Tunc said: “I do not regret supporting those who battle the most barbarous organization in the world. Was [the prosecutor] expecting me to remain silent in the face of IS kidnapping, enslavement and sale of women, their beheading of those not from them, and turning children into murderers?”
Yes, he was, because Turkey’s Erdogan was hoping to co-opt the Islamic State into his own restored Ottoman caliphate.
“Turkey sentences Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunc to two years in jail,” by Ari Khalidi, Kurdistan 24, September 25, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A Turkish court in Istanbul on Tuesday sentenced the Kurdish musician and singer, Ferhat Tunc, to one year, 11 months, and 12 days of imprisonment for his social media posts supporting US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State (IS).
He disseminated propaganda for a terrorist organization, a prosecutor who was asking for up to nine years of jail argued.
The trial of Tunc is the latest in thousands of cases targeting freedom of speech since a crackdown on the civil society, and Kurdish politicians began in mid-2016 under the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which emerged even more powerful in elections three months ago.
Tunc’s vocal support in 2014 and onward for the besieged defenders of the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) during a fierce IS assault right under the border with Turkey constituted a crime according to the Turkish judiciary.
His last album released in 2016 is named Kobani. With a political art career spanning three decades, he sings in Turkish and the Kurdish dialects of Kirmanjki (Zazaki) and Kurmanji.
Ankara views the US-allied People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria a terror group on the grounds it has ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“I do not regret supporting those who battle the most barbarous organization in the world,” a defiant Tunc told the court, Kurdistan 24’s Istanbul bureau reported.
“Was [the prosecutor] expecting me to remain silent in the face of IS kidnapping, enslavement and sale of women, their beheading of those not from them, and turning children into murderers? YPG defended people against an army of barbarians. I reject being accused of having mentioned the YPG and YPJ,” he added….
Walter Sieruk says
First, of course that is terrible and even worse the terrible that this man who is a singer is sentenced to two year in prison for opposing ISIS. Not only is this an awful affront against that man as well as a affront against what is good and right but this also raises the questions “Just what side is the Republic of Turkey actually on ? If turkey really our ally ? Is turkey on the side of the United States of America or America’s enemy ISIS ?”
Second , just this week on Tuesday 9/25/19 President Trump had in a speech declared “ISIS has been driven out of Iraq and Syria.” That statement by the President is true and its also very good news. Nevertheless it will ,in the long run, take more then ISIS losing much land to totally and completely defeat and destroy that vicious and murderous jihad entity. ISIS.
Third, there remains the ,very important, question “How to truly defeat ISIS once and for all ?” The answer to that question was provided in a speech by the ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, now dead, in this speech he had declared “True defeat is a loss of willpower and desire to fight…” he further explained “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Qur ‘an from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Qur ‘an the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Qur ‘an the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Qur ‘an as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 2:191.. 4:47 5::33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qur ‘an with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qur ‘an differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143] The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qur ‘an to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Qur ‘an is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Dale Netherton says
The whole idea of religion is a hoax based on imaginary constructs that are impossible in reality. This uncomfortable truth is denied and rationalized by millions who would rather pretend than observe and make rational conclusions.
Walter Sieruk says
First, shame on the Republic of Turkey for that totally unjust imprisonment of this Kurdish man for opposing ISIS.
Second, that fiendish and heinous jihadists of ISIS base their violent and murderous behavior on the instruction of violence and killing that is found in the Koran Sura 2:191. 4:89; 5:33. 9:5, 111,123. 47:4. For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Koran a person need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Koran. Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4. Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Koran, As some also call it the Qur’an. The Koran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “Though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preaches any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [K.J.V.] Therefore, the Koran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.
Anjuli Pandavar says
““We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Qur ‘an from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Qur ‘an the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Qur ‘an the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?””
I agree with most of what you say, but the very important question is not whether the Qur’an is true or not. If ISIS’ taunt is true, which it is, then the very important question is whether, and if so, how, the Qur’an can be removed from Muslims’ hearts. This in turn raises the question of how it got in there in the first place? Unfortunately, ISIS’ confident boast is justified. How do we breach this unassailable fortress, the Muslim heart? In my view, at the point where the Qur’an is inserted into it: the madrassas. Close them down, all of them, and we stand a chance. The die cannot be cast.
Of course, this is but one of a number of things that need to happen, but it’s the most important one, in my opinion.
gravenimage says
Turkey: Kurdish singer gets two years prison for opposing the Islamic State
Tunc said: “I do not regret supporting those who battle the most barbarous organization in the world. Was [the prosecutor] expecting me to remain silent in the face of IS kidnapping, enslavement and sale of women, their beheading of those not from them, and turning children into murderers?”
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Just appalling. Ferhat Tunc is a brave man.
How can Turkey continue to pretend they are an ally of the free West? Kick them out of NATO.
Hector Archytas says
EU allowed a lot of turc producing a lot of children in Europe already. No good.
Carolyne says
The Turks invaded Germany years ago posing a “Guest workers,” They multiplied like rabbits and continued their barbaric customs in Germany and they have overrun the country. This started before Merkel, but has become much worse since she became Chancellor. Any and all Muslims, no matter how uneducated or how unequipped to earn a living they are, they are welcomed into Germany. Germany, like the UK is lost.
Ade Fegan says
Leftie thinks ………….
If we let them build a mega mosque in Cologne they
are sure to be nice to us in return !