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29 April
Journalists in State of Emergency - 138
“KCK press trial” adjourned again; 18 defendants separated from “Zaman trial” make final defense statements; at least 184 journalists behind bars
The 14th hearing of the “KCK Press trial,” in which 46 journalists face “membership in a terrorist group” and “leadership of a terrorist group” charges, was held on April 27, 2018, at the Istanbul 3rd High Criminal Court.
Çağdaş Ulus, one of the 46 journalists standing trial in the case, as well as the journalists’ lawyers were present at the hearing. The lawyers requested the lifting of the travel bans imposed on the suspects, which the court rejected on grounds of the statutory decree nr. 667. The court adjourned the trial until September 7, 2018.
18 defendants separated from Zaman trial appear before court
Eighteen defendants whose files were separated from the ongoing trial into the columnists and employees of the shuttered Zaman newspaper appeared before the 13th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on April 27. They began making their final defense statements in response to the accusations in the prosecutor’s final opinion, submitted during the previous hearing.
Eight of the defendants -- Hüseyin Turan, Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Murat Avcıoğlu, Osman Nuri Arslan, Ahmet İrem, Zafer Özsoy, Alaattin Güner and Cuma Kaya -- gave their defense statements during Friday’s session. The lawyer representing defendant Osman Nuri Öztürk requested that his file is separated from this case, while the court decided to hear the statement of Şeref Yılmaz at a later session after his lawyer refused to address the court during Friday’s session on grounds of new evidence against him to have been presented through witness testimony.
The hearing will continue with more defense statements on Monday, April 30.
Ahmet Altan acquitted of “insulting the president” charge
On April 26, imprisoned novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan was acquitted of “insulting the president” at the end of the seventh and final hearing of a trial in which the accusation was based on his remarks in an interview he gave in April 2015 to the news website Grihat, headlined “Saraylarda oturabilmek için gencecik çocukları öldürüyorlar” (They’re killing children so that they can live in palaces).
To read more about the hearing, monitored in the courtroom by P24, click here.
Court maintains travel ban imposed on Meşale Tolu
The latest hearing in a case where Etkin news agency (ETHA) reporter and translator Meşale Tolu is standing trial alongside 26 others was held on April 26 at the 29th High Criminal Court of Istanbul. Tolu faces “membership in a terrorist organization” and “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization” charges. The court rejected the request to lift the travel ban imposed on some of the defendants in the case, including Tolu, and adjourned the trial until October 16.
A detailed report about the hearing can be found here.
Cumhuriyet journalists convicted of “aiding terrorist organization”
Fourteen columnists and executives of Cumhuriyet daily were convicted of “aiding a terrorist organization without being its member” at the final hearing of the Cumhuriyet trial on April 25, held at a courtroom inside the Silivri Prison compound. The 27th High Criminal Court of Istanbul handed down prison sentences varying between 2.5 years and 7.5 years to 14 of the newspaper’s columnists and executives standing trial in the case, while acquitting three of the suspects and separating the files of two journalists from the case.
A detailed report about the hearing can be found here.
Journalist Erdoğan Alayumat remains behind bars in 2nd hearing
The second hearing of a case in which journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman are standing trial on account of their reporting and news photography, risking up to 45 years in prison each on “espionage” and “membership in a terrorist organization” charges, was held on April 25 at the 2nd High Criminal court of Hatay.
Alayumat participated in the hearing via the courtroom video-conferencing system SEGBİS from the Samsun Bafra Prison, where he is currently in detention on remand.
Alayumat’s lawyer Tugay Bek told the court that the photographs taken by Alayumat, which the accusations leveled against the journalist are based on, were purely aimed as news photography.
In its interim ruling, the court adjourned the trial until May 23, awaiting the Turkish General Staff response to a writ in which the court inquired about the said photographs. The court also ordered the continuation of Alayumat’s pretrial detention.
İsmail Küçükkaya handed down suspended prison sentence
A Turkish court on April 25 handed down journalist İsmail Küçükkaya and his lawyer Fidel Okan prison sentences of 1 year, 4 months and 20 days each for “insulting a public official” and “degrading the organs and institutions of the state.” The case was based on a claim the journalist had voiced during a news program he hosted on Fox TV, in which he had said the husband of Turkey’s Minister of Family and Social Policy was a “ByLock user.” The court suspended both sentences.
Journalist Fuat Yaşar to stand trial for his social media posts
Fuat Yaşar, a Diyarbakır-based reporter for the news website 1HaberVar, will appear before the 9th High Criminal Court of Diyarbakır in the coming months as part of a trial in which the accusations are based on the journalist’s social media posts.
Yaşar had given his statement to the anti-terror police on March 22 as part of an investigation launched following an anonymous complaint concerning the journalist’s social media posts. Based on an anonymous tip off, a public prosecutor had opened an investigation, accusing Yaşar of “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization.”
Hayatın Sesi TV “propaganda” trial adjourned until September
Three executives of the shuttered Hayatın Sesi TV station gave their defense statements before the 13th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on April 24 at the fourth hearing of a trial in which they each face up to 13 years in prison on the charge of “conducting continuous propaganda for a terrorist organization.” The court adjourned the trial over the lawyers’ request for additional time and set September 19, 2018, as the date of the next hearing.
You can read more about the hearing, monitored in the courtroom by P24, here.
Former Zaman representative Çetinkaya freed over health issues
An Antalya court on April 24 sentenced Tuncer Çetinkaya, the former Antalya regional representative for the shuttered Zaman newspaper, to 7.5 years in prison for “membership in a terrorist organization.” Çetinkaya had been jailed pending trial as part of the case, based on an investigation into the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016. Çetinkaya was standing trial along with 13 other suspects. The court ruled to release Çetinkaya from detention under judicial control measures over health concerns.
Evrensel reporter Cansu Pişkin faces investigation over news story
Evrensel reporter Cansu Pişkin is facing a criminal investigation for a news report she penned concerning the prosecutor appointed to investigate the Boğaziçi University students who have been jailed over staging an anti-war demonstration.
The journalist is accused in the investigation file of “marking the identity of a state official assigned in fight against terrorism as a target.”
Pişkin reported in her story that the prosecutor assigned to the investigation concerning the Boğaziçi students on April 3, the day on which the students were referred to court, had claimed in a previous indictment that the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) was a political party “operating under the guidance of a terrorist group.”
Other freedom of expression cases of the week past
A prosecutor on April 26 requested prison sentences for nine more academics who are standing trial on “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization” charges for signing 2016’s Academics for Peace declaration. The prosecutor requested prison sentences for İbrahim Kaboğlu, Güven Gürkan Öztan, İpek Merçil, Oğuz Arıcı, Gülhan Türkay, Sinan Yıldırmaz, Taner Gören, Mehmet Rıza Türkay and Yücel Candemir at the second hearings of their respective trials overseen by the 36th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on Thursday. Lawyers representing the academics requested the extension of the investigations. The court rejected the requests and adjourned all nine trials until October 23, 2018.
Lütfiye Bozdağ and Feryal Delfin Saygılıgil, two more academics who also signed the Academics for Peace declaration, appeared at the first hearings of their respective trials on the same charge before the 37th High Criminal court of Istanbul, which rejected their lawyers’ requests to merge the cases and adjourned the trials to October 17, and 16.
Onur Kılıç, an Izmir-based politician from the left-wing Freedom and Solidarity
Party (ÖDP), was arrested during a police raid on his home on April 26 in Izmir. Kılıç was among a number of individuals taken into custody during the same operation. The grounds for their arrests were their social media posts.
P24 updates its list of jailed journalists and media workers
P24 has updated its list of jailed journalists and media workers, a list compiled from open sources using information available to the general public.
Following the latest developments in April, including Akın Atalay and Tuncer Çetinkaya’s recent releases under judicial control measures, and the jailing earlier this month of the owner of Gün Matbaacılık, Kasım Zengin, and 19 employees of the printing company as part of an investigation targeting the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, there are at least 184 journalists and media workers either in pretrial detention or serving prison sentences in Turkey’s prisons as of April 28, 2018.
The full list can be accessed here.
1 Abdulkadir Turay, DİHA reporter
2 Abdullah Kaya, DİHA
3 Abdullah Kılıç, Habertürk
4 Abdullah Özyurt, Zaman reporter
5 Abdulvahap İş, freelance journalist
6 Adil Demirci, ETHA reporter
7 Ahmet Altan
8 Ahmet Feyzullah Özyurt
9 Ahmet Memiş, Haberdar news website
10 Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Zaman journalist
11 Ahmet Turan Alkan, Zaman
12 Ahmet Yavaş, TRT (Erzurum)
13 Alaattin Güner, Cihan media director
14 Ali Ahmet Böken, TRT News coordinator
15 Ali Akkuş, Zaman
16 Ali Aşikar, Azadiya Welat
17 Ali Babür Boysal, Zaman page designer
18 Ali Bulaç, former Zaman columnist
19 Ali Sönmez Kayar, ETHA reporter
20 Ali Ünal, Zaman columnist
21 Ali Yüce, TRT Radio broadcasts chief
22 Arafat Dayan, Demokratik Ulus
23 Aslı Ceren Aslan, Özgür Gelecek
24 Ayşe Nazlı Ilıcak
25 Ayşenur Parıldak, Zaman, Haberdar
26 Aytekin Gezici, journalist/writer
27 Aziz İstegün, Diyarbakır Zaman representative
28 Barış Ceyhan, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employee
29 Bayram Kaya, Zaman reporter
30 Behram Kılıç
31 Beytullah Özdemir, Zaman Düzce bureau chief
32 Burçin Dokgöz, former Zaman and Çorum reporter
33 Cemal Azmi Kalyoncu, Journalists and Writers’ Foundation
34 Cemal Tunç, Gün Matbaacılık employee
35 Ceren Taşkın, Hatay'ın Sesi
36 Cuma Kaya, Zaman
37 Cuma Ulus, Millet newspaper’s publications coordinator
38 Cumali Öz, Gün Matbaacılık employee
39 Cüneyt Seza Özkan, Samanyolu TV
40 Çetin Kurşun, Azadiya Welat
41 Emin Demir, freelancer
42 Emre Soncan, Zaman defense reporter
43 Ercan Gün, Fox TV
44 Erdal Süsem, Eylül magazine editor
45 Erdal Şen, former Meydan managing editor
46 Erdoğan Alayumat, Dihaber reporter
47 Erdoğan Zamur, Gün Matbaacılık employee
48 Erol Yüksel, TRT News Department vice president
49 Erol Zavar, Odak magazine owner and newsroom director
50 Fahrettin Kılıç, Özgür Toplum
51 Faruk Akkan, Cihan news agency
52 Ferhat Çiftçi, Azadiya Welat Gaziantep bureau chief
53 Ferhat Parlak, Silvan Mücadele newspaper owner
54 Fevzi Yazıcı, Zaman chief designer
55 Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Türksolu columnist
56 Gurbet Çakar, Hevi women’s magazine
57 Gültekin Avcı
58 Habip Güler, Zaman reporter
59 Hakan Aksel, TRT producer-director
60 Hakan Ergün, Azadiya Welat and Özgür Gündem distributor
61 Hakan Taşdelen
62 Halil İbrahim Mert, TRT (Erzurum)
63 Hamit Dilbahar, Azadiya Welat columnist
64 Hamza Günerigök, TRT
65 Hanım Büşra Erdal, Zaman reporter and columnist
66 Hasan Duman, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi distributor
67 Hatice Duman, Atılım newspaper owner and managing editor
68 Havva Cuştan, ETHA reporter
69 Hayati Yıldız, Azadiya Welat
70 Haydar Ergül, Demokratik Modernite editor
71 Hicran Ürün, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
72 Hidayet Karaca, Samanyolu Media Group president
73 Hüseyin Aydın, Cihan reporter
74 Hüseyin Turan, Zaman columnist
75 İbrahim Kareyeğen, responsible editor for Zaman
76 İdris Okur, Cihan New Agency Çorum reporter
77 İdris Sayılgan, DİHA
78 İdris Yılmaz
79 İhsan Sinmiş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
80 İhsan Yaşar, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi owner
81 İrfan Karaca, Gün Matbaacılık employee
82 İshak Karakaş, Hakın Nabzı editor-in-chief
83 İshak Yasul, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi responsible managing editor
84 İsmail Ersan, Anatolia news agency
85 İsminaz Temel, ETHA editor
86 Kamuran Sunbat, former DİHA Çukurova reporter
87 Kasım Zengin, owner of Gün Matbaacılık
88 Kazım Göçer, Gün Matbaacılık employee
89 Kemal Daşdöğen, Gün Matbaacılık employee
90 Kemal Demir, TV 10
91 Kemal Özer, Evrensel
92 Kenan Karavil, Radyo Dünya editor-in-chief
93 Kubilay Çelik, Antropolog magazine responsible managing editor
94 Mahmut Abay, Gün Matbaacılık employee
95 Mehmet Ali Ay
96 Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
97 Mehmet Altan
98 Mehmet Baransu, Taraf columnist/reporter
99 Mehmet Dener, Şanlıurfa.com editor-in-chief
100 Mehmet Dursun
101 Mehmet Emin Sümeli, Gün Matbaacılık employee
102 Mehmet Güleş, DİHA
103 Mehmet Gündem
104 Mehmet Kadir Özkara, Gün Matbaacılık employee
105 Mehmet Kuru, Zaman Eskişehir reporter
106 Mehmet Özdemir, Zaman columnist
107 Meltem Oktay, DİHA reporter
108 Mikail Barut, Özgür Halk former editor
109 Miktat Algül, Mezitli FM broadcast coordinator
110 Mizgin Çay, Radyo Karacadağ
111 Muhammed Sait Kuloğlu, owner of Subuhaber.com
112 Muhammet Özkan, Gün Matbaacılık employee
113 Muhammet Taşçılar, Şanlıurfa.com editor-in-chief
114 Muhsin Pilgir, Zaman and Cihan news agency
115 Murat Avcıoğlu, Zaman
116 Murat Çapan, Nokta
117 Murat Dağdeviren, Demokrat Gebze owner
118 Musa Kaya, Gün Matbaacılık employee
119 Mustafa Erkan Acar, Bugün news editor
120 Mustafa Gök, Ankara bureau chief for Ekmek ve Adalet magazine
121 Mustafa Göktaş, Özgür Gündem Şanlıurfa reporter
122 Mustafa Ünal, Zaman
123 Mutlu Çölgeçen, Millet, newsroom coordinator
124 Mutlu Özay, Cihan reporter
125 Mümtazer Türköne, Zaman columnist
126 Mürsel Demir, Gün Matbaacılık employee
127 Nadir Yücel, Çorum Yıldız local newspaper editor-in-chief
128 Necat Hizarcı, Gün Matbaacılık employee
129 Nedim Türfent, DİHA
130 Nizamettin İzgi, Batman newspaper owner
131 Nuh Gönültaş, Bugün columnist
132 Nuri Durna, TRT
133 Nuri Yeşil, Azadiya Welat Dersim bureau chief
134 Nurullah Kaya, Gaziantep Zaman representative
135 Oğuz Usluer, Habertürk former broadcasts coordinator
136 Osman Yakut, Zaman Antalya
137 Ömer Oruç, Cihan newspaper
138 Özcan Keser, TRT reporter
139 Özgür Bozkurt, Gün Matbaacılık employee
140 Pınar Gayıp, ETHA reporter
141 Pınar Tarlak, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employee
142 Polat Arslan, Gün Matbaacılık employee
143 Rabia Özkaya, Özgür Halk
144 Ramazan Alkan, Yeni Akit reporter
145 Resul Cengiz, Denizli reporter with Zaman
146 Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
147 Sadettin Demirtaş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
148 Sadık Demir, Radyo Karacadağ
149 Sait Gürkan Tuzlu, Cihan reporter
150 Salih Erbekler, Radyo Karacadağ
151 Sami Tunca, Mücadele Birliği magazine managing editor
152 Seda Taşkın, Mezopotamya News Agency reporter
153 Semiha Mete, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi reporter/distributor
154 Semiha Şahin, ETHA editor
155 Serhat Şeftali, Zaman regional bureau chief for the Med region
156 Serkan Aydemir, Bitlis Aktüel reporter
157 Serpil Ünal, Mücadele Birliği reporter
158 Sertan Önal, Halkın Günlüğü reporter
159 Seyid Kılıç, TRT News
160 Seyithan Akyüz, Azadiya Welat Adana bureau chief
161 Songül Yücel, Önsöz editor in chief
162 Süleyman Acar, Mücadele Birliği editor in chief
163 Süleyman Güneş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
164 Şahabettin Demir, DİHA reporter
165 Şeref Yılmaz, Irmak TV
166 Şerife Oruç, DİHA reporter
167 Togay Okay, Özgür Gelecek
168 Tuncer Çetinkaya, Zaman Antalya
169 Turgut Usul, TRT reporter
170 Ufuk Şanlı, former Vatan columnist
171 Uğur Selman Kelekçiler, Gün Matbaacılık employee
172 Ünal Tanık, Rota Haber editor-in-chief
173 Vahit Yazgan, İzmir Zaman bureau chief
174 Veli Büyükşahin, TV10 executive
175 Veli Haydar Güleç, TV10 executive
176 Yakup Çetin, Zaman reporter
177 Yakup Şimşek, Zaman, marketing director
178 Yalçın Güler, TRT (Erzurum)
179 Yener Dönmez, Habervaktim news website
180 Yetkin Yıldız, Aktif Haber website editor
181 Yılmaz Kahraman, Özgür Halk editor
182 Zafer Özsoy
183 Zehra Doğan, Jinha
184 Ziya Ataman, DİHA reporter
Çağdaş Ulus, one of the 46 journalists standing trial in the case, as well as the journalists’ lawyers were present at the hearing. The lawyers requested the lifting of the travel bans imposed on the suspects, which the court rejected on grounds of the statutory decree nr. 667. The court adjourned the trial until September 7, 2018.
18 defendants separated from Zaman trial appear before court
Eighteen defendants whose files were separated from the ongoing trial into the columnists and employees of the shuttered Zaman newspaper appeared before the 13th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on April 27. They began making their final defense statements in response to the accusations in the prosecutor’s final opinion, submitted during the previous hearing.
Eight of the defendants -- Hüseyin Turan, Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Murat Avcıoğlu, Osman Nuri Arslan, Ahmet İrem, Zafer Özsoy, Alaattin Güner and Cuma Kaya -- gave their defense statements during Friday’s session. The lawyer representing defendant Osman Nuri Öztürk requested that his file is separated from this case, while the court decided to hear the statement of Şeref Yılmaz at a later session after his lawyer refused to address the court during Friday’s session on grounds of new evidence against him to have been presented through witness testimony.
The hearing will continue with more defense statements on Monday, April 30.
Ahmet Altan acquitted of “insulting the president” charge
On April 26, imprisoned novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan was acquitted of “insulting the president” at the end of the seventh and final hearing of a trial in which the accusation was based on his remarks in an interview he gave in April 2015 to the news website Grihat, headlined “Saraylarda oturabilmek için gencecik çocukları öldürüyorlar” (They’re killing children so that they can live in palaces).
To read more about the hearing, monitored in the courtroom by P24, click here.
Court maintains travel ban imposed on Meşale Tolu
The latest hearing in a case where Etkin news agency (ETHA) reporter and translator Meşale Tolu is standing trial alongside 26 others was held on April 26 at the 29th High Criminal Court of Istanbul. Tolu faces “membership in a terrorist organization” and “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization” charges. The court rejected the request to lift the travel ban imposed on some of the defendants in the case, including Tolu, and adjourned the trial until October 16.
A detailed report about the hearing can be found here.
Cumhuriyet journalists convicted of “aiding terrorist organization”
Fourteen columnists and executives of Cumhuriyet daily were convicted of “aiding a terrorist organization without being its member” at the final hearing of the Cumhuriyet trial on April 25, held at a courtroom inside the Silivri Prison compound. The 27th High Criminal Court of Istanbul handed down prison sentences varying between 2.5 years and 7.5 years to 14 of the newspaper’s columnists and executives standing trial in the case, while acquitting three of the suspects and separating the files of two journalists from the case.
A detailed report about the hearing can be found here.
Journalist Erdoğan Alayumat remains behind bars in 2nd hearing
The second hearing of a case in which journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman are standing trial on account of their reporting and news photography, risking up to 45 years in prison each on “espionage” and “membership in a terrorist organization” charges, was held on April 25 at the 2nd High Criminal court of Hatay.
Alayumat participated in the hearing via the courtroom video-conferencing system SEGBİS from the Samsun Bafra Prison, where he is currently in detention on remand.
Alayumat’s lawyer Tugay Bek told the court that the photographs taken by Alayumat, which the accusations leveled against the journalist are based on, were purely aimed as news photography.
In its interim ruling, the court adjourned the trial until May 23, awaiting the Turkish General Staff response to a writ in which the court inquired about the said photographs. The court also ordered the continuation of Alayumat’s pretrial detention.
İsmail Küçükkaya handed down suspended prison sentence
A Turkish court on April 25 handed down journalist İsmail Küçükkaya and his lawyer Fidel Okan prison sentences of 1 year, 4 months and 20 days each for “insulting a public official” and “degrading the organs and institutions of the state.” The case was based on a claim the journalist had voiced during a news program he hosted on Fox TV, in which he had said the husband of Turkey’s Minister of Family and Social Policy was a “ByLock user.” The court suspended both sentences.
Journalist Fuat Yaşar to stand trial for his social media posts
Fuat Yaşar, a Diyarbakır-based reporter for the news website 1HaberVar, will appear before the 9th High Criminal Court of Diyarbakır in the coming months as part of a trial in which the accusations are based on the journalist’s social media posts.
Yaşar had given his statement to the anti-terror police on March 22 as part of an investigation launched following an anonymous complaint concerning the journalist’s social media posts. Based on an anonymous tip off, a public prosecutor had opened an investigation, accusing Yaşar of “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization.”
Hayatın Sesi TV “propaganda” trial adjourned until September
Three executives of the shuttered Hayatın Sesi TV station gave their defense statements before the 13th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on April 24 at the fourth hearing of a trial in which they each face up to 13 years in prison on the charge of “conducting continuous propaganda for a terrorist organization.” The court adjourned the trial over the lawyers’ request for additional time and set September 19, 2018, as the date of the next hearing.
You can read more about the hearing, monitored in the courtroom by P24, here.
Former Zaman representative Çetinkaya freed over health issues
An Antalya court on April 24 sentenced Tuncer Çetinkaya, the former Antalya regional representative for the shuttered Zaman newspaper, to 7.5 years in prison for “membership in a terrorist organization.” Çetinkaya had been jailed pending trial as part of the case, based on an investigation into the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016. Çetinkaya was standing trial along with 13 other suspects. The court ruled to release Çetinkaya from detention under judicial control measures over health concerns.
Evrensel reporter Cansu Pişkin faces investigation over news story
Evrensel reporter Cansu Pişkin is facing a criminal investigation for a news report she penned concerning the prosecutor appointed to investigate the Boğaziçi University students who have been jailed over staging an anti-war demonstration.
The journalist is accused in the investigation file of “marking the identity of a state official assigned in fight against terrorism as a target.”
Pişkin reported in her story that the prosecutor assigned to the investigation concerning the Boğaziçi students on April 3, the day on which the students were referred to court, had claimed in a previous indictment that the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) was a political party “operating under the guidance of a terrorist group.”
Other freedom of expression cases of the week past
A prosecutor on April 26 requested prison sentences for nine more academics who are standing trial on “conducting propaganda for a terrorist organization” charges for signing 2016’s Academics for Peace declaration. The prosecutor requested prison sentences for İbrahim Kaboğlu, Güven Gürkan Öztan, İpek Merçil, Oğuz Arıcı, Gülhan Türkay, Sinan Yıldırmaz, Taner Gören, Mehmet Rıza Türkay and Yücel Candemir at the second hearings of their respective trials overseen by the 36th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on Thursday. Lawyers representing the academics requested the extension of the investigations. The court rejected the requests and adjourned all nine trials until October 23, 2018.
Lütfiye Bozdağ and Feryal Delfin Saygılıgil, two more academics who also signed the Academics for Peace declaration, appeared at the first hearings of their respective trials on the same charge before the 37th High Criminal court of Istanbul, which rejected their lawyers’ requests to merge the cases and adjourned the trials to October 17, and 16.
Onur Kılıç, an Izmir-based politician from the left-wing Freedom and Solidarity
Party (ÖDP), was arrested during a police raid on his home on April 26 in Izmir. Kılıç was among a number of individuals taken into custody during the same operation. The grounds for their arrests were their social media posts.
P24 updates its list of jailed journalists and media workers
P24 has updated its list of jailed journalists and media workers, a list compiled from open sources using information available to the general public.
Following the latest developments in April, including Akın Atalay and Tuncer Çetinkaya’s recent releases under judicial control measures, and the jailing earlier this month of the owner of Gün Matbaacılık, Kasım Zengin, and 19 employees of the printing company as part of an investigation targeting the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, there are at least 184 journalists and media workers either in pretrial detention or serving prison sentences in Turkey’s prisons as of April 28, 2018.
The full list can be accessed here.
1 Abdulkadir Turay, DİHA reporter
2 Abdullah Kaya, DİHA
3 Abdullah Kılıç, Habertürk
4 Abdullah Özyurt, Zaman reporter
5 Abdulvahap İş, freelance journalist
6 Adil Demirci, ETHA reporter
7 Ahmet Altan
8 Ahmet Feyzullah Özyurt
9 Ahmet Memiş, Haberdar news website
10 Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Zaman journalist
11 Ahmet Turan Alkan, Zaman
12 Ahmet Yavaş, TRT (Erzurum)
13 Alaattin Güner, Cihan media director
14 Ali Ahmet Böken, TRT News coordinator
15 Ali Akkuş, Zaman
16 Ali Aşikar, Azadiya Welat
17 Ali Babür Boysal, Zaman page designer
18 Ali Bulaç, former Zaman columnist
19 Ali Sönmez Kayar, ETHA reporter
20 Ali Ünal, Zaman columnist
21 Ali Yüce, TRT Radio broadcasts chief
22 Arafat Dayan, Demokratik Ulus
23 Aslı Ceren Aslan, Özgür Gelecek
24 Ayşe Nazlı Ilıcak
25 Ayşenur Parıldak, Zaman, Haberdar
26 Aytekin Gezici, journalist/writer
27 Aziz İstegün, Diyarbakır Zaman representative
28 Barış Ceyhan, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employee
29 Bayram Kaya, Zaman reporter
30 Behram Kılıç
31 Beytullah Özdemir, Zaman Düzce bureau chief
32 Burçin Dokgöz, former Zaman and Çorum reporter
33 Cemal Azmi Kalyoncu, Journalists and Writers’ Foundation
34 Cemal Tunç, Gün Matbaacılık employee
35 Ceren Taşkın, Hatay'ın Sesi
36 Cuma Kaya, Zaman
37 Cuma Ulus, Millet newspaper’s publications coordinator
38 Cumali Öz, Gün Matbaacılık employee
39 Cüneyt Seza Özkan, Samanyolu TV
40 Çetin Kurşun, Azadiya Welat
41 Emin Demir, freelancer
42 Emre Soncan, Zaman defense reporter
43 Ercan Gün, Fox TV
44 Erdal Süsem, Eylül magazine editor
45 Erdal Şen, former Meydan managing editor
46 Erdoğan Alayumat, Dihaber reporter
47 Erdoğan Zamur, Gün Matbaacılık employee
48 Erol Yüksel, TRT News Department vice president
49 Erol Zavar, Odak magazine owner and newsroom director
50 Fahrettin Kılıç, Özgür Toplum
51 Faruk Akkan, Cihan news agency
52 Ferhat Çiftçi, Azadiya Welat Gaziantep bureau chief
53 Ferhat Parlak, Silvan Mücadele newspaper owner
54 Fevzi Yazıcı, Zaman chief designer
55 Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Türksolu columnist
56 Gurbet Çakar, Hevi women’s magazine
57 Gültekin Avcı
58 Habip Güler, Zaman reporter
59 Hakan Aksel, TRT producer-director
60 Hakan Ergün, Azadiya Welat and Özgür Gündem distributor
61 Hakan Taşdelen
62 Halil İbrahim Mert, TRT (Erzurum)
63 Hamit Dilbahar, Azadiya Welat columnist
64 Hamza Günerigök, TRT
65 Hanım Büşra Erdal, Zaman reporter and columnist
66 Hasan Duman, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi distributor
67 Hatice Duman, Atılım newspaper owner and managing editor
68 Havva Cuştan, ETHA reporter
69 Hayati Yıldız, Azadiya Welat
70 Haydar Ergül, Demokratik Modernite editor
71 Hicran Ürün, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
72 Hidayet Karaca, Samanyolu Media Group president
73 Hüseyin Aydın, Cihan reporter
74 Hüseyin Turan, Zaman columnist
75 İbrahim Kareyeğen, responsible editor for Zaman
76 İdris Okur, Cihan New Agency Çorum reporter
77 İdris Sayılgan, DİHA
78 İdris Yılmaz
79 İhsan Sinmiş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
80 İhsan Yaşar, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi owner
81 İrfan Karaca, Gün Matbaacılık employee
82 İshak Karakaş, Hakın Nabzı editor-in-chief
83 İshak Yasul, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi responsible managing editor
84 İsmail Ersan, Anatolia news agency
85 İsminaz Temel, ETHA editor
86 Kamuran Sunbat, former DİHA Çukurova reporter
87 Kasım Zengin, owner of Gün Matbaacılık
88 Kazım Göçer, Gün Matbaacılık employee
89 Kemal Daşdöğen, Gün Matbaacılık employee
90 Kemal Demir, TV 10
91 Kemal Özer, Evrensel
92 Kenan Karavil, Radyo Dünya editor-in-chief
93 Kubilay Çelik, Antropolog magazine responsible managing editor
94 Mahmut Abay, Gün Matbaacılık employee
95 Mehmet Ali Ay
96 Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
97 Mehmet Altan
98 Mehmet Baransu, Taraf columnist/reporter
99 Mehmet Dener, Şanlıurfa.com editor-in-chief
100 Mehmet Dursun
101 Mehmet Emin Sümeli, Gün Matbaacılık employee
102 Mehmet Güleş, DİHA
103 Mehmet Gündem
104 Mehmet Kadir Özkara, Gün Matbaacılık employee
105 Mehmet Kuru, Zaman Eskişehir reporter
106 Mehmet Özdemir, Zaman columnist
107 Meltem Oktay, DİHA reporter
108 Mikail Barut, Özgür Halk former editor
109 Miktat Algül, Mezitli FM broadcast coordinator
110 Mizgin Çay, Radyo Karacadağ
111 Muhammed Sait Kuloğlu, owner of Subuhaber.com
112 Muhammet Özkan, Gün Matbaacılık employee
113 Muhammet Taşçılar, Şanlıurfa.com editor-in-chief
114 Muhsin Pilgir, Zaman and Cihan news agency
115 Murat Avcıoğlu, Zaman
116 Murat Çapan, Nokta
117 Murat Dağdeviren, Demokrat Gebze owner
118 Musa Kaya, Gün Matbaacılık employee
119 Mustafa Erkan Acar, Bugün news editor
120 Mustafa Gök, Ankara bureau chief for Ekmek ve Adalet magazine
121 Mustafa Göktaş, Özgür Gündem Şanlıurfa reporter
122 Mustafa Ünal, Zaman
123 Mutlu Çölgeçen, Millet, newsroom coordinator
124 Mutlu Özay, Cihan reporter
125 Mümtazer Türköne, Zaman columnist
126 Mürsel Demir, Gün Matbaacılık employee
127 Nadir Yücel, Çorum Yıldız local newspaper editor-in-chief
128 Necat Hizarcı, Gün Matbaacılık employee
129 Nedim Türfent, DİHA
130 Nizamettin İzgi, Batman newspaper owner
131 Nuh Gönültaş, Bugün columnist
132 Nuri Durna, TRT
133 Nuri Yeşil, Azadiya Welat Dersim bureau chief
134 Nurullah Kaya, Gaziantep Zaman representative
135 Oğuz Usluer, Habertürk former broadcasts coordinator
136 Osman Yakut, Zaman Antalya
137 Ömer Oruç, Cihan newspaper
138 Özcan Keser, TRT reporter
139 Özgür Bozkurt, Gün Matbaacılık employee
140 Pınar Gayıp, ETHA reporter
141 Pınar Tarlak, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employee
142 Polat Arslan, Gün Matbaacılık employee
143 Rabia Özkaya, Özgür Halk
144 Ramazan Alkan, Yeni Akit reporter
145 Resul Cengiz, Denizli reporter with Zaman
146 Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi editor
147 Sadettin Demirtaş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
148 Sadık Demir, Radyo Karacadağ
149 Sait Gürkan Tuzlu, Cihan reporter
150 Salih Erbekler, Radyo Karacadağ
151 Sami Tunca, Mücadele Birliği magazine managing editor
152 Seda Taşkın, Mezopotamya News Agency reporter
153 Semiha Mete, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi reporter/distributor
154 Semiha Şahin, ETHA editor
155 Serhat Şeftali, Zaman regional bureau chief for the Med region
156 Serkan Aydemir, Bitlis Aktüel reporter
157 Serpil Ünal, Mücadele Birliği reporter
158 Sertan Önal, Halkın Günlüğü reporter
159 Seyid Kılıç, TRT News
160 Seyithan Akyüz, Azadiya Welat Adana bureau chief
161 Songül Yücel, Önsöz editor in chief
162 Süleyman Acar, Mücadele Birliği editor in chief
163 Süleyman Güneş, Gün Matbaacılık employee
164 Şahabettin Demir, DİHA reporter
165 Şeref Yılmaz, Irmak TV
166 Şerife Oruç, DİHA reporter
167 Togay Okay, Özgür Gelecek
168 Tuncer Çetinkaya, Zaman Antalya
169 Turgut Usul, TRT reporter
170 Ufuk Şanlı, former Vatan columnist
171 Uğur Selman Kelekçiler, Gün Matbaacılık employee
172 Ünal Tanık, Rota Haber editor-in-chief
173 Vahit Yazgan, İzmir Zaman bureau chief
174 Veli Büyükşahin, TV10 executive
175 Veli Haydar Güleç, TV10 executive
176 Yakup Çetin, Zaman reporter
177 Yakup Şimşek, Zaman, marketing director
178 Yalçın Güler, TRT (Erzurum)
179 Yener Dönmez, Habervaktim news website
180 Yetkin Yıldız, Aktif Haber website editor
181 Yılmaz Kahraman, Özgür Halk editor
182 Zafer Özsoy
183 Zehra Doğan, Jinha
184 Ziya Ataman, DİHA reporter
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