First reporters go on hearing over Turkey manoeuvre bid
Turkish special force soldiers mount ensure during a building on Dec 27, 2016 during silivri district inIstanbul. PHOTO: AFP
Almost 30 Turkish military will go on conference in Istanbul on Dec 27, 2016 charged with impasse in a Jul 15 manoeuvre bid, a city’s initial conference of purported putschists. With indictments prepared opposite over 1,200 people, and some 41,000 underneath detain in total, a trials following a unsuccessful manoeuvre opposite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to be a many inclusive authorised routine in Turkish history. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
ISTANBUL: Prominent reporters were among 17 people who went on conference in Istanbul on Monday on charges of links to a organisation allegedly behind final year’s unsuccessful coup, in a box that has amplified concerns over press leisure in Turkey.
The conference is a initial to embody reporters arrested in tie with a Jul 15 manoeuvre underneath a state of puncture imposed shortly after. More cases are set to go to justice in a subsequent few months.
All those on conference are indicted of links to a US-based Muslim minister Fethullah Gulen who Ankara says masterminded a bid to reject Erdogan. The manoeuvre left 249 dead, not including a plotters.
Ten of a 17 suspects are on a run while 6 sojourn in control and another stays giveaway tentative trial, an AFP match said.
Those indicted embody a maestro author Nazli Ilicak who was one of a really initial reporters arrested in Jul after a coup. Briefly an MP from 1999, she wrote for dailies including Hurriyet.
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Also on conference is Ahmet Altan, a writer and publisher who has also created for some of Turkey’s best dailies including Hurriyet and Milliyet as good as first a antithesis daily Taraf.
Another distinguished think is Mehmet Altan, Ahmet Altan’s brother, who has created books on Turkish politics.
Both were incarcerated in early Sep nonetheless Ahmet Altan was expelled in mid-September before fast being re-arrested.
Along with a detain of a dozen staff from a antithesis Cumhuriyet daily — who are being attempted in a apart box — a charges opposite a brothers have focussed regard over leisure of countenance in Turkey.
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Turkey’s bestselling and Nobel-winning author, Orhan Pamuk, lashed out during a detain of Ahmet Altan, warning that Turkey was streamer towards apropos “a regime of terror”.
Amongst a other charges, a dual Altan brothers and Ilicak are indicted of appearing together on a TV uncover on a pro-Gulen channel only before a manoeuvre and arising a summary that a putsch was in a offing.
Representatives of rights and leisure of countenance groups Article 19, Amnesty International, Index on Censorship, Norwegian PEN and PEN International are attending a hearing.
The jailed reporters and staff of a Cumhuriyet daily — including a paper’s stream editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, maestro commentator Kadri Gursel and cartoonist Musa Kart — are due to go on conference on Jul 24.
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