JamaliahYusofYacob - Permintaan Turki untuk mengeluarkan gambar seorang budak lelaki dari satu pameran di Geneva, Switzerland, telah ditolak. Gambar itu mendakwa bahawa ketika itu PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan telah terlibat secara langsung dalam kes kematian seorang kanak-kanak di tengah-tengah bantahan anti-kerajaan pada tahun 2013.
"Geneva tidak akan membenarkan mana-mana negara dipengaruhi dalam perkara ini. Geneva dan Switzerland berdiri untuk kebebasan bersuara, "Naib Datuk Bandar Guillaume Barazzone memberitahu media Swiss.
Place des Nations di hadapan Pejabat PBB, di mana pameran itu sedang diadakan, adalah contoh yang baik kebebasan ini kerana ini adalah "di mana minoriti mesti berupaya untuk menyatakan" pendapat mereka, katanya.
"Oleh itu majlis pentadbiran akan menyokong pameran ini dan ia adalah daripada soalan untuk membuang gambar ini."
Demir Sönmez, seorang jurugambar Swiss asal Kurdis dan Armenia, berkata beliau terkejut dengan tindak balas Turki ke pameran itu.
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“Geneva will not allow any country to be influenced in this matter. Geneva and Switzerland stand for freedom of expression,” Vice Mayor Guillaume Barazzone told Swiss media.
Place des Nations in front of the UN Office, where the exhibition is being staged, is a good example of this freedom as this is “where minorities must be able to express” their opinions, he added.
“Therefore the administrative council will support this exhibition and it is out of the question to remove this photograph.”
Demir Sönmez, a Swiss photographer of Kurdish and Armenian origin, said he is appalled by the Turkish reaction to his exhibition.
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"Saya terkejut, tetapi pada masa yang sama saya tidak terkejut, kerana Encik Erdogan dan kerajaannya tidak mempunyai toleransi jua untuk kebebasan bersuara dan kebebasan maklumat," katanya, seperti yang dipetik oleh Reuters.
“I am shocked, but at the same time I am not surprised, because Mr Erdogan and his government have no tolerance whatsoever for freedom of expression and freedom of information,” he said, as cited by Reuters.
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Skandal itu berlaku kelmarin apabila Ankara menuntut Switzerland mengeluarkan gambar Berkin Elvan, seorang budak lelaki yang telah parah cedera pada Jun 2013 semasa demonstrasi besar-besaran terhadap Perdana Menteri Recep Tayyip Erdogan itu di Gezi Park Istanbul.
"Nama saya Berkin Elvan. polis membunuh saya, atas perintah Perdana Menteri Turki, "kata ‘caption’ di bawah gambar Elvan.
Pada 16 Jun, 2013, Elvan meninggalkan rumah untuk membeli roti, kata keluarganya. Dalam perjalanan pulang dia dipukul di kepala dengan kanister gas pemedih mata yang dilepaskan oleh polis semasa pertempuran dengan penunjuk perasaan.
Budak lelaki itu meninggal dunia di hospital pada usia 15 selepas menghabiskan 269 hari dalam keadaan koma. Ibunya, Gulsum Elvan, menyalahkan kematiannya pada Erdogan, yang memuji "kepahlawanan legenda" polis dalam anti-kerajaan perhimpunan kembali pada bulan Jun 2013.
The scandal broke out on Monday when Ankara demanded Switzerland remove a photo of Berkin Elvan, a boy who was fatally injured in June 2013 during mass demonstrations against then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Istanbul’s Gezi Park.
“My name is Berkin Elvan. The police killed me, on the order of Turkey's prime minister,” says the caption under the photo of Elvan.
On June 16, 2013, Elvan left home to buy some bread, his family said. On the way back he was hit in the head with a tear gas canister that was fired by police during clashes with protesters.
The boy died in hospital at the age of 15 after spending 269 days in a coma. His mother, Gulsum Elvan, blamed his death on Erdogan, who praised the “legendary heroism” of police in anti-government rallies back in June 2013.
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Kematian kanak-kanak itu mencetuskan bantahan besar-besaran di Turki; ramai di antara mereka menyebabkan pertempuran antara penunjuk perasaan dan polis.
Kedutaan Turki di ibu negara Switzerland Bern mengesahkan pada hari Selasa bahawa mereka telah cuba untuk "mewujudkan hubungan lisan dengan pihak berkuasa bandar Geneva" untuk memberitahu mereka bahawa gambar Elvan ini dibangkitkan "reaksi" tertentu oleh pertubuhan-pertubuhan bukan kerajaan Turki yang berpangkalan di Geneva.
Ini bukan kali pertama Erdogan telah cuba untuk melaksanakan pengaruh ke atas media asing.
Pada bulan April, Jerman memulakan siasatan terhadap TV pelawak Jan Boehmermann puisinya mengkritik presiden Turki selepas Erdogan memfailkan saman peribadi terhadapnya. komik ini sedang berhadapan pendakwaan di bawah undang-undang yang jarang digunakan yang menghukum mereka yang menghina orang-orang kenamaan asing.
Konsulat Turki di Rotterdam melalui e-mel organisasi Turki dengan permintaan itu mereka melaporkan "menghina" komen mengenai "Presiden kita, bangsa Turki atau Turki secara umum." Dalam giliran jahat, surat itu merujuk kepada "segala-galanya yang dikongsi di Twitter, Facebook dan walaupun dalam e-mel peribadi."
Beberapa wartawan EU telah dibenarkan masuk ke Turki pada bulan kebelakangan ini. Pada bulan April, wartawan Belanda Ebru Umar berkata, beliau secara ringkas ditahan di Turki berhubung tulisan Twitter mengkritik Erdogan. Juga pada bulan April, seorang wartawan TV untuk penyiar Jerman ARD Volker Schwenck, yang telah pergi ke sempadan Turki-Syria untuk melaporkan pelarian, menghabiskan masa 6 jam ditahan di lapangan terbang Istanbul selepas dibenarkan masuk ke dalam Turki.
Pada bulan Mac wartawan untuk berpengaruh Jerman majalah Der Spiegel, Hasnain Kazim, terpaksa meninggalkan negara ini oleh pihak berkuasa Turki selepas kelayakan akhbarnya tidak diperbaharui. ‘Editor-in-chief ‘majalah itu menuduh Turki melanggar kebebasan akhbar.
The boy’s death sparked mass protests in Turkey; many of them resulted in violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
Turkey’s embassy in the Swiss capital Bern confirmed on Tuesday that they had been trying to “establish verbal contact with the Geneva city authorities” to inform them that Elvan’s photograph raised certain “reactions” by Geneva-based Turkish non-governmental organizations.
This is not the first time Erdogan has tried to exercise influence over foreign media.
In April, Germany opened an investigation into TV comedian Jan Boehmermann's poem criticizing the Turkish president after Erdogan filed a personal lawsuit against him. The comic now faces prosecution under a rarely-used law that punishes those who insult foreign dignitaries.
The Turkish consulate in Rotterdam emailed Turkish organizations with the request they report “derogatory” comments about “our President, the Turkish nation or Turkey in general.” In a sinister turn, the letter refers to "everything that's being shared on Twitter, Facebook and even in private emails."
A number of EU journalists have been denied entry to Turkey in recent months. In April, Dutch journalist Ebru Umar said she was briefly detained in Turkey over Twitter posts critical of Erdogan. Also in April, a TV journalist for German broadcaster ARD Volker Schwenck, who was going to the Turkish-Syrian border to report on refugees, spent six hours detained at Istanbul airport after being refused entry into Turkey.
In March a correspondent for the influential German magazine Der Spiegel, Hasnain Kazim, was forced to leave the country by Turkish authorities after his press credentials weren’t renewed. The magazine’s editor-in-chief accused Turkey of violating press freedom.
