TURKEY: Retrograding to unknown times in the fast lane!
1. A guy who got pepper sprayed, even though he told the police that he had asthma, died. His family also got pepper sprayed by the police, because they wanted to protest their son’s death.
2. The Minister of Health declared that “the state will take care of the baby of a woman who is raped. “she should give birth to it” we are told by the government.
”3. The Minister further declared that the new bill proposal on banning abortion will be presented to the parliament in June.
4. The new law banning the right to strike to airline workers just passed.
5. 150 Turkish Airlines employees were fired because they went on strike.
6. Tobacco and alcohol prices were raised by %15.
7. The police force switched to using iron batons.
8. An investigation was started regarding 103 lawyers who defended pro-Kurdish activists, politicians, journalists, academics, students in the recent “KCK” case.
9. Esra Arsan, associate professor at Bilgi University, was fired because of allegedly using “terror supporting language” on her academic article.
10. The Minister of Health declared that the liberty for abortion is a product of the military coup in 1980, therefore we must get rid of it.
11. 12 people are pressed for charges for the negative comments they made on facebook about the Prime Minister’s abortion ‘discussion’.
12.The office of the chief public prosecutor has sent a report to the Ministry of Justice to remove the privilege of immunity of 8 oppositional deputy members.
13. The President signed the law on ‘Urban Transformation’, a polite name for gentrification and money making under the pretense of securing earthquake-safe buildings.
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