Turkey has a long history of bloody repression stretching back to the Ottoman Empire. Repression within Turkey is well documented - Kurds, lawyers, journalists, human rights campaigners et cetera. This century alone, Turkey has practiced a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide towards minority groups with massacres of Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, and Kurds. We have driven out our Greek subjects and done everything to uproot them, as well as the Armenians. To this end we applied methods similar to those used in the Middle Ages.
Journalism is the most dangerous profession in Turkey.
Turkish journalist interviewed on BBC2 documentary 'Special Correspondent'. It was a crime committed for no reason. Turkey is a military, totalitarian regime masquerading as a democracy. Throughout the Kosovo crisis the Serbs charged the West with a double standard. Turkey's treatment of the Kurds was far worse than anything the West accused the Serbs of doing in Kosovo, they said, yet as Turkey was a member of NATO the West turned a blind eye.