pakatan HarApan: MENTERI Ke-3 meletakkan jawatan di tengah-tengah Siasatan RASUAH . . .

SitiWanMahani - Seorang menteri kabinet ke-3 telah meletakkan jawatan di Turki dalam ruang 24 jam di tengah-tengah skandal rasuah. Menafikan sebarang salah laku, Alam Sekitar dan Menteri Urbanisasi Erdogan Bayraktar mengatakan bahawa dia adalah di bawah tekanan untuk berhenti dan jika dia mesti berbuat demikian, Perdana Menteri Recep Tayyip Erdogan harus mengikuti.

Skandal ini semakin menyelubungi kerajaan Islam umbi Erdogan. Anak Bayraktar telah ditahan secara ringkas siasatan di peringkat tinggi rasuah. Menteri Interior Muammer Güler dan Menteri Ekonomi Zafer Caglayan di mana anak-adalah antara 24 orang dalam tahanan polis sejak tuduhan itu meletus pada 17 Disember, meletak jawatan lebih awal pada hari Rabu.

Turkey: Third minister quits amid corruption probe

A third cabinet minister has resigned in Turkey in the space of 24 hours amid a corruption scandal. Denying any wrongdoing, Environment and Urbanisation Minister Erdogan Bayraktar says that he was under pressure to quit and that if he must do so, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should follow suit.

The scandal is increasingly engulfing Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government. Bayraktar's son was briefly detained in the high-level corruption probe. Interior Minister Muammer Guler and Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, whose sons are among 24 people in police custody since the affair erupted on December 17, resigned earlier on Wednesday.

Kerajaan Erdogan Turki digegarkan

oleh kuasa rasuah . . .

SitiWanMahani - Di mata orang-orang Turki banyak yang menentang, kuasa autoritarian Perdana Menteri mereka adalah di bawah tekanan kerana mungkin tidak pernah sebelum ini. Islam umbi AK pihak Recep Tayyip Erdogan dilihat telah mengalami pukulan.

Ini datang di tengah-tengah kebimbangan yang meluas bahawa kebebasan badan kehakiman boleh disalahgunakan dalam penyiasatan skandal rasuah besar melibatkan menteri-menteri dalam kerajaan Erdogan.

Hari selepas tangkapan awal, beliau bercakap mengenai manipulasi politik. Beliau berkata: “Ini adalah satu operasi yg sangat kotor.” Pada hujung minggu, kerajaan Erdogan berubah peraturan polis, jadi pegawai penyiasat perlu melaporkan bukti, tangkapan dan aduan kepada pemerintah pegawai dan pendakwa.

Perjuangan Ankara terhadap anti-rasuah siasatan badan kehakiman telah melihat dia memecat atau menyerahhakkan semula 70 pegawai-pegawai polis yang terlibat, termasuk ketua tenaga Istanbul. Penyokong Perdana Menteri meningkat pada pembelaannya.

Skandal terbaru telah meletakkan persaingan kosong antara Erdogan dan Fethullah Gulen, seorang ulama Turki yang kini menetap di Amerika Syarikat, yang penterjemah pergerakan mendakwa sekurang-kurangnya satu juta pengikut, termasuk kanan polis dan hakim, dan yang juga berjalan sekolah-sekolah dan badan amal di seluruh Turki dan di luar negara.

Walaupun tidak dinamakan di dalam urusan ini, dan menafikan sebarang peranan di dalamnya, selepas perdana menggambarkan dirinya sebagai menangkis konspirasi antarabangsa, Gulen berkata pemikiran Erdogan telah “reput”. Penterjemah Gulen ini (“Perkhidmatan”) pergerakan juga mempunyai ahli-ahli dalam pemerintah AK parti. Apa-apa pakatan parti tersebut dengannya - yang menjamin kejayaan pilihan raya AK itu sehingga 2011 - mula runtuh beberapa bulan yang lalu.

Keputusan pada November untuk menutup salah satu pertubuhan pendidikan confraternity ini membawa penjanaan perisai, dan berlepas dari pihak Erdogan daripada 2 orang ahli parlimen.

Peletakan jawatan dalaman, ekonomi dan alam sekitar menteri atas dakwaan rasuah yang melibatkan pemberi pinjaman negeri yang dikendalikan Halkbank menyumbang kepada reigniting perasaan anti-kerajaan, yang telah menggelegak sejak massa jalan-bantahan di pertengahan tahun ini. Salah satu perhimpunan bantahan yang paling baru-baru ini di Istanbul telah secara paksa tersebar oleh pihak polis.

Turkey's Erdogan government rocked by corruption forces

In the eyes of many dissenting Turks, the authoritarian power of their Prime Minister is under pressure as perhaps never before. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK party is seen to have suffered a blow.

This comes amid widespread concerns that the independence of the judiciary could be abused in the investigation into a vast corruption scandal involving ministers in Erdogan's government.

The day after early arrests, he spoke of political manipulations. He said: "This is an extremely dirty operation." At the weekend, the Erdogan government changed police rules, so investigating officers have to report evidence, arrests and complaints to commanding officers and prosecutors.

Ankara's fight against the judiciary's anti-corruption probe has seen him sack or reassign some 70 of the police officers involved, including the chief of the Istanbul force. The prime minister's supporters rallied in his defence.

The latest scandal has laid bare rivalry between Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric now based in the US, whose Hizmet movement claims at least one million followers, including senior police and judges, and which also runs schools and charities across Turkey and abroad.

While not named in the affair, and denying any role in it, after the premier portrayed himself as fending off an international conspiracy, Gulen said Erdogan's thinking had "decayed". Gulen's Hizmet ("Service") movement even has members within the ruling AK party. Any alliance the party had with it - which sealed the AK's electoral success up until 2011 - began to fall apart several months ago.

A decision in November to close one of the confraternity's educational establishments brought a raising of shields, and the departure from Erdogan's party of two members of parliament.

The resignations of the interior, economy and environment ministers over corruption allegations involving state-run lender Halkbank contributed to reigniting anti-government feeling, which has been simmering since mass street-protests halfway through this year. One of the most recent protest rallies in Istanbul was forcibly dispersed by the police.

Kegilaan Gadai JANJI: Penghutang Ireland melihat KeBANKrapan Kebankrapan sebagai Jalan keluar . . .

SitiWanMahani - Krisis ini mungkin hanya kira-kira lebih di Ireland, tetapi untuk pemilik rumah Ireland ia masih sukar menjaga serigala2 dari pintunya. Sehingga 20 % peratus daripada bayaran gadai janji tertunggak dengan keluarga di seluruh negara ini dipaksa keluar apabila rumah mereka ditarik. Satu pemilik rumah memberitahu RT Tesa Arcilla bagaimana dia hidup dalam ketakutan - Bank.

Mortgage madness: Irish debtors see bankruptcy

as way out . . .

The crisis may be just about over in Ireland, but for Irish homeowners it's still tough keeping the wolves from the door. Up to 20 per cent of mortgage payments are overdue with families across the country being forced out when their homes are repossessed. One homeowner told RT's Tesa Arcilla how he lives in fear - of the banks.

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Mengesan-Drone: Panduan untuk Hidup memberitahu

kepada baka baru pemangsa Udara . . .

SitiWanMahani - Predator udara: panduan hidup berdengung membantu ramai dengan mengesan UAV. Satu dekad peperangan Drone Amerika di Yaman dan Pakistan telah mening-galkan penduduk dalam ketakutan daripada suatu serangan bila-bila masa, di mana sahaja - dan pada sesiapa. Tahun ini menyaksikan mangsa awam memberi kete-rangan di hadapan Kongres Amerika Syarikat - tetapi cerita-cerita mereka telah melambai jauh oleh White House yang menegaskan serangan anti-pengganas adalah sesuatu yg kecil tepat. Dalam kejadian terbaru, sehingga 17 orang terbunuh dalam satu majlis perkah-winan luar bandar di Yaman.

Untuk membincangkan isu peperangan Drone Amerika, kita menyertai secara langsung oleh Rubin Pater - dia mencipta “panduan survival Drone” - sebuah manual yang menceri-takan pelbagai jenis Drone selain dan bagaimana untuk terus hidup dari serbuannya.

Aerial Predator: Drone survival guide helps masses

with UAV spotting . . .

A decade of America's drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan has left the population in fear of a strike anytime, anywhere - and on anyone. This year saw civilian victims testify before the U.S. Congress - but their stories were waved away by the White House that insists these anti-terrorist attacks are pinpoint accurate. In the latest incident, up to 17 people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in Yemen.

To discuss the issue of American drone warfare, we are joined live by Rubin Pater - he created a "drone survival guide" - a manual telling the different kinds of drone apart and how to survive their raids.