A Dutch journalist of Turkish origin has faced a systematic campaign
of threats including death from what appears to be fans of Turkey’s
autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against the background of a
recent row between Turkey and the Netherlands, the Stockholm Center for
Freedom (SCF) reported.
Hakan Büyük, a 29-year-old journalist, quickly became a target when he recalled mass rights violations taking place in Turkey that have resulted in the jailing of some 50,000 people in the last seven months as part of a Turkish government crackdown on the Kurdish political movement and the Gülen movement. Some of the chilling messages he received on Twitter included threats such as “You’ll be murdered,” “We’ll shoot you in the head” and “One day we’ll get you and draw blood.”
Büyük, an editor at the Zaman Vandaag newspaper, was trying to expose hypocrisy on the part of the Turkish government that decried the barring of Turkish ministers by the Netherlands government from holding political rallies in Dutch cities while Ankara is pursuing a witch-hunt against critics and opponents, dismissing 135,000 people from government jobs and jailing 200 journalists on trumped-up charges.
The journalist had filed four criminal complaints with authorities in the Netherlands over the death threats and filed another one on Wednesday. He was featured last month in SCF’s report titled “Erdoğan’s Long Arm in Europe: The Case of the Netherlands,” which exposed Turkish government profiling and harassment activities in the Netherlands, leading to physical assaults and arson attempts against critics of the Turkish president.
He told SCF that “[t]hey [pro-Erdogan groups] portrayed me as a CIA agent or a terrorist. I received threats on Twitter. They sent me a photo of a dead bloodstained woman. ‘Your end will be like this,’ they wrote beneath it.”
source,
www.turkishminute.com
Hakan Büyük, a 29-year-old journalist, quickly became a target when he recalled mass rights violations taking place in Turkey that have resulted in the jailing of some 50,000 people in the last seven months as part of a Turkish government crackdown on the Kurdish political movement and the Gülen movement. Some of the chilling messages he received on Twitter included threats such as “You’ll be murdered,” “We’ll shoot you in the head” and “One day we’ll get you and draw blood.”
Büyük, an editor at the Zaman Vandaag newspaper, was trying to expose hypocrisy on the part of the Turkish government that decried the barring of Turkish ministers by the Netherlands government from holding political rallies in Dutch cities while Ankara is pursuing a witch-hunt against critics and opponents, dismissing 135,000 people from government jobs and jailing 200 journalists on trumped-up charges.
The journalist had filed four criminal complaints with authorities in the Netherlands over the death threats and filed another one on Wednesday. He was featured last month in SCF’s report titled “Erdoğan’s Long Arm in Europe: The Case of the Netherlands,” which exposed Turkish government profiling and harassment activities in the Netherlands, leading to physical assaults and arson attempts against critics of the Turkish president.
He told SCF that “[t]hey [pro-Erdogan groups] portrayed me as a CIA agent or a terrorist. I received threats on Twitter. They sent me a photo of a dead bloodstained woman. ‘Your end will be like this,’ they wrote beneath it.”
source,
www.turkishminute.com
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