Turkey’s state-run TV broadcaster TRT staff was briefly detained in the Greek city of Alexandroupolis late Saturday.
According to a report by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA), Cameraman Ufuk Karagül, reporter Fatih Sabuncu and transportation officer Metin Talu were taken in custody for doing test stream on the occasion of the second anniversary of Turkey’s controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The trio was released three and half hours later.
Sabuncu defended that they were detained without any reason and held in the police station without any interrogation. “I worked in many countries, but I have not seen such a treatment in the countries you would call the worst of the world. I regret it,” Sabuncu said and added that being exposed to such a treatment in a European country was shocking.
The correspondents and staff of TRT and AA have been widely perceived as the agents of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) abroad since most of them act as if the agents of the MİT to chase and gather information about the dissident figures targeted by Turkish government led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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 239 journalists and media workers were in jail as of July 9, 2018, most in pretrial detention. Of those in prison 178 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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from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/staff-of-turkeys-state-run-trt-briefly-detained-in-greece/
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