2023-04-16 08:01:32
İstanbul. Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Dr. He sentenced Merdan Yanardag to 6 months in prison for his article titled ‘Mafiaisation of the Order’. Later, the court sentenced Yanardag to 7 months and 15 suns with 1/4 share for allegedly executing the same criminal more than once. According to the news of Tele1, in the decision, it was claimed that Yanardag’s article “insulted the Turkish nation, the state of the Republic of Turkey and the institutions of sovereignty”. The way to appeal the decision is open.
Yanardag : “ Purely journalistic criticism“
In his defense, Yanardag said that the article was purely political analysis and journalistic criticism, and adapted it to both the government and the society. Yanardag, who said that he complied with the state-power split throughout the article, always includes a mafia dimension in his royalist criticism and stated that similar events took place during the previous governments. He reminded that Sedat Peker threatened the opposing segments of society with the direction he had previously dominated. Emphasizing that mafia structures are one of the dark sides of their capitalist order, the evaluation of the Yanardağ repression as a political analysis structured from a scientific sociological perspective also marked their structure.
ATGB : “The punishment given to Yanarda is political.”
„The punishment given to journalist Yanardag is political.“ The remarkable headlines of the Board of Directors of the “European Turkish Journalists Association” (ATGB), which made a press statement with its right, are as follows:
– While the 21-year AKP rule continues to use the judiciary as a stick in its hand, it is increasing its pressure on journalists and the press with each passing day.
– The last example of this is the punishment given to Tele1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardag.
The Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced Merdan Yanardag to 6 months in prison for his column in the newspaper Birgün, which included “Mafiaisation of the Order”. took out green.
– In the decision, it was claimed that Yanardag’s article “insulted the Turkish nation, the state of the Republic of Turkey and the institutions of the ruler”. Journalism is a public opinion and is guaranteed by the Constitution. The job of the journalist is to enlighten the public.
– Therefore, journalism is not a crime. We, as the European Turkish Journalists Association (ATGB), think that the sentence given to our colleague Merdan Yanardag is a political decision that ignores the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press and has no legal basis.
ATGB concluded its press release as follows: “In the person of Yanardag, besides all the journalists who carry out journalism settlements in Turkey under the wind of oppression and fear and enlighten the public, we remind our donor again for our struggle for a secular, democratic and “journalism is not a crime” Turkey by conveying it to us. almost the last execution. His journalist friends in Turkey are not alone.“
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