Sibel Sevinç Deveci, an istanbul-based lawyer, has been detained due to her social media posts, deemed to be making propaganda on behalf of the Gülen movement. Deveci was detained at his home as part of an investigation in İstanbul on Tuesday.
Her detention came three days after he tweeted: “As a judicial member I know that they will try to pretend like they did not supported the AKP. It will happen very soon. Do not forget.” These postings has drawn harsh reaction from pro-government social media accounts since then.
Deveci is accused of making propaganda for the Gülen movement. Pro-government Hürriyet daily reported Deveci also posted, at the night of the coup, the following tweets: “We have nothing to do on streets. The soldiers belong to us,” “Nothing bad comes from whatever our soldiers do,” “They are trying to Turkish soldiers against our soldiers,” ”They are calling on everybody including the President, Interior Minister and AKP provincial heads to get to the streets,” “ Do not dare.”
The Turkish government has prosecuted 1,539 lawyers, arrested 580 and sentenced 103 lawyers to long prison terms since a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a report released by The Arrested Lawyers Initiative.
Turkey survived a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement.
Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.
Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants since July 15. On December 13, 2017 the Justice Ministry announced that 169,013 people have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on April 18, 2018 that the Turkish government had jailed 77,081 people between July 15, 2016 and April 11, 2018 over alleged links to the Gülen movement. (SCF with turkeypurge.com)
from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/turkish-govt-detains-istanbul-lawyer-over-her-social-media-posts/
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