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Twitter account of Turkish PM’s top adviser hacked, messages left against Berkin Elvan’s death
A group of Turkish hackers have hacked the official Twitter account of Mustafa Varank, who is a top political advisers of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Hackers defaced the Twitter account, posting messages and images in solidarity with the protests in memory of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old teenager who died March 11 after being in a coma for 269 days due to a head injury caused by a teargas canister during the Gezi protests in Istanbul.

Elvan’s portrait left on Turkish PM’s adviser’s twitter account

Hurriyet Daily News reports that hackers changed the background image of Mustafa Varank’s Twitter account to Elvan’s portrait, posting messages which referred to Erdoğan as Elvan’s “murderer.”
- “We know who Elvan’s killer is,” read one of the messages, which also contained a picture of Erdoğan with the inscription “I gave the instructions to the police.”
Varank, one of the most active users of Twitter among Erdoğan’s advisers, recovered his account a few hours later. After regaining his account, Varank tweeted that:
- “After voyeurism, montage and blackmail, they have also started to steal accounts. I think I have succeeded to get my account back. I apologize to my followers.”
Before being hacked, Varank had posted several pictures from the southeastern cities of Bingöl and Bitlis, where Erdoğan held separate rallies.

Protests were staged across Turkey over Elvan’s death during a night reminiscent of the nationwide Gezi protests.

hackread.com, 12 March 2014
March 12, 2014
HEY YOU! HEY ERDOĞAN!

HEY YOU! HEY ERDOĞAN!

UNNATURAL BORN SERIAL KILLER

(11 March 2014)

“It is not Allah who has taken my son away. It is Erdoğan.”
15 year-old Berkin Elvan’s mother

HEY YOU!

Yes, you! You, standing there scowling, fouling the planet’s air with your rancid words. Yes, you, the menace! You, the monster! You, the liar! You, the thief! You, the bully! You, the perverter of morals! You, the traitor! You, the killer!

Yes, you and your infamous henchmen, Gül and Gülen. Yes, the three of you who share the same twisted, corrupt, un-watchable face. Your henchmen have the overwhelming ignorance, the stupendous arrogance to express condolences about your murder of 15 year-old Berkin Elvan, your eighth innocent victim. Yes, you, the big shot who gives all the orders. You had this boy shot with a tear gas canister. And you did your dirty business through one of your stooges in Gülen’s police force. Killers!

So yes, I’m talking to you. And I’m talking to your other hack allies, Gül and Gülen. You three collaborators in the destruction of our nation have neither the moral standing nor the necessary trace of humanity to say one syllable about the heinous crime done to this peaceful boy. Such dim-witted arrogance! Why today, the day of Berkin’s death, your same fascist cops wantonly attacked people walking in peaceful protest over his killing, and in overflowing disgust with you, his murderer. This happened all over Turkey. Have you no shame? You attack mourners? Tomorrow, will you attack the boy’s corpse? Have you no, no….anything?

And I’m also talking to all your other hacks, too numerous to mention but not too numerous to find and punish, for you all will be found and punished. Your Nazi-inspired criminal police force will pay a sublime price for their violent crimes against the people. As will your craven judges who so fouled the halls of justice with their feeble-minded decisions. And I’m talking to all the ones who implement your beastly orders that destroy our people and our nation. You know who they are. And so do we. The ones that bow and scrape the floor, the ones that think you’re so smart and tell you so all day, every day. And I’m talking to your bosses, the puppeteers that brought all of you here. We know where they are too.

We have you all numbered, you see. And we already know how it will end. Here’s a hint. It already has.

You all thought you were so smart, being backed by America and all. But you knew nothing, except how to steal, and lie, and cheat, and kill. What’s that? You think otherwise? Hah! Look at the nation. Look at America. Look at the world. Look at your faces.

James (Cem) Ryan
Istanbul
11 March 2014

Brightening Glance:

March 12, 2014
Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatening to ban Facebook, YouTube

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatens a ban on YouTube and Facebook to stop political foes posting what he says are ”fabricated” audio recordings, but the President says a closure is out of the question.

March 10, 2014
THE SICK JOKE

“Hegel observes somewhere that all great incidents and individuals of world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1851)

Oh fabulous farce, the art of the improbable, the exaggerated, the ludicrous, the bizarre, the brazen and often the stupid, the essence of what Turks once called democracy, a word they dare not now pronounce. Still, aren’t we all so lucky to be living in Turkey? Sure we are. Turkey, the land of politicians that plunder while they pray, ludicrously lie without blushing and murder and maim the nation’s youth. Turkey, once brimming with hope, now the land of hopelessness. Still…aren’t we happy, happy, happy? Of course we are. Therefore aren’t we stupid? Of course we…. next question, please.

Forget your troubles! Get happy! Allah, Yahweh and Jesus all love you! Why the other night the commanding general of the world’s largest, best trained and best armed terrorist group was released from jail. He was lucky. Hundreds of his fellow officers, jailed years before him, are still inside. Strange isn’t to have a nation’s army called a terrorist group? Who would dare call it so? The name, their name, is treason. Their names are the names of founders of the ruling religious fascist party. Meet Abdullah Gül, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bülent Arınç, the three stars of that fast fading, soon to close farce called Ergenekon. And this dynamic trio, this merry band, the Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx and Chico Marx of their shameless Turkish times, they cooked up this entire treacherous deal. Really, these guys are too much, a real riot of laughs. So get this, after the general was released, all three sent him congratulations messages. So funny they are… HA-HA-HA. They couldn’t be any funnier if they had hit him in the face with cream pies. These three comics canned the general for 26 months and then they celebrate his release. HA-HA-HA! Then they sent for the real clown and in comes the major opposition party leader to join in the celebration. HA-HA-HA! Too much, wouldn’t you agree? Don’t you love farce?

Well, Ergenekon has been legally stinking for years. It’s all based on fabricated evidence and secret, false witnesses. Who wrote this joke? Well start with the CIA and assorted traitorous dopes in Turkey. Who produced it? Harpo, Groucho and Chico, with a supporting cast of sold-out journalists, police, prosecutors and judges. Who’s the evil genius? Every farce needs an evil genius. Why he’s an old friend of Harpo, Groucho, and Chico. His name? Feto. Who’s he? He’s an under-educated imam who peddles a line of religious snake-oil blather that appeals to people who are too busy to read and think. But not too busy to be sneaky, violent and suborn treason. He has a big following in Turkey. He makes loads of money so bankrolling the Ergenekon farce was not even a slight problem. And, of course, to further darken the melodrama enter the CIA. Color me green as in a green card for Feto. Color me green as in an Islamic green tie for Groucho. Color me green as in massive bribes and kickbacks and secret bank accounts in the Alps. So far, so bad. Yes, Uncle Feto has been very good to these destroyers of Turkey. And he has been true to his word. He promised to destroy democracy years ago before he escaped into the welcoming arms of the CIA in America, Pennsylvania to be precise. But now pity poor Feto. His old subversive comrades have turned on him. It seems they need a patsy, like Lee Harvey Oswald was fifty years ago. Why? Well, it seems that Groucho and his bit-player ministers and assorted cronies have been stealing everything. Hoses are everywhere sucking, sucking, sucking. Their houses are collapsing from the zillions of shoeboxes stuffed with dollars and euros and whatever else flies in. So Groucho needs a cover, something to take him from being a pious thief to a savior of the nation. Hmmm….

So what does he do? He blames Feto for the whole disaster. The new game is called Fingering Feto. And that’s why the Turkish Marx brothers, now little angels, are congratulating the general. I wonder if they will send congratulations to all the hundreds of soon-to-be-released prisoners whose lives they have stolen? Do they really think that the Turkish people will believe that they are clean, that they too have been made patsies by the patsy, Feto? Remember, farces are brazen and bizarre.

Groucho says he’s saving the nation from Feto’s horrible assault on privacy and the military and everything else. Groucho is, as usual, lying, since he said he was the lead prosecutor in all these cases. Farces are ludicrous too. And so the leading opposition has made an alliance of sorts with Feto. The result? Voters in the coming election can vote for the treasonous ruling party or the treasonous major opposition party. This is pretty funny isn’t it? HA-HA-HA.

Or is this the stupid part? HA-HA-HA!

James (Cem) Ryan
Istanbul
8 March 2014

Brightening Glance,

March 9, 2014
Turkish ex-military chief Ilker Basbug freed from jail

“They stole 26 months from my life,” Ilker Basbug tells reporters after being released from prison

A former Turkish army chief who was sentenced to life for his role in a plot to overthrow the government has been freed from prison in Istanbul.

A local court ordered the release of Gen Ilker Basbug, a day after Turkey’s constitutional court overturned his sentence citing a legal technicality.

Gen Basbug, who was in charge of the Turkish military from 2008 to 2010, was sentenced to life in August 2013.

Dozens of people were charged over the alleged plot.

Gen Basbug was found guilty of leading a shadowy network of hard-line nationalists known as Ergenekon.

The group was said to have plotted to topple the current government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

But Gen Basbug, who has always denied the charges, walked free on Friday.

‘Rights violations’

Turkey’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that Gen Basbug’s imprisonment had violated his rights.

The court trying him had failed to publish a detailed verdict on the case, it said.

Speaking outside the prison in Istanbul, where he had been held for over two years, Gen Basbug said: “Those who acted with hatred and revenge kept us here for 26 months. They stole 26 months from my life.”

Crowds of supporters gathered outside Silivri prison, awaiting the release of Mr Basbug

His lawyer, Ilkay Sezer, welcomed the release but said there were “many more people in jails who are suffering severe health problems and who have been victims of these courts”.

Hundreds of people were jailed in 2012 and 2013 in two high-profile cases, called Sledgehammer and Ergenekon.

In January, the high command of the armed forces and opposition both demanded a retrial for the officers.

Prime Minister Erdogan later said he favoured a retrial, in what many saw as a political turnaround.

In February, the Turkish parliament abolished the specially appointed courts that tried the officers, increasing the possibility of retrials for those convicted.

The latest ruling comes amid heightened political tensions in Turkey over alleged corruption within the government.

The ruling AK Party is rooted in Islam and has moved to curb the power of the Turkish military, which sees itself as guardian of the modern secular state founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

bbc.co.uk, 7 March 2014

March 8, 2014
Erdogan Admits Meddling in Turkish Judiciary amid New Leak Recordings

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has confirmed the authenticity of a tapped phone conversation which allegedly proves his involvement in judiciary affairs.

Erdogan’s confessions came short before a new “leak” recording with his voice emerged on the Internet on Wednesday night and hinted at other cases where he has abused administrative authority, Turkish newspaper Hurriet Daily News has reported.

The tapped conversation in which Erdogan has owned up to taking part is with Sadullah Ergin, former Justice Minister, who is asked to “closely monitor” judicial proceedings against a media mogul.

The Turkish PM, however, denied any wrongdoing and explained he considered it appropriate to tell a former government minister he should keep an eye on a court case.

The proceedings involve Aydin Dogan, the honorary chairman of Dogan Holding, which is a controversial conglomerate operating in energy, media, industry, trade, insurance and tourism industries.

Erdogan also justified his actions revealing that he had been informed of Dogan’s role in “parallel structures and dirty relations” and thus had felt it was required of him to tell former minister Ergin to closely follow the case.

In a statement published in the Hurriet Daily, which is his flagship media outlet, Dogan described the events as “a clear interference in the judicial process”.

Many recordings, allegedly of Erdogan’s wiretapped conversations, have emerged on YouTube over the last few weeks, but the Prime Minister has called most of them “montage”, accusing his US-based rival, Fethullah Gulen, for conspiring against him and his party.

A new audio file was meanwhile uploaded Wednesday night on the Internet. According to Turkish newspaper Zaman, this time it features the Prime Minister as discussing with Ergin how to intervene in the presidential elections of the Council of State on behalf of a female candidate. The leak claims she is Erdogan’s apparent choice for the office, and another politician should be pressured to withdraw his bid in her favour.

Allegations of graft and administrative abuses, as well as corruption investigations into his Party of Justice and Development (AKP), have led to a political crisis which forced Erdogan to declare on Wednesday he would step down if his party did not come as a winner out of the March 30 local elections.

Turkey’s Prime Minister, however, has also hinted that he could run for Prime Minister for the fourth consecutive time, although that would contradict his own party’s internal regulation and short time ago was deemed unlikely.

novinite.com, March 6, 2014

March 7, 2014