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Turkey Puts Medical Doctor On Trial For Comparing Erdogan To Gollum
If there’s one thing you’d think Turks would have learned by now, it’s that you do not, under any circumstances, insult President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Nor in fact, do you suggest that the government is corrupt, that the PKK may not be “terrorists” after all, that elections may be rigged, or that the MIT is smuggling guns to militants in Syria. All of these things can and will get you arrested or much, much worse.
In the last two weeks alone we’ve witnessed the arrest and detention of two high profile journalists from Cumhuriyet, the arrest of the generals who were responsible for the investigation the Cumhuriyet journalists were arrested for reporting on, and the resignation of Today’s Zaman chief Bulent Kenes.
Cumhuriyet’s Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, were charged with spying and aiding a terrorist group, the gendarmerie with "forming and leading an armed terrorist organization," and as for Bulent Kenes, he cited ongoing legal battles with the government for his resignation.
This is all par for the course in Turkey. Indeed, it was just three months ago that three Vice News journalists (two British citizens and an Iraqi) were arrested for allegedly "engaging in terror activity" on behalf of ISIS. Their real “crime”: reporting on the conflict with the PKK.
Well as those who frequent these pages are no doubt acutely aware, Erdogan has for all intents and purposes lost his mind since AKP put on a better showing at a re-run election the President engineered in early November. In addition to the renewed media crackdown, he’s shot down a Russian warplane and invaded Iraq.
Well, just when you thought things couldn’t get any more surreal in Turkey, Dr. Bilgin Ciftci, a physician with the the Public Health Institution of Turkey has lost is job and now faces two years in prison for sharing the following on social media:

Yes, that’s right, Erdogan is about to put a medical doctor in jail for comparing him to Gollum.
But it gets better.
As The New York Times notes, “a judge said he did not know enough about the Tolkien creature to make an appropriate decision, five experts were ordered to conduct an investigation into Gollum’s moral character before the next phase of the trial begins in February.”
In what certainly comes across as a kind of slightly condescending (if you're a Tolkein fan) attempt to make light of the situation without just coming out and calling the whole thing ridiculous, The Times went to the trouble of interviewing and quoting Michael D. C. Drout, an English professor at Wheaton College who edits an annual review of Tolkien’s works.
“I don’t think there’s any consensus that Gollum is evil. He is the most tragic character in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ The context is this: Gollum accidentally, not intentionally, saves the entire world. [Tolkein] didn’t see him as irredeemably evil. He saw him as someone who had been destroyed by this evil ring.”
Meanwhile, Peter Jackson - who directed the famous big screen adaptations of Tolkein's trilogy, weighed in as well. "If the images are in fact the ones forming the basis of this Turkish lawsuit, we can state categorically: None of them feature the character known as Gollum. All of them are images of the character called Smeagol. Smeagol would never dream of wielding power over those weaker than himself. He is not a bully. In fact he’s very loveable. This is why audiences all over the world have warmed to his character.”
Hilariously, Ciftci’s lawyer Hicran Danisman told the AP that the reason it came to this in the first place is that a common sense, freedom of expression defense didn't fly in the face of the government's accusations, so she was effectively forced to argue that Gollum isn't all bad. Here's a bit more on the history of the case from al-Monitor:
Initially, almost everyone involved thought the case would be promptly dismissed. However, the case took an unusual turn. The Gollum meme was declared “ideological” and banned at the Public Health Institution, where Ciftci worked. The investigation prepared several reports, one of which claimed that this sort of offensive memes goes against the will of the Turkish people. In a nutshell, the report argued that it should be remembered that such memes target a man who has been elected president by 52% of the vote, about 21 million Turks. The report claimed, “These sorts of memes have no positive impact and … [are] part of an operation to tarnish the elected government’s reputation.”
Article 299 of the Turkish penal code says that anyone who insults the president can face up to four years in prison, and the prison term goes up if the crime is committed publicly. If found guilty, Ciftci may be imprisoned for his Facebook post.
If Gollum is found to be evil, then the meme will be considered “offensive” and Ciftci would be guilty of offending Erdogan. Yet the judge was not familiar with the Tolkien series, and could not independently decide on the character of Smeagol or Gollum. So he asked for an expert council to gather. The court-appointed council contains two academics, a "TV expert" and two behavioral scientists. The absurdity of putting Gollum on trial has sparked a domestic and international uproar.
"What if the meme is found to depict Smeagol? Would there then be a new court-appointed council to investigate the character of Smeagol the hobbit?," al-Monitor goes on to ask, incredulous. Ciftci's lawyer is apparently set to inlcude Peter Jackson's statement in the case file which means that it's at least possible a Turkish court could end up analyzing Gollum and Smeagol as two separate beings on the way to determining whether the good doctor was actually comparing Erdogan to a vile, murderous creature driven mad by the powers of a magical ring, or a tormented, largely misunderstood anti-hero with a good heart.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what's going on in Turkey, a NATO member and an ally that's apparently so valuable to Washington, that the US is prepared to appease Erdogan even if it means risking open warfare with Russia and alienating any friends America still has in Baghdad.
Although we wish Dr. Ciftci the best, we'd argue that Erdogan is a lot closer to Gollum than Smeagol. Decide for yourself:
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The article is precious.
I fucking love how power micromanages to maintain power. If they're not worried about fucking twitter, they're reading text messages or listening in to phone calls while doing everything they can to move our digital lives to the cloud and put a camera everywhere you look, or track our cars with GPS & RFID and license plate readers.
Meanwhile ranchers just put ear tags in the sheep, paint numbers on them, and put up electric fence. Control of human livestock is so much more interesting.
Humans are easier. I've never seen a sheep go on Facebook and upload pictures of itself and its friends, then connect to twitter to advise of its daily activities.
Worse even now for Erdogan clan. On youtube has posted someone 'Ballad of Bilalbo Erdobaggins'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU
Someone really should tell Erdogan about the Streisand Effect.
Or better, just put a bullet in his fucking brain.
Funny, isn't this part of the same group of clowns that were calling Putin the "next Hitler". Whatever that actually means, not quite sure, because I don't see Turkey exporting Jews.
Holly shit that's close
Yeah- someone struck a nerve...
Jackson is wrong, there's no question that --->
"Erdo?an’s Behavior is Much Closer to Gollum’s, not Sméagol"
http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/12/erdogans-behavior-is-much-closer-...
Are the current earthlings this vacuous?
No worries, Obamy will instigate the Arab Spring in Turkey and save it like he did Egypt and Libya.
Yet another huge sign that the end is fucking here. People getting gunned down and blown to shit and this makes a headline.
I like to beat the shit out of Erdrogan.
Hold on. Which one is Gollum?
Gollum is the one who saved the world by throwing himself and the One Ring into the Lake of Doom. So why is Erdogan mad that he is compared to such a selfless hero?
Because he thinks he's a Nazgul? He sure as fuck ain't Saruman...
Erdogan is making Little Kim from North Korea look the picture of mental health.
War criminal Erdogan should be flattered by the comparison. Besides, Gollum has the good sense not to be always kissing Obama's ass.
Turkey supplied the sarin that killed over 1300 Syrians in Ghouta to try to get the Nobel Prize Winner to bomb Assad into oblivion
Seymour Hersh Links Turkey to Benghazi, Syria and Sarin
The assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency is that the sarin was supplied by Turkey to elements in Ghouta with the intent of “push[ing] Obama over the red line.” Intercepted transmissions from Turkish operators in the aftermath of the attack are jubilant, and the success of their covert mission must have seemed well in hand. Obama’s implicit call to war in the coming month was proof of that.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/06/seymour-hersh-links-turke...
There can be only one.
That's Highlander. Psychopaths, unfortunately, come in bunches.
What if, say, for instance, you were to compare his wife to a Wookie? Would that be OK? I mean, Wookies aren't evil. The are peace-loving creatures that just happen to occasionally tear peoples arms off and make kids eat unpalatable school lunches.
What if is compared to guy works in television store?
http://ifotohost.com/pic/266/8hem0n.jpg
I would luv to show that pic to my Daughter, but it would take too long to explain just WHY it's so Funny! :>D
who came up tyler durden? cant see the forest forest for the trees
you guys are closer to each other than you can imagine
OK, so first, you are an asshole. Second, how did you get approved for a screen name that's nothing but dashes? That's badass. Third, welcome to Fight Club. Douchebag.
it seems you got it right nodebt
thank you for the welcome but im not new
and if you are here, the thing with the asshole may applies to you too
i see a huge load of downvotes and pootie clones and one-pattern-copy-paste-comments, but no one can answer my question
What the fuck is your question? I can't see it because you put too many forests in front of your trees.
We are all TYLERS you ignorant broke dick fuck
YOU GONNA FIGHT OR STAND THERE RUBBING YOUR PUSSY ?!
Your question is totally incoherent.
All your arseholes are belong to us!!!!!
Sometimes governments need to take a step back...take a deep breath...and just deal with the important issues of the day...I can see the Turkish officials are finally waking up and taking care of the people's business and concerns...
I tried that meditation and visualization crap. Tried to 'BE the change you want'. Even took up breathing exercises.
Didn't work; fucking psychopaths are STILL HERE. Might take something more, you know, movement oriented...and I ain't talking yoga.
Doc has a point - amazing resemblance.
" But, he likeses some dirty oils more than the Precious. Filthy little mans. "
Picture here when Erdogan emotional regards his precious.
http://cs631226.vk.me/v631226600/186e/iauIZQ2GKvU.jpg
I hope WilliamBanzai7 doesn't get himself a death senctence from ol' Erdie.
If I am not mistaken, President (Sultan) Recep Tayyip Erdogan was recently reelected by Turkish voters by a wide margin. You deserve what you vote for.
It was a free and fair election.
Free to attend and fairly manipulated.
sounds familiar...
As funny as this is, it should be emphasized that Erdogan is a fucking scumbag.
Duly noted. Seems to be par for the course these days.
I think he got off lightly considering the shit state of Turkey under Gollum. Ergun Poyraz was sentenced to 29 years in prison for writing a book about Erdogan.
"He is best known for his 2007 book Children of Moses, which accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his wife of being secret Jews and of cooperating with Israeli intelligence to undermine Turkish secularism."
Now that's interesting! It even mentions operation Gladio.
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing... when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors... when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you... when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice... you may know that society is doomed."
http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-intervened-firm-request-son-230152981.html
Thanks YHC-FTSE, an interesting coupla links...
It doesn't seem to say in the brief highlights of the Poyraz book, but I guess he's describing Erdogan as a Dönmeh jew: publicly islamic but secretly jewish. That explains much about Erdogan...
Erdogan's Ring ;)
This article is not so much about Erdogan as it is about the idiocy of the EU and the US who ply him with billions.
Shitty for all the names in the credits of the film...now they're all on a Turkish no fly list.
List of journalists killed in Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
Under Putin (incl. 2nd Chechen conflict)
2000\u20132002
2000[77]
1 February \u2013 Vladimir Yatsina, a photocorrespondent with ITAR-TASS. On his first and only trip to Chechnya he was kidnapped and later killed (by a group of Wahhabis some suggest).[78] Homicide [J].
10 February \u2013 Ludmila Zamana, Samara. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
9 March \u2013 Artyom Borovik, Sovershenno sekretno periodical and publishing house, director and journalist. Sheremetyevo-1 Airport, Moscow. Incident not confirmed [?J].
22 March \u2013 Luisa Arzhieva, correspondent for Istina mira newspaper (Moscow). Avtury, Chechnya. Crossfire [?J].
17 April \u2013 Oleg Polukeyev, Homicide.
1 May \u2013 Boris Gashev, literary critic. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
13 May \u2013 Alexander Yefremov, Chechnya. A photojournalist with west Siberian newspaper Nashe Vremya, Yefremov died when militants blew up a military jeep in which he was travelling. On previous assignments, Yefremov won acclaim for his news photographs from the war-torn region. Crossfire [J].
16 July \u2013 Igor Domnikov, from Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Struck over the head with a hammer in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment building, Domnikov lay in a coma for two months. His murderer was identified in 2003 and convicted in 2007 [3]. The men who ordered and organised the attack have been named by his paper but not charged. Homicide [J].
26 July \u2013 Sergei Novikov, Radio Vesna, Smolensk. Shot in a contract killing in stairwell of his apartment building. Claimed that he often criticized the administration of Smolensk Region. Homicide [?J].
21 September \u2013 Iskander Khatloni, Radio Free Europe, Moscow. A native of Tajikistan, Khatloni was killed at night in an axe attack on the street outside his Moscow apartment block. His assailant and the motive of the murder remain unknown. A RFE/RL spokeswoman said Khatloni worked on stories about the human-rights abuses in Chechnya.[79] Homicide [nJ].
3 October \u2013 Sergei Ivanov, Lada-TV, Togliatti. Shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building. As director of largest independent television company in Togliatti, he was an important player on the local political scene.[80] Homicide. Gang responsible on trial [nJ].
18 October \u2013 Georgy Garibyan, journalist with Park TV (Rostov), murdered in Rostov-on-Don [nJ].
20 October \u2013 Oleg Goryansky, freelance journalist, press & TV. Murdered in Cherepovets, Vologda Region. Conviction [nJ].
21 October \u2013 Raif Ablyashev, photographer with Iskra newspaper. Kungur, Perm Region. Homicide [nJ].
3 November \u2013 Sergei Loginov, Lada TV (Togliatti). Incident not confirmed [nJ].
20 November \u2013 Pavel Asaulchenko, cameraman for Austrian TV, Moscow. Contract killing. Conviction of perpetrator [nJ].
23 November \u2013 Adam Tepsurkayev, Reuters, Chechnya. A Chechen cameraman, he was shot at his neighbor's house in the village of Alkhan-Kala (aka Yermolovka). Tepsurkayev filmed most of Reuters' footage from Chechnya in 2000, including the Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev having his foot amputated. Homicide (war crime) [J].
28 November \u2013 Nikolai Karmanov, retired journalist. Lyubim, Yaroslavl Region. Homicide [nJ].
23 December \u2013 Valery Kondakov, freelance photographer. Killed in Armavir, Krasnodar Region [nJ].
2001[81]
1 February \u2013 Eduard Burmagin, Homicide.
24 February \u2013 Leonid Grigoryev, Homicide [nJ].
8 March \u2013 Andrei Pivovarov, Homicide.
31 March \u2013 Oleg Dolgantsev, Homicide [nJ].
17 May \u2013 Vladimir Kirsanov,[82] chief editor. Kurgan, Urals Federal District. Homicide [J].
2 June \u2013 Victor Popkov, Novaya gazeta contributore, died in Moscow Region hospital. Wounded in Chechnya two months earlier. Crossfire [J].
11 September \u2013 Andrei Sheiko, Homicide [nJ].
19 September \u2013 Eduard Markevich, 29, editor and publisher of local newspaper Novy Reft in Sverdlovsk Region. Shot in the back[82] in a contract killing, homicide [J].
5 November \u2013 Elina Voronova, Homicide [nJ].
16 November \u2013 Oleg Vedenin, Homicide.
21 November \u2013 Alexander Babaikin, Homicide [nJ].
1 December \u2013 Boris Mityurev, Homicide.
2002[83]
18 January \u2013 Svetlana Makarenko, Homicide.
4 March \u2013 Konstantin Pogodin, Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod. Homicide.
8 March \u2013 Natalya Skryl, Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog. Homicide [?J].
31 March \u2013 Valery Batuyev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
1 April \u2013 Sergei Kalinovsky, Moskovskij Komsomolets local edition, Smolensk. Homicide [nJ].
4 April \u2013 Vitaly Sakhn-Vald, photojournalist, Kursk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 April \u2013 Leonid Shevchenko, Pervoye Chtenie newspaper, Volgograd. Homicide [nJ].
29 April \u2013 Valery Ivanov, founder and chief editor of Tolyattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, Samara Region.[82] Contract killing [J].
20 May \u2013 Alexander Plotnikov, Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen. Homicide.
6 June \u2013 Pavel Morozov, Homicide.
25 June \u2013 Oleg Sedinko, founder of Novaya Volna TV & Radio Company, Vladivostok. Contract killing, explosive in stairwell [nJ].
20 July \u2013 Nikolai Razmolodin, general director of Europroject TV & Radio Company, Ulyanovsk. Homicide.
21 July \u2013 Maria Lisichkina Homicide [nJ].
27 July \u2013 Sergei Zhabin, press service of the Moscow Region governor. Homicide [nJ].
18 August \u2013 Nikolai Vasiliev, Cheboksary city, Chuvashia. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 August \u2013 Paavo Voutilainen, former chief editor of Karelia magazine, Karelia. Homicide [nJ].
4 September \u2013 Leonid Kuznetsov, "Periodicals of Mari-El" publishing house, Yoshkar-Ola.[84] Incident not confirmed [?J].
20 September \u2013 Igor Salikov, head of information security at Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper in Penza. Contract killing [nJ].
26 September \u2013 Roderick (Roddy) Scott, Frontline TV Company, Great Britain. Crossfire [J].
2 October \u2013 Yelena Popova, Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
19 October \u2013 Leonid Plotnikov Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
26 October \u2013 Tamara Voinova (Stavropol) and Maxim Mikhailov (Kaliningrad), Dubrovka theatre siege ("Nord Ost" show), Moscow. Terrorist Act [nJ].
21 December \u2013 Dmitry Shalayev, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2003\u20132005
2003[85]
7 January \u2013 Vladimir Sukhomlin, Internet journalist and editor, Serbia.ru, Moscow. Homicide. Off-duty police convicted of his murder, not those behind this contract killing [J].
11 January \u2013 Yury Tishkov, sports commentator, Moscow. Contract killing [nJ].
21 February \u2013 Sergei Verbitsky, publisher BNV newspaper. Chita. Homicide [nJ].
18 April \u2013 Dmitry Shvets, TV-21 Northwestern Broadcasting, Murmansk. Deputy director of the independent TV-21 station (Northwestern Broadcasting), he was shot dead outside the TV offices. Shvets' colleagues said the station had received multiple threats for its reporting on influential local politicians. Contract killing [nJ].
3 July \u2013 Yury Shchekochikhin, Novaya gazeta, Moscow. Deputy editor of Novaya gazeta and a Duma deputy since 1993, he died just a few days before his scheduled trip to USA to discuss the results of his journalist investigation with FBI officials. He investigated "Three Whales Corruption Scandal" that allegedly involved high-ranking FSB officials. Shchekochikhin died from an acute allergic reaction. There has been much speculation about cause of his death. Investigation into his death has been opened and closed four times. Homicide [J].
4 July \u2013 Ali Astamirov, France Presse. Went missing in Nazran [?J].
18 July \u2013 Alikhan Guliyev, freelance TV journalist, from Ingushetia. Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
10 August \u2013 Martin Kraus, Dagestan. On way to Chechnya. Homicide [nJ].
9 October \u2013 Alexei Sidorov, Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye, Togliatti. Second editor-in-chief of this local newspaper to be murdered. Predecessor Valery Ivanov shot in April 2002.[82] Homicide. Supposed killer acquitted [?J].
24 October \u2013 Alexei Bakhtin, journalist and businessman, formerly Mariiskaya pravda. Mari El. Homicide [nJ].
30 October \u2013 Yury Bugrov, editor of Provincial Telegraph. Balakovo, Saratov Region. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 December \u2013 Pyotr Babenko, editor of Liskinskaya gazeta. Liski, Voronezh Region. Homicide [nJ].
2004[86]
1 February \u2013 Yefim Sukhanov, ATK-Media, Archangelsk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
23 March \u2013 Farit Urazbayev, cameraman, Vladivostok TV/Radio Company, Vladivostok. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
2 May \u2013 Shangysh Mongush, correspondent with Khemchiktin Syldyzy newspaper, Tuva. Homicide [?J].
9 May \u2013 Adlan Khasanov, Reuters reporter, died in Grozny bomb attack that killed Chechen President Ahmed Kadyrov. Terrorist Act [J].
9 June \u2013 Paul Klebnikov, chief editor of newly established Russian version of Forbes magazine, Moscow. Contract killing, alleged perpetrators put on trial and acquitted. Homicide [J].
1 July \u2013 Maxim Maximov, journalist with Gorod newspaper, St Petersburg. Body not found. Homicide [J].
10 July \u2013 Zoya Ivanova, TV presenter, Buryatia State Television & Radio Company, Ulan Ude, Buryatia. Homicide [nJ].
17 July \u2013 Pail Peloyan, editor of Armyansky Pereulok magazine, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
3 August \u2013 Vladimir Naumov, nationalist reporter, Cossack author (Russky Vestnik, Zavtra), Moscow Region. Homicide [nJ].
24 August \u2013 Svetlana Shishkina, journalist, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
24 August \u2013 Oleg Belozyorov, Moscow-Volgograd flight. Terrorist Act [nJ].
18 September \u2013 Vladimir Pritchin, editor-in-chief of North Baikal TV & Radio Company, Buryatia. Homicide [?J].
27 September \u2013 Jan Travinsky (St Petersburg), in Irkutsk as political activist for election campaign.[87] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2005[88]
23 May \u2013 Pavel Makeyev, reporter for TNT-Pulse Company, Rostov-on-Don. Run down while photographing illegal street racing. Incident not Confirmed [?J].
28 July \u2013 Magomed Varisov, political analyst and journalist, shot dead near his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He "had received threats, was being followed and had unsuccessfully sought help from the local police" according to Committee to Protect Journalists. Sharia Jamaat claimed responsibility for the murder.[89] Homicide [J].
31 August \u2013 Alexander Pitersky, Baltika Radio reporter, Saint Petersburg. Homicide [?J].
3 September \u2013 Vladimir Pashutin, Smolensky Literator newspaper, Smolensk. Not Confirmed [nJ].
13 October \u2013 Tamirlan Kazikhanov, head of press service for Anti-Terrorist Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs's Main Department for the Southern Federal District, Nalchik. Crossfire [J].
4 November \u2013 Kira Lezhneva, reporter with Kamensky rabochii newspaper, Sverdlovsk Region.[90] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2006\u20132008
2006[91]
8 January \u2013 Vagif Kochetkov, newly appointed Trud correspondent in the region, killed and robbed in Tula. Acquittal [nJ].
26 February \u2013 Ilya Zimin, worked for NTV Russia television channel, killed in Moscow flat. Suspect in Moldova trial. Acquittal [nJ].
4 May \u2013 Oksana Teslo, media worker, Moscow Region. Arson attack on dacha. Homicide [nJ].
14 May \u2013 Oleg Barabyshkin, director of radio station, Chelyabinsk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
23 May \u2013 Vyacheslav Akatov, special reporter, Business Moscow TV show, murdered in Mytyshchi Moscow Region. Killer caught and convicted. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 June \u2013 Anton Kretenchuk, cameraman, local Channel 38 TV, killed in Rostov-on-Don. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 July \u2013 Yevgeny Gerasimenko, journalist with Saratovsky Rasklad newspaper. Murdered in Saratov. Conviction [nJ].
31 July \u2013 Anatoly Kozulin, retired freelance journalist. Ukhta, Komi. Homicide [nJ].
8 August \u2013 Alexander Petrov, editor-in-chief, Right to Choose magazine Omsk, murdered with family while on holiday in Altai Republic. Under-age murderer charged and prosecuted. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
17 August \u2013 Elina Ersenoyeva, reporter for Chechenskoye obshchestvo newspaper. Abducted in Grozny, Chechnya. Missing [?J].
13 September \u2013 Vyacheslav Plotnikov, reporter, local "Channel 41" TV, Voronezh. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
7 October \u2013 Anna Politkovskaya, commentator with Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, shot in her apartment building's elevator;.[92][93][94][95] Four accused in contract killing, acquitted in February 2009 [J].
16 October \u2013 Anatoly Voronin, Itar-TASS news agency, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
28 December \u2013 Vadim Kuznetsov, editor-in-chief of World & Home. Saint Petersburg magazine, killed in Saint Petersburg. Homicide [nJ].
2007[96]
14 January \u2013 Yury Shebalkin, retired journalist, formerly with Kaliningradskaya pravda. Homicide in Kaliningrad. Conviction [nJ].
20 January \u2013 Konstantin Borovko, presenter of "Gubernia" TV company (Russian: "\u0413\u0443\u0431\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0438\u044f"), killed in Khabarovsk.[43] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2 March \u2013 Ivan Safronov, military columnist of Kommersant newspaper. Died in Moscow, cause of death disputed.[97][98] Incident not Confirmed. Investigation under Incitement to Suicide (Article 110) [?J].
15 March \u2013 Leonid Etkind, director at Karyera newspaper. Abduction and homicide in Vodnik, Saratov Region. Conviction [nJ].
5 April \u2013 Vyacheslav Ifanov, Novoye televidenie Aleiska, cameraman. Previously attacked by local military. Aleisk, Altai. Incident not Confirmed [?J].
Marina Pisareva, deputy head of Russian office of German media group Bertelsmann was found dead at her country cottage outside Moscow in April[99][100]
2008
(Putin's final months as president)
8 February \u2013 Yelena Shestakova, former journalist, St Petersburg. Killer sent to psychiatric prison. Homicide [nJ].
21 March \u2013 Gadji Abashilov, chief of Dagestan State TV & Radio Company VGTRK, shot in his car in Makhachkala. Homicide [?J].
21 March \u2013 Ilyas Shurpayev, Dagestani journalist covering Caucasus on Channel One, was strangled with a belt by robbers in Moscow.[101][102] Alleged killers tracked to Tajikistan and convicted there of his murder. Homicide [?J].
The Medvedev presidency
2008\u20132011
2008[103]
31 August \u2013 Magomed Yevloyev, Ingush oppositionist, founder of Ingushetiya.ru, Moscow-based lawyer, shot on return to country while in custody of Ingush police officers.[104][105][106] Killer convicted of negligent homicide, sentence subsequently mitigated. Homicide. Conviction [J].
2 September \u2013 Abdulla Alishayev, (aka Telman Alishayev), TV presenter on Muslim channel, shot dead in car, Makhachkala.[107] Homicide [J].
2009[108]
4 January \u2013 Shafig Amrakhov, editor of news agency RIA 51, Murmansk, was shot in stairwell entrance from the traumatic pistol on 30 December 2008 and died in hospital.[109] Homicide [nJ].
4 January \u2013 Vladislav Zakharchuk, manager of the Arsenyevskie Vesti newspaper in Vladivostok. Died in a fire under suspicious circumstances.[110]
19 January \u2013 Anastasia Baburova, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. On 19 January Stanislav Markelov, lawyer for Novaya gazeta, anti-fascist activist and opponent of human rights abuses in Chechnya, was shot and killed in the centre of Moscow.[111] With him died Anastasia Baburova a trainee reporter with Novaya Gazeta, and a fellow anti-fascist activist.[112][113] In early November 2009 a man and a woman were arrested for the killing.
30 March \u2013 Sergei Protazanov, layout artist with Grazhdanskoye soglasie newspaper, Khimki nr. Moscow. Link to work questioned. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
29 June \u2013 Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, chief editor of Corruption and Criminality newspaper in Volgograd died after a severe head injuries in June. He was allegedly struck in the temple by the unknown assailant, although the local police claims fall from the ladder as the reason for injury.[114]
15 July \u2013 Natalia Estemirova,[115] a human rights activist with Memorial, who worked with journalists from Novaya gazeta, especially Anna Politkovskaya, and occasionally published in the newspaper herself, having been a TV reporter pre-1999. After years of investigating murders and kidnapping in Chechnya Estemirova was herself abducted that morning in Grozny and found, shot dead, by the roadside several hours later in neighbouring Ingushetia.[116] Homicide [J].
11 August \u2013 Malik Akhmedilov,[117] deputy chief editor of the Avar language newspaper Khakikat (Truth), was found shot dead near the Dagestan capital Makhachkala. Homicide [?J].
25 October \u2013 Maksharip Aushev was shot dead in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.[118] When Magomed Yevloyev gave up running Ingushetia.ru, and his replacement (Rosa Malsagova) had to flee abroad to escape threats and harassment, Aushev ran the successor website Ingushetia.org. Link to past or present work unclear. Homicide [?J].
16 November \u2013 Olga Kotovskaya, Kaskad radio & TV company, Kaliningrad. Died in a fall from 14th storey-building under suspicious circumstances. Investigation under "Incitement to suicide" (Article 110).[119] [?J].
2010[120]
20 January \u2013 Konstantin Popov died from a beating received a fortnight earlier by Russian police, in a detoxification centre for drunk and disorderly.[121] 26-year-old police sergeant charged with his killing. Homicide [nJ].
23 February \u2013 Journalist Ivan Stepanov was stabbed to death at his dacha.[122] The murderers have been arrested and sentenced to 16 and 18 years of prison.[123] Homicide [nJ].
20 March \u2013 Maxim Zuyev was found murdered in a Kaliningrad flat he was renting. Seven years earlier he was interrogated by the city's police for publishing an anonymous letter alleging corruption among high-ranking police officers in the enclave.[124][125][126][127] "Crime solved", says Investigative Committee.
5 May \u2013 Shamil Aliyev, founder of two radio stations and a director of TV network was shot in his car by two unidentified attackers, who also killed his bodyguard and wounded driver.[128][129] Homicide [?J]
13 May \u2013 Said Magomedov, director of local television station, Sergokalinsky district, Dagestan. Shot dead when travelling with repairmen to restore sabotaged TV transmitter. Terrorist act [J].
25 June \u2013 Dmitry Okkert, Moscow. A presenter with the Expert TV channel, Okkert was found stabbed to death in his own apartment. The director of the Expert media holding, Valery Fadeyev, does not believe that the brutal killing of his colleague was linked to his journalistic activities. Homicide [?J].
25 July \u2013 Bella Ksalova, Cherkessk. A correspondent for the Caucasian Knot website and news agency, Ksalova died in a hospital after being hit by a car near her home. The driver was sentenced to 3 1/4 years in penal colony.[130]
1 August \u2013 Malika Betiyeva, Grozny-Shatoi highway. The deputy chief editor of Molodyozhnaya smena, and Chechnya correspondent of the "Dosh" (Word) magazine, died with four of her immediate family when a speeding jeep crashed into her car.[131]
11 August \u2013 Magomed Sultanmagomedov, Makhachkala. The director of the "Makhachkala TV" station died in the hospital after his car was shot at from another vehicle. This was preceded by an attempted bombing in 18 November 2008.[132] [J]
23 October \u2013 Yevgeny Fedotov died in a hospital due to the head injuries received in a violent quarrel with his neighbour. The latter has been charged for manslaughter.[133]
2011
15 December \u2013 Gadzhimurat Kamalov, Makhachkala. Investigative reporter \u2013 shot 6 times in a drive-by outside his newspaper's offices.[134][135]
Under Putin
2012
7 July - Alexander Khodzinsky, journalist in Tulun, was stabbed to death by a local businessman Gennady Zhigarev, former deputy.[136]
5 December - Kazbek Gekkiev, journalist for local TV programmes in Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot dead on street of Nalchik, after threats from local wahhabi extremists.[137]
2013
9 July - Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, deputy editor of the Novoe Delo was killed (after numerous death threats and previous assassination attempt in January 2013[138]) by several gunshots while he was driving just 50 metres from his house on the outskirts of provincial capital Makhachkala.[139][140][141]
2014
1 August - journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev was abducted from his home and later found dead in Kabardino-Balkaria.[142] Kuashev was previously stopped by local police for a number of times and received death threats.[143]
This sort of shit poured into the head and prancing.
Subscribe to the issue, offer something working. From you one verbal diarrhea.
First I actually need to care what happens to urinalists, then maybe I might give a flying rats. Why should I be outraged that a pack of liars gets strung up for their lying? Urinalists are as guilty as the governments and ngos they whore themselves to.
Turks are stupid, why not just take the money and have a good life, how does that help the wife and kids if you are dead?
Sorry, I'm not very impressed.....
Journalists are at risk in virtually all countries of the world, especially if they seek to expose criminality, corruption at the highest levels or to publish the truth.
What your list fails to expose is that in most countries of The West, journos are overwhelmingly in cahoots with the corrupt criminals in .gov. There is no MSM title or TV news channel which is not in some way controlled by shadowy agencies of The State or fed the offical line on events. In this case the State doesn't need to eliminate them because they're spreading State propaganda.
If Western journos had not rolled over a long time ago and become a propaganda arm of The State but instead attempted to publish the truth, I'd expect to see a huge rise in their mysterious deaths.
Russian journalists are amazing. They never die in car accidents, or of cancer, or killed by robbers, or die of old age, etc. If it wasn't for Putin killing each and everyone one of them with his bare hands (in between sessions where he counts his 200 billion USD stash), they would live forever.
Latvian troll with his 13th account now ?
In other news it looks like a nuclear storm is heading to ISIS or Turkey: "Results of strikes against Daesh targets with new high-precision weapons should be continually analyzed, and expressed hope that the fight against the terrorists would not require nuclear warheads."
"We know that high-precision weapons can be equipped with both conventional warheads and with special warheads, that is, with nuclear warheads. Naturally, in the fight against the terrorists we hope that is something that will never be needed." - Putin.
When I first saw that he had been compared to Gollum I wondered if they may have been insinuating that Erdogan was a creation of Israel because a gollum is a created supernatural creature in Jewish myth. I guess it wasn't that interesting, I wish the doctor good luck, those pictures are hilarious and humor is the only way to go at a tyrant and have any expectation of survival.
He is overreacting just like Hillary did with the comedy show.
'Golem'..... nice try, but try harder
Actually if you want to get picky it's Goylem or galmi.. or numerous other different spellings but thanks for your input.
New and very good article by Pepe Escobar on how Erdogan f**ked up and how Russia and Syria are still ontrack.
http://russia-insider.com/en/what-erdogans-endgame-syria/ri11711
Actually Gollum is more what I imagined George Soros looked like as a small child...
US politicians and the ADL must be green with envy .
erDOGan gone rabid
Typical muzzy - liar, thief, deceiving,corrupt ,murderer, criminal
This is what what was Muhammed
And he has taught all muzzies to become his carbon copies
Matrix - Agent Smith everywhere
But you all abrahamic religions are like that - animals
Erdogan/Gollum? If the fez fits, wear it
Those pics fill me with mirth.
+1 for using "mirth" - i had to look it up :
noun1.
gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter:
the excitement and mirth of the holiday season. 2.
amusement or laughter:
He was unable to conceal his mirth. btw, anyone want a 1927 Fowler's Modern English Usage, Oxford Press - nice hardcover , a couple a 20s mayhaps ? need to pay the netflix for a couple months / s
LOL: "five experts were ordered to conduct an investigation into Gollum’s moral character"
The Onion has been left far behind in the dust by Zero Hedge merely reporting on the news!
yeah, you just wait RadMJ - those Onion folks won't be outdone - just wait and see how they spin this one !
"I always get Gollum and Dobby mixed up." - possible alibi for the beleaguered doc.
Erdo-gone is a Golem, befitting his Donmeh jew status:
Definition of golem according to the Merriam Webster dictionary:an artificial human being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life
something or someone resembling a golem: as a : automaton b : blockhead
Gollum compared to Erdogan?
That it, I give up, that can't be topped.
Erdo and his NATO accomplices are War Criminals, and deserve to be arrested and tried as such...
'Don't want fish. . .'
So then this makes Samwise Putin and Froto is Obama?
You know, maybe Obama just screwed up. He thought the madman he was after was Assad, but it was really Erdogan. Just one country over.
"Medical Doctor On Trial For Comparing Erdogan To Gollum"
There's definitely a strong likeness.
If Erdogan also makes a gulping noise when he swallows, that'll be conclusive.
Yes smacker conclusive that someone has finally put a bullet into the head of sociopath Erdogan . . . but why stop there as the list of candidates is endless?
I recommend that they're all rounded up and put into an old boat and towed out to sea. Then used as target practice. Best choose a sea which is full of hungry sharks, maybe the Indian Ocean.
:-)
I just hope everyone on here is comparing erdocunt to a fucking pedophile and calling his fucking parentage into question regarding that fucking pig his bestiality inclined mentally retarded father inflicted his diseased cock on when he raped the sow.
Only question left in my mind is if erdocunt still fucks pigs too or whether he likes pigs fucking him.
either way someone should take a fucking rifle and shoot the piece of shit
Yep erdocunt that me saying that you fuckwit.
Now fucking put me on trial you fucking knobrot cunt
i will henceforth refer to Recep as "Gollum" in all of my posts about Turkey.
How the fuck is today's Turkey still a NATO member?
The pentagon-industrial complex has their fist so far up Obama's ass that we're going to war for these monkeys?
Give Recep a plate of fishheads and send him packing off to a slimy damp cave.