18 July 2016 — Liberty
A senior judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has concluded that the Government’s surveillance law breaches our fundamental rights.
The decision could stop the Government’s fatally flawed Investigatory Powers Bill in its tracks.
18 July 2016 — Moon of Alabama
As fake evidence now gets sorted out from the real stuff considerable evidence emerges that the coup in Turkey was either completely staged or at least a controlled provocation as a prelude to large, well planned purges.
While some junior officers involved in the coup may have believe[d] that it was for real, Erdogan and his power apparatus knew that the coup was coming and had everything under control. One wonders how those juniors were deceived and what provoked them into their hasty, amateurish, hapless attempt. Did some allegedly upcoming investigation spook them?
18 July 2016 — Global Research
Turkey’s Attempted Military Coup d’Etat against President Erdogan
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 16 2016
A faction within Turkey’s military announced that it had seized power against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The statement accused Erdogan of “eroding the country’s secular traditions”, Martial law was announced and a curfew was implemented late Friday night.
