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Turkey arrests editor-in-chief of Aydinlik opposition newspaper
[DW] The Aydinlik newspaper has reported the arrest of its editor-in-chief, Ilker Yucel. The apparent cause was an unpaid fine for an article about President Erdogan's son-in-law published in 2014.The Aydinlik newspaper, in its digital edition on Saturday, said its editor-in-chief, Ilker Yucel, was tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in the extreme east of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and taken to prison in Igdir near the border with Armenia, where he is to stay until a fine is paid, his lawyer said. "I have been detained in Igdir for not publishing a correction from [Energy Minister and son in law of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ] Berat Albayrak that included an insult to Aydinlik," said Yucel in a Twitter message. The case dates back to 2014 when Aydinlik published an article about Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has been energy minister since November 2015. The report claimed Albayrak had links to crime. Accusations from the Wikileaks websites allege the 39-year-old Albyarak played a role in the sale of oil by the so-called "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " (IS) group. He has denied all such accusations. A court in Turkey ordered the newspaper to either publish a disclaimer about its report or pay a $28,000 (24,800 euro) fine. The paper refused, with Yucel saying the disclaimer "insulted" the paper. Yucel is also a prominent member of the small, left-wing Patriotic Party (Vatan) which renewed itself in 2015, bringing together socialists, revolutionaries and nationalists. The European Federation of Journalists said 159 media workers have been locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Turkey - including news hounds from La Belle France and Germany. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-05 |
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