Turkish EU Minister approves journalists arrestsDecember 1, 2011 - 17:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - None of the arrested journalists were detained for "their profession," Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bağış said recently during a speech at the EU Press Club. "They were detained either for some criminal allegations, either with the claim that they were members of an illegal organization or they were involved in the undemocratic toppling of a democratically elected government," Bağış told the Press Club audience. "There are much stronger anti-government members of the media. They're fine." The issue instead is their illegal activities, Bagış said, and "even the private conversations of the prime minister with his own wife, in his own bedroom" were recorded illegally. Bağış said the decision was not with his government, but with the judicial branch, for which his party was not allowed to recruit any new judges for the first eight and a half years of their rule, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865. Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Border residents overnight on highway to protest Armenia’s Residents of Kirants continue to express outrage over the government’s decision to cede land to Azerbaijan. Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. |