The story that I am focusing on is the open letter "We Will not Be a Party to This Crime," written and signed by over 1,000 Turkish academics and 355 academics from around the world. It calls out the Turkish government for oppressing and murdering the roughly 20 million Kurds living within its borders. The Turkish government responded by investigating and detaining signatories and publicly calling Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics, a terrorist. The link to the letter itself only works if you've registered for the site, so I just included a link to a page that describes it.
The original video of this speech is over an hour long and didn't include English subtitles, so I pulled a shortened version from the youtube channel Kurdistan. Although this channel is pro-Kurdish, the video clip has not been edited from the original speech. The commentary at the end will be considered a separate source as it advances the channel's agenda.
Erdoğan has received a lot of criticism from western powers, specifically NATO allies, about his government's relationship with the Kurds. By pinning this terrorist attack, which killed ten European tourists, on those criticizing the government the president both discredits those opposing him and appears sympathetic after the attack.
My second video source is Noam Chomsky himself. In this thirty minute interview with Al Jazeera on January 23, Chomsky addresses Erdoğan's attack the Kurds' role in the fight against ISIS. Chomsky doesn't focus much on the snub in the interview and focused on bigger issues within Turkey instead.
My first source is a youtube video of Turkish President Erdoğan following the recent suicide bombing Sultanahmet Square. In it he calls for action against academics who wrote and signed the letter "We Will not Be a Party to This Crime." He calls all of them terrorists but singles out Noam Chomsky.
The original video of this speech is over an hour long and didn't include English subtitles, so I pulled a shortened version from the youtube channel Kurdistan. Although this channel is pro-Kurdish, the video clip has not been edited from the original speech. The commentary at the end will be considered a separate source as it advances the channel's agenda.
Erdoğan has received a lot of criticism from western powers, specifically NATO allies, about his government's relationship with the Kurds. By pinning this terrorist attack, which killed ten European tourists, on those criticizing the government the president both discredits those opposing him and appears sympathetic after the attack.
My second video source is Noam Chomsky himself. In this thirty minute interview with Al Jazeera on January 23, Chomsky addresses Erdoğan's attack the Kurds' role in the fight against ISIS. Chomsky doesn't focus much on the snub in the interview and focused on bigger issues within Turkey instead.
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