About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/53aed84696da5c749ca79901c324d7c7507cac91c3b2d4911508a261     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed criticism of leading civil society figure Osman Kavala on Wednesday, a day after a court acquitted him of orchestrating anti-government protests in 2013. Nine defendants including Kavala were acquitted on Tuesday of seeking to overthrow the government with the mass "Gezi Park" protests. But hours later, a fresh arrest warrant was issued against the rights defender, this time linking him to the failed coup in 2016. In a speech to his party, Erdogan again emphasised Kavala's links to US billionaire and democracy activist George Soros, suggesting this proved he was seeking to undermine the government. "There are Soros-like people behind the curtains who seek to stir up things by provoking revolt in some countries," Erdogan said. "The Turkey branch of this was in prison, but they dared to acquit him," he added. He described the Gezi protests as a "despicable attack just like military coups", adding: "They were not innocent riots." Kavala worked with Soros's Open Society Foundation before it was banned from Turkey, as well as a number of high-profile civil society groups. The court near Istanbul there was not enough evidence to prove he orchestrated the protests as claimed by the prosecution. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in December that Kavala's indictment included no evidence of criminal activity and many rights groups have called his trial a mockery of justice. The Gezi Park protests were sparked by plans to build over a rare green space in the heart of Istanbul but then snowballed into nationwide demonstrations against Erdogan's rule. fo/er/bp
schema:headline
  • Turkey's Erdogan hits out after court acquittal
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software