when i was researching this book is the paradise like other things is an intellectual and social construct and just as there is a paper trail in the spanish illusion that gold was to be found in florida, by the way i just want to clarify one thing it begins with the first massacre of white men in the western hemisphere certainly and north america and this is how our history began with a spanish learned there was nothing to be found. it was only tradition in florida, that was before they found out that they had established a settlement in jacksonville so they tore across the atlantic and massacred several hundred frenchmen and that is the beginning of the history. as i say in the beginning ifA Canadian woman has reportedly been arrested in Turkey for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Facebook.

Ece Heper, 50, was arrested in the northeastern city of Kars and charged on 30 December, her lawyer Sertac Celikkaleili told The Canadian Press​.

Ms Heper, who has dual Canadian and Turkish citizenship, is a resident of Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian authorities have said they are offering consular assistance, but are yet to release any further information over privacy concerns.

It could take at least a month before Ms Heper's case goes to trial, her friend Emrah Bayram told the BBC.

Her friends say Ms Heper suffers from "some health issues" and expressed concern about her access to medicine while detained.

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