Sami used a pillow to smother Layla.

Erdoğan has also misused the legal system to stifle the media and repress citizens freedom of expression.

Yet today, not only are many of Ukraine s neighbors silent about Yanukovich s strangulation of Ukraine s democracy, but some openly celebrate the supposed stability that his regime has imposed.

This is clearly an attempt by the Syrian Government to strangle the economy of Lebanon by impeding trade across their border, which is Lebanon's gateway to the rest of the Arab world and a means of continuing to interfere in Lebanese affairs.

But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.