We want justice (07.02.2017)
Our colleagues who have been targeted in the operation to silence Cumhuriyet have been waiting 100 days for the indictment. Objections are denied on copy and paste grounds.
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Press professional organisations are calling for the indictment against our colleagues who were arrested in swoops on their homes 100 days ago to be drafted without delay and for their remand to end.
TURKISH JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATION CHAIR TURGAY OLCAYTO:
The lengthy time on remand amounts to a kind of extrajudicial sentence.
TURKISH JOURNALISTS' UNION GENERAL CHAIR GÖKHAN DURMUŞ:
They are purposely causing delay by not drafting the indictments.
PROGRESSIVE JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION GENERAL CHAIR AHMET ABAKAY:
The press has never been under government pressure to this extent.
PRESS WORKERS' UNION OF THE CONFEDERATION OF PROGRESSIVE TRADE UNIONS CHAIR FARUK EREN:
Journalists and the opposition are being intimidated.
Cumhuriyet raised
A Venice Commission delegation visiting Turkish parliament asked MPs about the remanded journalists. With CHP deputies stressing that newspapers are portrayed to the outside world as being ‘supporters of terrorism,’ Gülsün Bilgehan said, ‘You know me and Cumhuriyet is the paper I read.’