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| Police stage operation on Turkish daily Sözcu |
| 2017-05-21 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Police conducted an operation targeting an executive of critical daily Sözcu and a number of other staff members, the Istanbul Chief Public prosecutor stated on May 19, after detention warrants were issued for four of the newspaper’s staff members in the early hours of the morning. Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Irfan Fidan told the Dogan News Agency that the operation only targeted executives of the daily, including its license holder Burak Akbay, and some other staff. "[The operation] is about the executives of daily Sözcu. He [Akbay] is already a runaway and there is an arrest warrant for him. There are detentions and the investigation is ongoing," Fidan said. "Proceedings are only being conducted against its manager and some staff members," he added. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had issued detention warrants for Akbay, the online manager of Sözcu, Mediha Olgun, finance manager Yonca Kaleli, and Izmir news hound Gökmen Ulu. The four were reportedly being investigated over alleged links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , accused of criminal masterminding the July 2016 failed coup attempt. According to state-run Anadolu Agency, the journalists were accused of "being a member of terror organization and committing crime on behalf of the organization," "assault against the president," and "armed insurgency against the Turkish government." |
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