Turkey's 'False Caliph' confiscates Camus, Spinoza's books
"If I was trying to make terrorist
propaganda, I would have shown Erdogan making plans to flee, instead of the
praying scene," said Turkish film director Ali Avci after a Turkish court
sentenced him to 6 years in prison on charges of terrorism.
In one of the film's scenes, the director
featured an army officer pointing a gun to the back of Erdogan's head while he was
praying. The ruling is not new in Turkey, where Erdogan has imposed his custody
over culture.
The Turkish authorities arrested Baris
Terkoglu and his colleague Baris Pehlivan after they published a book titled
"The Leak: The Popular Turks of WikiLeaks".
Author Hamide Yigit was charged with propagating
terrorist ideas in his book "From al-Qaida to ISIL, Jihad for
America".
The Turkish authorities also banned 135,000
books from public libraries. The books included works by late philosophers Albert
Camus and Baruch Spinoza.
