBoob.
As you can see in this picture there are air shafts that run from the bottom all the way to the surface. Which I would imagine being used for ventilation and raising/lowering larger items in/out of the city.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Ah yes Giorgio Tsoukalos, I see him a lot on TV especially when it comes to Ancient Aliens.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Good grief, you actually know the name of the Chief Kook. : ) An interesting set of photos as he descended into Kookery.
I've only seen him since he went with the electrocuted look. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
The guy on the far left looks top be another person than the aliens guy. Maybe it is KD Lang....
Easy to make fun of him as he drives away in his Lamborghini, laughing all the way to the bank.
#2. To: cranky (#0)
Strength of feeling: Elvan has since become an icon for the Turkish far-left and his supporters accuse the authorities of covering up the circumstances and perpetrators of his death
#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
It's like a bad Seventies acid flashback.
#4. To: CZ82 (#2)
#5. To: cranky (#3)
#6. To: TooConservative (#4)
(Edited)
Turkey is not Arab so they aren't as stupid and backward as Arabs.
#7. To: CZ82 (#6)
(Edited)
I spent most of my time in Ankara but did take some tours around the country to see things like the Underground cities.
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
I can only assume that many more remain to be discovered. The largest known apparently held over 20,000 people and their livestock. Seems almost unimaginable. As would be the smell of the place. : )
#9. To: TooConservative (#7)
#10. To: CZ82 (#9)
Giorgio Tsoukalos
#11. To: TooConservative (#10)
#12. To: TooConservative (#10)
(Edited)
#13. To: CZ82 (#11)
#14. To: Pericles, CZ82 (#12)
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