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Protests accompany the process against journalists

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Protests accompany the process against journalists

Many supporters came to Istanbul to support for Can Dündar and Erdem Gül. In the courtroom, they were not allowed: The controversial process took place under the exclusion of the Public.

The defendant “Cumhuriyet”editor-in-chief Can Dündar showed up in front of the court building, convinced that he and his colleague Erdem Gül are free. “We will win, we have won in the past,” said Dündar. Around him many supporters, including members of the Opposition gathered again. They shouted slogans such as “freedom of The press can not be Silenced.”

According to media reports, the court ordered that during the process of day to take journalists to prison again. Observers saw this as a good sign. The judge, however, decided to extend your ban. The process was conducted on the 22. April is postponed.

The two journalists are accused of spying. You threatened in the event of a conviction, long prison life. Their newspaper “Cumhuriyet” reported in may, the Turkish secret service have helped the delivery of weapons to extremists in Syria.

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The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had personally filed a criminal complaint. The Public was excluded after the trial opening a week ago with reference to the “national security” from the process.

A Diplomatic Scandal

The process had caused in the past few days, not only for sharp criticism at home and abroad, but also for diplomatic tensions. Erdogan had reacted furiously to the presence of foreign diplomats at the trial, among them the German Ambassador, Martin Erdmann. “This is not your country, this is the Turkey”, was in an uproar Erdogan in a speech. According to information from diplomatic circles, the government in Ankara, officially to the involved embassies to Protest, Erdmann was summoned to the foreign Ministry – wide Changes within a week; previously, it had gone to the Erdogan-Satire on NDR-television magazine “extra 3”.

The Turkish government is particularly incensed about publications of diplomats on Twitter. The British General was Consul there are several photos, including a Selfie with Dündar.

Endangered The Freedom Of The Press

Critics of the Turkish government’s increasingly repressive crackdown on the opposition media. On a ranking of the state of the press freedom of reporters without borders, Turkey ranks 149 out of 180 countries.

Dündar and Gül had come to the end of February after three months in detention on the orders of the constitutional court provisionally free. Dozens more journalists are imprisoned in the country.

bor/rb (afp, reuters, dpa)

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