A Turkish court ruled to release Şerife Oruç, a jailed Kurdish journalist for the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), on probation during the fourth hearing of her trial in which she stands accused of membership in a “terrorist group,” the Evrensel daily reported on Monday.
Oruç was working for DİHA, closed down by the Turkish government in October 2016, when she was detained on July 5, 2016 along with journalists Muzaffer Tunç and Emrullah Oruç. The Batman 2nd High Criminal Court has decided to hold the next hearing on Nov. 27.
Turkey is ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). If Turkey falls two more places, it will make it to the list of countries on the blacklist, which have the poorest record in press freedom.
Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world. The most recent figures documented by SCF show that 240 journalists and media workers were in jail as of July 7, 2018, most in pretrial detention. Of those in prison 179 were under arrest pending trial while only 61 journalists have been convicted and are serving their time. Detention warrants are outstanding for 143 journalists who are living in exile or remain at large in Turkey.
Detaining tens of thousands of people over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the government also closed down some 200 media outlets, including Kurdish news agencies and newspapers, after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016.
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