Turkey: Arrests of executives of the newspaper Τζουμχουριέτ

Today in the morning the anti-terrorist service in command of the district attorney, who launched an investigation in August, raided the houses of the…
director of the newspaper Cumhuriyet Murat Σαμπουντζού, the president of the Board of directors Akin Atalay and columnist Γκιουράι Oz.
Have ordered the arrest of 13 executives of the newspaper have been charged by the prosecutor’s office that “with the news that they helped the PKK and the FETÖ (Terrorist organization of the Φετχουλλαχ Γκιουλέν)”. The Prosecutor’s office of Istanbul has announced that he ordered the arrests because the defendants, although they are not members of the Organisation of Γκιουλέν committed criminal acts in favour of this. In the meantime, the website of the traditional secular newspaper Cumhuriyet posted the following announcement: “The coup d’état against the Republic arrived in the newspaper Cumhuriyet. Carried out a raid in the homes of the Director of the newspaper Murat Σαμπουντζού, the president of the Board of directors Akin Atalay and columnist Γκιουράι Oz. The Σαμπουντζού and Oz have been arrested”. The investigations of the counter-terrorism service in homes, columnists and managers of newspaper continues. Among those arrested is the columnist Χικμέτ Τσετίνκαγια. At the same time, with the completion of the 5ήμερου of the law, the mayor and the deputy mayor of Diyarbakir Γκιουλτάν Κισανάκ and Firat Ανλί accused of facilities and cooperation with the PKK.testified, in the presence of their lawyer, the judge who decided their detention. Source: ana – MPA