ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has arrested 16 Kurdish journalists and media persons pending trial after they were detained last week on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda, according to the Media and Law Studies Association and local media. said on Thursday.
He was detained for eight days in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir without being formally charged, after prosecutors had twice requested an extension, they said.
According to Demiroren and others, the five other journalists who were detained on June 8 were not imprisoned. Turkish media,
turkey More journalists have been jailed in the past decade than in most other countries, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, and several media groups condemned last week’s detentions as “brutal”.
Among those detained were Serdar Altan, co-head of the Decal Firat Journalists’ Association, Safiye Algas, head of Jin News, and Aziz Oruk, editor of the Mezopotamian news agency.
Mainly police on June 8 Kurdish diyarbakiro The Demiroren news agency reported that 21 journalists were detained on charges of campaigning for a terrorist organization in preparation for television shows to be broadcast from Belgium and Britain.
Demiroren quoted police sources as saying they were investigating a “press committee” of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PPK) group. Diyarbakir’s court declined to comment.
On Monday, 837 journalists and 62 media organizations issued a statement in support of their detained colleagues and condemned the detention following the police raid, calling it “a blow to the freedom of the press”.
It called on Turkey’s opposition to stand in solidarity with what it claims to be “law, justice, equality, liberty and democracy”. It also called on the judiciary to “not become an instrument of government’s illegality and tyranny”.
President Tayyip ErdoganThe government of India says that the courts are independent.
Turkey ranks 149th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, which describes it as a country in which “all possible means are used to undermine critics”.
He was detained for eight days in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir without being formally charged, after prosecutors had twice requested an extension, they said.
According to Demiroren and others, the five other journalists who were detained on June 8 were not imprisoned. Turkish media,
turkey More journalists have been jailed in the past decade than in most other countries, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, and several media groups condemned last week’s detentions as “brutal”.
Among those detained were Serdar Altan, co-head of the Decal Firat Journalists’ Association, Safiye Algas, head of Jin News, and Aziz Oruk, editor of the Mezopotamian news agency.
Mainly police on June 8 Kurdish diyarbakiro The Demiroren news agency reported that 21 journalists were detained on charges of campaigning for a terrorist organization in preparation for television shows to be broadcast from Belgium and Britain.
Demiroren quoted police sources as saying they were investigating a “press committee” of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PPK) group. Diyarbakir’s court declined to comment.
On Monday, 837 journalists and 62 media organizations issued a statement in support of their detained colleagues and condemned the detention following the police raid, calling it “a blow to the freedom of the press”.
It called on Turkey’s opposition to stand in solidarity with what it claims to be “law, justice, equality, liberty and democracy”. It also called on the judiciary to “not become an instrument of government’s illegality and tyranny”.
President Tayyip ErdoganThe government of India says that the courts are independent.
Turkey ranks 149th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, which describes it as a country in which “all possible means are used to undermine critics”.