THELOGICALINDIAN - The absolute government in Turkey has answerable three journalists alive for Vice News for agreeable in agitator action on account of ISIL ISIS The allegation according to the government is that one of the three journalists acclimated encryption software on his claimed computer which is generally acclimated by the ISIL
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Out of the three journalists charged, the two are from Britain (Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury) and one ‘the fixer’ is from Iraq but based in Turkey. The three bodies were arrested aftermost Thursday in Diyarbakir which is amid in south-eastern Turkey while they were accoutrement the contempo clashes amid Turkish aegis armament and the Patriotic Revolutionary Adolescence Movement, the adolescence addition of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
According to the address from Al Jazeera a agent for the Turkey government told them that the capital affair seems to be that the journalists’ adjudicator acclimated a circuitous encryption arrangement on his claimed computer that a lot of ISIL militants additionally advance for cardinal communications. Interestingly, alike the agent was not abiding about the circuitous encryption arrangement the being was application as according to him capacity are still awaited. However, he believes that it seems acceptable that it is annihilation added than the PGP email encryption software, or conceivably The Onion Router (TOR) system, both of which are actual broadly used, and not aloof by ISIL.
The Turkish Government Has Strict Control over Internet Access, No PGP Encryption Allowed
It’s not that it is for the aboriginal time that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government is application abundant easily on the bodies who are application encryption. Ever back the protests started in the country in 2013, the country has imposed restrictions on the admission of the amusing media networks. Facebook and Twitters were blocked in the country for absolutely some time; however, adaptable internet users started acquisition about doubtable censorship by downloading software that encrypts and hides their access to the alfresco world.
The arrest seems to be a artifice by the Turkish government to alarm the adopted correspondents who appetite to awning the Kurdish agitation activity on in the country. Erdogan’s government is adverse huge claiming and angary crisis as the appeal for activity adjoin ISIS increasing; however, rather than acting adjoin the Islamists, his government is suppressing the Kurdish population. The activity adjoin the three journalists has added to do with the Kurdish bend as they came in acquaintance with YDG-H associates [the adolescence addition of the PKK] and knew the truth.
The Turkish government is afraid of the actuality that the three journalists may betrayal its activities adjoin the Kurd protesters. Though the Turkish columnist official says that this is an abhorrent adventure and the attorneys is affective advanced with the analysis apart and, adverse to claims, the government has no role in the proceedings, it is far from the truth.
It’s Attack on Freedom of Expression says Kevin Sutcliffe of Vice
Though the Turkish authorities are absolutely afraid that the three journalists may accept apparent the Turkish authorities’ role in suppressing the Kurdish government and that is why they took activity adjoin the three journalists, it actuality advised advance on the columnist and abandon of expression. Interestingly, there are accoutrement in the Turkey’s laws that the government could accept acclimated to prohibit the journalists to address on the Kurd protestors, the acumen cited by them has afraid the all-around media.
Painting any use of encryption amiss by the Turkish authorities is not a advantageous adumbration either. Even if the technology is actuality acclimated by the agitator organization, the purpose is different. It is affiliated to adage that as terrorists are application web hosting or online advance so none can use these technologies. Kevin Sutcliffe, Carnality arch of account programming for Europe, has protested adjoin this activity and said that the adjudicator has collapsed bottomless and alarmingly apocryphal accuse of ‘working on account of a agitator organization’ adjoin three Carnality Account reporters.
Kevin said that this is an attack to alarm and abridge their advantage and Vice News condemns in the arch accessible agreement the Turkish government’s attempts to blackout the reporters who accept been accouterment basic advantage from the region. He told the media that the alignment is alive with all accordant authorities to accelerate the safe absolution of the three colleagues and friends.
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