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2020-12-24 The Grand Turk
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Turkish court convicts former editor on terror charges
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[AlAhram] The court in Istanbul found the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, guilty of "obtaining secret documents for espionage" and "knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization without being a member"
A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday convicted the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet on espionage and terror-related charges over a 2015 news story, a verdict the exiled journalist said exemplified the pressures on Ottoman Turkish media.
The court in Istanbul found Car Dundar guilty of "obtaining secret documents for espionage" and "knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization without being a member." It sentenced him to 27 1/2 years in prison.
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Dundar fled to Germany in 2016, and he was tried in absentia.
That’s all right then, unless they take up kidnapping beyond the nation’s borders. His lawyers said the proceedings did not adhere to the standards for a fair trial and judicial impartiality, and they did not attend Wednesday’s court hearing in protest.
Given the government’s proclivities, probably a wise choice. In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named at his Berlin office, Dundar called the verdict "a personal decision by the president of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
to deter the journalists writing against him."
Dundar was first charged in 2015 and tried and convicted in 2016 for a Cumhuriyet article that accused Turkey’s intelligence service of illegally sending weapons to Syria. Wednesday’s verdict came in his retrial.
The story featured a 2014 video that showed men in police uniforms and civilian clothing unscrewing bolts to open trucks and unpacking boxes. Later images showed trucks full of mortar rounds. The AP cannot confirm the authenticity of the video.
Of course not. They weren’t there, doing the hard, life-risking work to get the story. The news report claimed that Ottoman Turkish intelligence service and President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
did not allow a prosecutor to pursue an investigation into arms smuggling.
The story infuriated Erdogan, who said the trucks carried aid to Turkmen groups in Syria and that Dundar would "pay a high price." Cumhuriyet’s Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gul. also faced criminal charges in the first trial.
Turkey later intervened directly in the Syrian civil war, launching four cross-border operations.
Reporters Without Borders ranked Turkey 154th out of 180 countries in its 2020 Press Freedom Index. Dundar said the trial verdict could have a further chilling effect.
Dundar was accused of aiding the network of U.S.-based Fethullah Gülen
... 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. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, a Moslem holy man whom the Ottoman Turkish government accuses of criminal masterminding a failed 2016 coup. Gulen denies the allegations and remains in Pennsylvania.
Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported that in reaching its verdict, the Istanbul court said that the 2015 news report aimed to present Turkey as a "country that supports terror" domestically and internationally. The court said that perception helped Gulen’s network, which also used the story in its own publications.
Dundar and Gul were arrested in 2015 and spent three months in pre-trial detention. In 2016, a court sentenced them to five to six years in prison for "obtaining and revealing secret documents to be used for espionage." Dundar was attacked outside the courthouse the day the verdict was issued.
After Dundar appealed the conviction, the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the sentence in 2018 and ordered a retrial with harsher sentences. The retrial began in 2019.
Dundar’s property in Turkey is in the process of being seized. He remains defiant.
"I am here, working as a journalist, and I don’t have any fear anymore," he told the AP. "Because I was attacked by button men in Turkey, just because of these news (reports), now I am in exile, all our assets are confiscated. What else can they do?" 
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