Archive for 'Corruption'
Was Berat Albayrak picked as sacrificial offering in the oil trade with the ISIL?
This is a cross-post from As Turkey Sleeps.
As Italian prosecutor Manuela Cavallo’s launching an investigation into money laundering claims about Bilal Erdogan, who recently moved to the Italian city of Bologna with his family, made it into news reports, another initiative, the Russian Federation kicked off at the United Nations, has raised the possibility of [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2016 under Corruption, Turkey.
Is the ‘Deep State’ using Erdogan to take revenge against its enemies?
This is a cross-post from As Turkey Sleeps.
The deep state (or state within a state) is believed to be a secret network of military officers and their civilian allies who for decades suppressed and even murdered perceived opponents of Turkey’s secular order. It allegedly functioned as a kind of shadow government, spreading false propaganda to [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2016 under Corruption, Turkey.
Turkish democracy erodes further after last week’s twin bomb blasts
By Abi Adnan Oktar
Turkey was shaken last weekend as two bombs exploded during a peace rally in Ankara, killing 128 people and injuring another 500. The rally was organised by several groups, including the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to call for an end to the escalating violence between the Turkish government and the PKK. Footage [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2015 under Corruption, Democracy, Freedom & Liberty, Freedom of Expression, antisemitism.
My MP
After the indy referendum in September 2014 we No voters – who were startled to find we’d been given a new identity, Unionists or Nawbags – thought we could forget about that interruption and get back to normality. Wrong. The SNP rode high, grabbed 56/59 (95%) of the Westminster seats in the general election and [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2015 under Corruption, Nationalism, Scotland.
Sabin Khan: the Islamist ally in the Home Office
This is a guest post by Hafeez Gupta
Some of our readers may recall Sabin Khan (formerly Sabin Malik) from back in 2010 when it was widely reported she had conspired behind the Home Secretary’s back to get the hate preacher Zakir Naik into the country (a sackable offence for a civil servant). This incident [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2013 under Corruption, Disloyal Civil Servants, Islamism, UK Politics.
Two whistle-blowers
Guest post by Sackcloth and Ashes
Edward Snowden is an American, and a former employee of the CIA and a contractor for the USA’s signals intelligence service, the National Security Agency (NSA). In late May 2013 he leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post evidence of what was subsequently described as a global surveillance programme [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under Corruption.