> Broomfield said: “It seems clear the Schengen ban and my harassment by the UK police are driven by direct or indirect pressure from Turkey, on the basis of my work and reporting in Rojava and around the Kurdish issue.”
This sort of crap is nothing new unfortunately. Erdogan's Turkey has been abusing international cooperation agreements at scale [1], not to mention holding up Sweden's entry to NATO, purely to fight against legitimate domestic resistance against his quasi-dictatorship/sultanate/caliphate (depending on whom you ask, but Turkey is certainly no democracy anymore). And that repression includes journalists such as Deniz Yücel [2], even foreign TV shows [3] and comedians [4] - everyone who criticises Erdogan or recognizes the Armenian genocide becomes a target.
And where legal avenues fail, there is always the Grey Wolves, nominally a terrorist group, and closely linked to the Turkish government, to do Erdogan's bidding [5].
As for why no one does anything to hold Erdogan accountable... the answer to that is simple, he threatens to unleash refugees like he did in the past [6], and Turkey's cooperation regarding the Bosporus is vital in the Ukraine war.
[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/87260/after-spotlight-on-red-no...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C3%BCcel
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdowie,_Erdowo,_Erdogan
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)
[6] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-strongly-rejects-turkeys-use-of-mig...
This sort of crap is nothing new unfortunately. Erdogan's Turkey has been abusing international cooperation agreements at scale [1], not to mention holding up Sweden's entry to NATO, purely to fight against legitimate domestic resistance against his quasi-dictatorship/sultanate/caliphate (depending on whom you ask, but Turkey is certainly no democracy anymore). And that repression includes journalists such as Deniz Yücel [2], even foreign TV shows [3] and comedians [4] - everyone who criticises Erdogan or recognizes the Armenian genocide becomes a target.
And where legal avenues fail, there is always the Grey Wolves, nominally a terrorist group, and closely linked to the Turkish government, to do Erdogan's bidding [5].
As for why no one does anything to hold Erdogan accountable... the answer to that is simple, he threatens to unleash refugees like he did in the past [6], and Turkey's cooperation regarding the Bosporus is vital in the Ukraine war.
[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/87260/after-spotlight-on-red-no...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Y%C3%BCcel
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdowie,_Erdowo,_Erdogan
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)
[6] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-strongly-rejects-turkeys-use-of-mig...