National security operatives’ manhandling of Caleb Kudah a ‘slap on media freedom’ – ASEPA Listen to article
Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has described the manhandling of Citi News Caleb Kudah as a slap to media freedom.
Mr. Kudah was arrested at the National Security Ministry on Tuesday for filming abandoned MASLOC vehicles parked at the premises of the Ministry.
He was then brutalised by the security officers.
A team of seven heavily-armed police officers subsequently attempted to detain
Citi News‘ Zoe Abu-Baidoo Addo at the premises of
Citi FM/Citi TV in a ‘Rambo’ style.
The officers took the action because Caleb had forwarded some of the footage he captured to Zoe via WhatsApp.
Turkey forces detect tunnel dug from Syria
Vehicles of Turkish Armed Forces in Hatay, Turkey on 17 February 2020 [Burak Milli/Anadolu Agency] May 1, 2021 at 3:08 pm
Turkish Border guards detected a tunnel dug from Syria to Turkey, said the country s National Defence Ministry on Saturday,
Anadolu Agency reports. Thanks to the vigilance of our heroic border guards in [the southern] Hatay province, it was found that a tunnel was dug from Syria to Turkey, the ministry said on Twitter.
A generator, two hammer drills, a wheelbarrow, 300-meter cable, digger, shovel, and battery used in the excavation work were seized, it said.
Suspected 1 PKK, 2 FETO terror group members caught on Turkey’s northwestern, southern borders Merve Berker | 20.04.2021
ANKARA
A total of five people, including at least three terror suspects, were arrested on Turkey’s both northwestern and southern borders while trying to flee to Greece and Syria through illegal means, according to the National Defense Ministry on Tuesday.
The ministry said on Twitter that one of the arrested was a suspected member of the PKK terror group, while two were allegedly linked with Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey.
FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and 2,734 injured.
Overseas missions helping with online exemption process
Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne. File photo/Jeff Mayers -
THIS country s overseas missions will be doing what they can to help TT nationals trying to return home, use the new online application system for travel exemption requests being launched by the National Security Ministry on Monday.
This was disclosed on Saturday by Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne. In a statement about the new system on Saturday, the National Security Ministry indicated, As of January 21, 2021, 19,941 applications were made to enter TTand 11,682 of those had been granted.