The rights of two female writers

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked U.S. officials in New York why a Turkish citizen with Iranian origins, businessman Reza Zarrab, was under arrest.

He said, "As a matter of fact, because he is our citizen, we have to look into his rights. This could have been not Reza Zarrab, but another citizen." 

This is what it means to be a big country. Big countries are keen to protect the rights of their citizens even if they have committed the heaviest crime. The U.S., the United Kingdom, France and Germany, etc., no matter what part of the world, no matter what kind of crime has been committed, they all follow up on their citizens like this.  

Because of this, I do not understand those who criticize this attitude of the president. In my opinion, he acted rightfully. 

And taking courage from these words of the president, I request from him that there are other Turkish citizens who are under arrest. It would be good if their rights were also looked into.   

For instance, writers Aslı Erdoğan and Necmiye Alpay have been under arrest for more than a month. They did not kill anybody, they did not steal, they did not bribe anybody. They are not terrorists; they have not written one line which praised terror. They are not members of any secret organization. If the Gülenists were successful in their coup attempt, they, too, would have imprisoned them. 

Why are Erdoğan and Alpay under arrest? The president should get his advisers to seriously look into who played a role in this. He should question who would benefit from and use as a tool two valuable and innocent writers of ours being in prison.  

This guy is a sex addict  

Mahmut Bayram, the provincial education direction in the Mediterranean...