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AKP Watch September 10th, 2007

Switzerland authorities investigating a possible terror finance case for Yimpaş Holding, Turkish daily Hürriyet reported.

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Yimpaş Group, one of the main financiers of AK Party, illegally raised 2,5 billion euros from pious Turkish guest workers in mosques throughout Europe who were not willing to put their money into banks, since Islam prohibits interest but permits dividends that are considered part of a company’s profits and where payment is not guaranteed.

Financial authorities in Germany and Switzerland began to closely scrutinize Yimpaş after some officials were caught at Customs hauling money or gold into Turkey in suitcases.

German and Swiss Prosecutors charged Yimpaş with crimes related international fraud and money laundering.The Manheim Federal Court in Germany issued an international arrest warrant for Yimpaş Chairman Dursun Uyar and Interpol at that time placed him on its Red Notice list, Hürriyet reported.

Switzerland was investigating possible international fraud by the Yimpas Group AG, Jeanette Balmer, spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office in Switzerland, said earlier. During the investigation Swiss authorities could not determined whereabouts of 18 million CHF, which possible end up with islamic terrorist organisations.

AK Party’s leading public figures, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Industry and Trade Minister Ali Coşkun , Justice Minister Cemil Çiçek, Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu, Speaker of Parliament Bülent Arinç, were frequently apperaring in all opening receptions of Yimpaş Group.

Despite an international warrant for his arrest, Dursun Uyar, Chairman of the huge Yimpaş Group, has made several public appearances, in some cases close to police and government officials, without being detained.

• AK Party , AKP , Erdogan , European Union , Terrorism , Turkey
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AKP Watch August 31st, 2007

A prominent Anti-Islamist AKP opponent, investigative journalist and bestselling author of famous controversial Anti-AKP books, Ergün Poyraz still remains detained since his arrest one month ago.

Poyraz widely known by his bestselling books about AK Party, PM Tayyip Erdoğan, President Adbullah Gül and their background supporter islamic sect leader Fethullah Gülen.

Bestselling Author 

According to the sales reports provided by  Turkish Publisher Association, Poyraz’s bestselling book, “Children of Moses: Tayyip and Emine” (”Musanin Çocukları: Tayyip and Emine”) following top selling “The Secret” in Turkey for five consecutive months since it’s published in February 2007. 

Surpressing Opponents

PM Erdoğan’s propaganda minister Press Director Akif Beki (aka Goebbels of AKP) earlier sought a court order to ban Poyraz’s bestselling book, fortunatelly the court dismissed the request.

As Erdoğan’s initial plan to surpress Poyraz failed, most likely, Fethullah Gülen’s organisation stepped in to help by utilising their followers penetrated in Police Department to create some phonny evidence to secure Poyraz’s arrest.

The EU is silent 

It’s very interesting to see that the Poyraz arrest went unnoticed by European Union. The EU was very sensitive when it comes to Turkey’s legendary article 301 prosecutions involving famous Turkish writers such as Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak last year. Poyraz case will be a hallmark for EU’s inconsistency and of hypocrisis towards AK Party opponents. Besides the arrest of Turkey’s arguably most important opponent writer did not mentioned at all in Western Media.

 AK Party’s Nazi-Inspired Crusade against Free Speech

AK Party’s full blown Nazi-Inspired crusade against free speech is being carried out without pause: Earlier this month, former MP Emin Şirin arrested upon an unsigned letter sent by an unknow informer claiming his connections with infamous Ümraniye Mob. Under detentition center, Şirin queried about the chrismas mass (organized by Turkish Catholic Church) he attended. Under EU supported Islamic AK Party regime, even attending a chrismas mass might cause your arrest. Besides Şirin, AKP opponent Journalist Hayrullah Mahmut also arrested and released next day.

• AK Party , AKP , Akif Beki , Censorship , Erdogan , Ergün Poyraz , European Union , Free Speech , Freedom of Press , Islamofascism , Opposition , Turkey
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AKP Watch August 27th, 2007

Bassam Tibi, an influential Syrian-German scholar of Islam and modernity who coined Euro-Islam term, published second edition of his controversal book “Mit dem Kopftuch nach Europa? Die Türkei auf dem Weg in die Europäische Union” (”With the headscarf to Europe? Turkey on the way into the European Union”).

Tibi argues that the AKP is not to be trusted and that its strategy of democratization and Europeanization is only a subterfuge. AKP’s project of joining the European Union, are only diversionary tactical moves by “pseudo-democrat” Islamists to reach their real strategic goal of imposing an Islamist sharia state. The adaptation of Turkey’s constitutional and legal system to European standards, would serve the instrumental purpose of dismantling the secularist elements as guardians of the Kemalist order, which is the only thing that stands in the way of their conquest of absolute state power.

The hidden agenda which the Islamists adopted after the experience of the 1997 military coup, parallels with the Fascist democratic road to power in the 1930s, the communist strategies of the 1940s, or the Algerian FIS in the 1990s.

Tibi told to daily newspaper Cumhuriyet : “Today Turkey defined by political Islam, but only a secular Turkey belongs to Europe, not headscarfed Turkey.”

Tibi also mentioned that The importance of Kemalism and Secularism for Turkey is underestimated by Europe and European policies toward Turkey paved the way for Political Islam. Tibi said: “The headscarf is not a simple clothe, it’s a sharria law and Turkey is governed by a party which uses headscarf as a political symbol”

Tibi concludes that the AK Party’s “headscarf Islam” is not compatible with  universal values of European enlightment.

• AK Party , AKP , Bassam Tibi , European Union , Islamofascism , Secularism , Turkey
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