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| The Grand Turk |
| US-based Turkish journalist faces libel investigation for book on Obama and Erdogan |
| 2015-06-23 |
| [THEGUARDIAN] The Washington correspondent of a major Turkish newspaper has said he is under investigation for libel and allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... in what may be ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's latest crackdown on media coverage critical of the authorities. Tolga Tanis, a Washington-based news hound with the Hurriyet newspaper, said on Sunday he faced an investigation by the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office after Erdogan's lawyer filed a petition accusing him of libel and attempting to undermine the president's reputation in his book Potus and the Gentleman. Published in March, the book examines relations between Washington and Ankara with a focus on President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... -- "Potus" is an acronym for "president of the United States" -- and Erdogan, sometimes called "the Gentleman" by supporters. "I am critical of both Erdogan and Obama on several issues," Tanis said. "Though I don't think that Obama is considering suing me for this book." Rooters was unable to reach the prosecutor's office or Erdogan's lawyer for comment. In what opponents see as part of a campaign to muzzle dissent, Erdogan has repeatedly berated news outlets including the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and Hurriyet, while a prosecutor last month sought to shut two television stations seen as opposed to the government on terrorism-related charges. Erdogan rejects the notion that Turkey, which languishes near the bottom of international press freedom tables, has anything but a free media, declaring in January that Turkish journalists were freer than any in Europe. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Though I don't think that Obama is considering suing me for this book." Don't bet on it, Tolga. Also, keep an eye on the IRS and the DoJ....oh and the EPA too. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-06-23 08:43 |