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Turkey Arrests Journalists, Academic for 'Terror' Propaganda
Source: Associated Press
Turkey Arrests Journalists, Academic for 'Terror' Propaganda
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL — Jun 20, 2016, 5:00 PM ET
A Turkish court placed two Turkish journalists — including a local representative of Reporters Without Borders — and an academic in pretrial arrest Monday over charges of disseminating "terrorist propaganda," according to the press freedom rights group and Turkish media reports.
Reporters Without Borders' Erol Onderoglu, along with journalist Ahmet Nesin and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci, had participated in a solidarity campaign in support of Ozgur Gundem, a pro-Kurdish publication subject to multiple investigations and lawsuits. The private Dogan news agency said the campaign involved participants acting as chief editor for a day.
The three were ordered arrested after they testified before the public prosecutor with the state judiciary's Terrorism and Organized Crimes Bureau.
Fincanci, chair of Turkey's Human Rights Foundation, said during her testimony to the prosecutor that all of the articles on the day she acted as editor "should be covered by the principles of freedom of thought and expression," the agency reported.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL — Jun 20, 2016, 5:00 PM ET
A Turkish court placed two Turkish journalists — including a local representative of Reporters Without Borders — and an academic in pretrial arrest Monday over charges of disseminating "terrorist propaganda," according to the press freedom rights group and Turkish media reports.
Reporters Without Borders' Erol Onderoglu, along with journalist Ahmet Nesin and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci, had participated in a solidarity campaign in support of Ozgur Gundem, a pro-Kurdish publication subject to multiple investigations and lawsuits. The private Dogan news agency said the campaign involved participants acting as chief editor for a day.
The three were ordered arrested after they testified before the public prosecutor with the state judiciary's Terrorism and Organized Crimes Bureau.
Fincanci, chair of Turkey's Human Rights Foundation, said during her testimony to the prosecutor that all of the articles on the day she acted as editor "should be covered by the principles of freedom of thought and expression," the agency reported.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-arrests-journalists-academic-terror-propaganda-39991399
