A MAN SHOOTS AT COUNCIL OF STATE MEMBERS IN ANKARA - TURKIYE

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A man (Alparslan Aslan), lawyer by profession, today has entered the building of Council of State and entered a room where the memebers were aat a meeting. He shot 11 times killing one and wounding 4 others. He was caught on his way out and is now being questioned by the police. He has said that he did this because of a recent ruling of the members on an issue of a teacher covering her head. Turkiye is a secular republic and teachers, who are civil servants, should abide by the law. In their private lives they can live as they please. The governing party AKP (which is an islamic party - they are describing themselves as the muslim equivalent of christian democrats) is trying to pass this law and has started debate on the issue. The president has declared that this is an attack on the republic and its democratic foundations. The incident is likely to open heated debates among politicians which has started today at the national assembly especially among members of two parties, namely CHP (a left of center party) and AKP the majority party.
 
Here is an update of the above subject matter. All the TV channels today gave coverage of this funeral in which the ministers of the government who attended the funeral were booed and were ''saved'' by their bodyguards away to safe places (one was taken to the WC of the mosque). Today, the 19th of May, is a national holiday in Turkiye commemorating the 87th anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's landing in Samsun, to start the Turkish Independence War. More than 200,000 people have visited the tomb of Ataturk in Ankara in the past two days condemning the murder and also the present goverment. This movement are likely to spread to other cities.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=43875

Tens of thousands of mourners condemn the murder of a top judge and the wounding of four others by a gunman who opposed the headscarf ban, while the government calls for calm against the increasingly vocal accusations made against it

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

The murder of Council of State Second Bureau Judge Mustafa Y
 
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