<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>EU-Logos</provider_name><provider_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>EU-Logos</author_name><author_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu/author/infoeu-logos-org/</author_url><title>[#FACTOFTHEDAY: attack in southern Turkey; killed 8 people and injured 100, following the massive government arrests ]</title><html>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said a car bomb targeting a police station had exploded Friday, and killed eight people, including six civilians and two police officers. Yildirim said 100 people were also injured in the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Turkish authorities blamed the Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party (PKK) for the attack, especially as the explosion happened only a couple of hours after the arrest of 11 members of parliament from a pro-Kurdish political party. Party leaders, Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas were among those arrested.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Since the July failed coup, Erdogan and his government have been accused of cracking down on dissidents. Likewise, 110.000 people have been purged and around 40.000 have been imprisoned. As a matter of fact: Just last week-end, 10.000 civil were fired.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Those people were working in very different sectors of society such as government, military, courts, media and academia. The United Nations&rsquo; human rights office said on Friday that the Turkish government was going &laquo;&nbsp;beyond what is permissible&nbsp;&raquo;, she added, &laquo;&nbsp;There needs to be a presumption of innocence when you’re going to suspend somebody from their job, when you’re going to detain somebody, you need to do this in line with due process,&nbsp;&raquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;A lot of antidemocratic measures have also been taken; more than 160 media outlets have been shut down while internet restrictions have been increasingly used to suppress media coverage during political incidents in order to prevent civil unrest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;In October, the state of emergency has also been extended for another three months which basically means that any opposition figures will risk to be jailed without due process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Europe has grown increasingly concerned over the violation of the rule of law in the country. Yet, since the signature of the Turkey-EU agreement, when Turkey agreed to take back migrants in exchange for billions in aid money and visa-free travel, Turkey has had a way to pressure the Union.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Yet, European Parliament&rsquo;s Vice President Alexander Graf Lambsdorff said visa-free travel for Turkish citizens was unlikely by 2017, due to the Turkish government&rsquo;s crackdown and purges.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The pressure between the Turkey and European leaders is increasing, notably on the German side. Likewise, President Erdogan yesterday accused Germany of being a « haven for terrorist » that would be « judged by history » as Germany has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years. He added that they “are concerned that Germany has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organization”.&lt;/p&gt;
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