Published time: 16 Dec,
2015 16:13
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It is very difficult to talk in Turkey about issues related to the
country’s foreign policy; particularly the policy on Syria and the Middle East
in general, says Hisyar Ozsoy Turkish opposition MP from the People's
Democratic Party.
"Now it is very difficult in Turkey to talk about issues related
to Turkey’s foreign policy, particularly Turkish policy on Syria and the Middle
East in general. Some days ago two famous Turkish journalists were also put
into prison because they released some news about the transport of weapons from
Turkey to some jihadists groups in Syria. When a CHP deputy talked in the
parliament there wasn’t really a huge reaction; the reaction started in social
media, in particular. And now there is a lynching campaign against this deputy.
This is just another case of intolerance when people criticize the Turkish
government’s Syrian policy,” Ozsoy told RT.
"So, the CHP deputy was making an argument about the transport of
some materials used for chemical weapons and it wasn’t actually even his idea.
He was reading from an indictment that was written by a Turkish public
prosecutor. That was the case. And yet, now we know that people criticizing the
Turkish government’s foreign policy, they are accused of being traitors. There
is huge censorship; it is a kind of psychological warfare on anybody who is
critical of the government’s foreign policy,” he added.
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