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.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    20 hours 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
      1·
      5 minutes 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.