An İstanbul prosecutor presented his final opinion to a court on Tuesday in a case against journalist Canan Coşkun, demanding up to three years’ jail time on accusations of “targeting officials involved in a counterterrorism operation.”
The verdict will be given by the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court on July 19.
The Cumhuriyet daily’s court correspondent Coşkun on Sept. 20 reported on the testimony of lawyers who had been detained for alleged membership in the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which is designated as a leftist terror group by Turkish authorities.
The prosecutor also accused Coşkun of “putting the investigation into the group at risk.”
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. (SCF with turkishminute.com)
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