in Turkey, considers the isolation in which they have put in a Turkish prison “almost a form of torture”, however, points out that the health and mental state is good, today known by the German newspaper.
The newspaper Welt am Sonntag published a short letter, which dictated the ΓιουτζÎλ in Σαφάκ ΠαβÎι, strain of the Republican People’s Party CHP, when he visited him in a maximum security prison, which is located at a distance of 80 kilometres from Istanbul.
The arrest of ΓιουτζÎλ κοÏÏφωσε the tension in the relations of Ankara and Berlin. The president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan complained that the correspondent of the German newspaper is a “German agent” and at the same time strain of Kurdish separatists. “Irrational” is featured on the side of these categories, a source from the German FOREIGN office.
The journalist was arrested Monday, accused of propaganda in favour of a terrorist organisation and incitement to public violence and are facing a sentence of up to 10 years and 6 months, if convicted. The Berlin called for the immediate release.
“Here in prison in ΣηλυβÏία I’m being held alone in a separate cell. This is very unpleasant. I was being treated well, but being alone is almost a form of torture”, stresses the ΓιουτζÎλ in the letter.
He described that the prison officials did not allow him to draw up the same letter and they have still and his hands to confirm that he had written secret messages.
“I’m not supposed to can’t contact anyone and I remain in solitary confinement in my cell,” says the journalist.
A huge banner stating the slogan “#freedeniz” has been posted from the roof of the central office of the newspaper Bild and Welt in the centre of Berlin.
In isolation, the journalist of Die Welt in the prisons of Turkey
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