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Monday, December 22, 2014

Wikileaks sheds light on Turkey’s mysterious ‘Annotators’ - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Wikileaks sheds light on Turkey’s mysterious ‘Annotators’

It has become almost a Turkish tradition now to have a new criminal case every season in which the nation gets bitterly divided. The latest example is the case of “Tahsiyeciler,” or “Annotators,” which is a small Islamist community based in eastern Turkey. More than 120 members of this group were detained in January 2010 for alleged al-Qaeda ties, and 11 of them spent months in prison. But now the government, and a like-minded prosecutor, argues that this was in fact a scheme cooked up by “parallel state” of the Gulen movement in order to crack down on an innocent rival group.

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