Peri Pamir given suspended sentence after posting article about UK woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria

Summary

Peri Pamir, a Turkish woman, was convicted twice for sharing a Guardian article about a British woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria.

Pamir received a suspended sentence and five years of probation for “spreading propaganda for a terrorist organization.”

Despite her appeal, she received the same sentence in a retrial.

  • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    40·
    1 month ago

    Man, Turkey really is full of terrorists…

    Don’t like the government? Terrorist. Share an article? Terrorist. Eating the wrong food? Probably terrorist as well.

    What a shit show.

        • gezginorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          well, if you’re accused to be a terrorist, you’re supposed to prove that you’re not so, which is impossible. so while being accused of terrorism lost all it’s weight socially, it’s up to the judge. if he’s one of “them” you’re fucked anyway

          • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            I’d rather be one of those “terrorists” than a person Erdogan seems to like. Hope he lives there rest of his life with breadcrumbs in his bed and the dread of being slapped with a limp penis on the forehead every time he closes his eyes.

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        That and it’s unique location give them massive leeway to fuck around without having to find out

  • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 month ago

    We’re probably going to be seeing articles like this coming from the US in a few years. Probably.

    Take notes

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    810·
    1 month ago

    I was in a business trip in Turkey at an international company. During lunch I learned from a well-educated investor relations manager, how much problem the CIA and their terrorist organization Güllen has caused the country, leading to eg. high inflation.

    Edit: not sure why the downvotes, this is how many Turkish people think (by their own or due to propaganda). That’s why they have laws like this

    • gcheliotis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Your use of the verb “learned” and the adjective “well-educated” suggested that you bought into these views wholesale and uncritically and are now sharing them as some sort of epiphany. Hence the downvotes.