Life Terms for Turkish Journalists who Reported Shipping Arms to Syria Militants
Al-Manar | January 27, 2016
Turkish prosecutors demanded life sentences for two top journalists who reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government tried to ship arms to insurgents in Syria.
Prosecutors asked the Istanbul court to sentence Cumhuriyet newspaper’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul each to one aggravated life sentence, one ordinary life sentence and 30 years in jail, the Dogan news agency reported, quoting the indictment.
The report said that both Erdogan and his hugely powerful but low-profile ally, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Hakan Fidan, are named as plaintiffs in the indictment.
Dundar and Gul were both placed under arrest in late November over the report earlier in the year that claimed to show proof that a consignment of weapons seized at the border in January 2014 was bound for Takfiri militants in Syria.
Since then, they have both been held in the Silivri jail on the outskirts of Istanbul ahead of their trial, whose date has still yet to be announced.
In the indictment, they have been formally charged with obtaining and revealing state secrets “for espionage purposes” and seeking to “violently” overthrow the Turkish government as well as aiding an “armed terrorist organization”, it said.
The penalties demanded by the prosecutors are significantly higher than had previously been expected.
The case has amplified concerns about press freedom under the rule of Erdogan, who had personally warned Dundar he would “pay a price” over the front-page story.
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Jail for reporting what is so? The holohoax prosecutions have set a precedent.
According to Allan Sherman in “The Rape Of The Ape”, there may be “truth museums” where that rare commodity, truth, is on display. Sherman wonders if the makers of the truth museum will have the integrity not to fake the exhibits.
Another chapter argues whey lies are better than the truth.
Reminds of the 911 museum in New York, exhibits carefully designed and approved kosher by principals from the holohoax museum in Washington, D.C.
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The civilized world should show solidarity with these journalists, their families and their profession.
And Erdogan needs to be brought to heel–one hopes peacefully and by the Turkish people as a polity. I once was intrigued by his seeming independence of spirit and action, by his resistance to the evil of Zionism (Mavi Marmara), by his empathy for the Palestinians, etc. No more.
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