Turkish journalists sentenced for revealing state secrets

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Turkish journalists sentenced for revealing state secrets



Prominent Turkish opposition journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul have been sentenced to five years and ten months and five years respectively for revealing state secrets.

Dundar, the Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper and Gul, the daily’s Ankara bureau chief, were convicted for publishing footage purporting to show Turkish state intelligence transporting weapons into Syria in 2014.

Both were acquitted of trying to overthrow the government.

“This sentence was not only passed to suppress and silence us. Those bullets were not only fired to prevent our newspaper from reporting. But this was also an assassination attempt aiming to intimidate the Turkish media and make us scared of writing,” Dunbar declared following the verdict.

The case has drawn international criticism of press freedom in Turkey.

Sentencing came a matter of hours after Dundar was shot at outside the Istanbul court by a man shouting “traitor.”

He was unharmed and the gunman detained. However one of the bullets fired is believed to have grazed a reporter covering the trial.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-07

[Baerboxer]

So, were the pictures true and was the report accurate?

Has Erdogan been supplying weapons?

[wabothai]

Now, would you believe Erdogan or the reporters?

[jollyhangmon]

Reel-ax, el presidente, nothing leaked, all under tight wraps & heavily censored:

[Rancid]

Really is appalling and typifies the EU that they would have anything to do with the fascist Turkish government. His ostracism might encourage the moderate members of society to vote him out. Alas he serves the purpose of supporting ISIS and their associated endgame, so he is tolerated.