Turkish EU Minister approves journalists arrests December 1, 2011 - 17:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - None of the arrested journalists were detained for "their profession," Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bağış said recently during a speech at the EU Press Club. "They were detained either for some criminal allegations, either with the claim that they were members of an illegal organization or they were involved in the undemocratic toppling of a democratically elected government," Bağış told the Press Club audience. "There are much stronger anti-government members of the media. They're fine." The issue instead is their illegal activities, Bagış said, and "even the private conversations of the prime minister with his own wife, in his own bedroom" were recorded illegally. Bağış said the decision was not with his government, but with the judicial branch, for which his party was not allowed to recruit any new judges for the first eight and a half years of their rule, Hurriyet Daily News reported.   Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads.   Partner news |  Latest news Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates  Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan.Armenia not going to war over Karabakh, says Pashinyan Armenia is not preparing to fight a war for Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview. |
