I was elected Mayor of Istanbul three times. When I became the leading democratic challenger to the government, my university diploma, a prerequisite for running for presidency, was annulled. I was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.
Since then, they have tried repeatedly to silence me.
My voice, my image and even photographs of me have been restricted. My social media accounts have been blocked time and again.
Then they tried to silence me inside the courtroom itself. I was prevented from presenting my defence and even from questioning other defendants.
Now they are trying to silence that defence outside the courtroom as well.
My forthcoming book, Millet Şahidimdir — The Nation Is My Witness — contains much of the defence I was not allowed to deliver freely before the court. On 27 August, before the book could even be released, an Istanbul court ordered all printed and forthcoming copies to be seized and banned its distribution and sale.
Police were sent to printing houses and copies were confiscated.
Think about what this means, first they prevent a political prisoner from presenting his defence in court; then they prohibit the public from reading that defence.
This is not justice. It is censorship backed by judicial power.
But I will not be intimidated.
I will not be silenced.
I will not surrender.
Millions will read this book. My defence will be heard. The truth will reach the public including those who are trying so desperately to suppress it.
You can confiscate a book. You cannot confiscate the truth.
@ProfDrYavuzKaya Bir ülkenin Anayasası kişilere göre değişim olsaydı ABD başkanları hiç değişmezdi
Ama değiştirmeyi hedeflediği ülkelere uyguladığı baskıya direnmeyenlere tek dileğim çekin ellerinizi şehitlerin kanları ile alınmıştır
@SezaiMatur Yabani hayvanlar ayrı sorun ama esas sorun
Bu duble Yol yapılırken çalışanlar da söylemişlerdi çok net hatırlıyorum hatalı bir yol yapımı olduğunu bütün yol ayrımlarında sağa sola dönecekler için cep olması gerekirdi çünkü resim de gözüktüğü gibi koca koca kavşak alanın müsaitti
@lvntozrn İşte tam bu yüzden
Olmuyor politikaları sadece vatanseverlik milliyetçilik üstüne olması manidar
Ekonomik ve sosyal yönetim ideolojisi belli ve net değil !