Terrorists carry bombs and not tablets. "Reporters Without Borders" (click here) need to ask President Obama to intervene in Turkey. Turkey is on a slippery slope and journalists are only the latest victims of Erdogan paranoia. First child soldiers and now jailed journalists and their words are the latest victims of an attempted coupe that was crushed by the people.
April 30, 2018By Shayna Green
Cumhuriyet cartoonist Musa Kart, center, and colleagues stand outside an Istanbul courthouse in March 2018. A court in April convicted Kart and several of his colleagues of aiding a terrorist organization.
A Turkish court (click here) in Silivri sentenced 14 journalists from one of the last independent newspapers in Turkey, Cumhuriyet, with jail time on terrorism charges. The staff from this paper, known for being highly critical of President Erdogan’s administration, were found guilty of supporting Turkish exile Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused by Erdogan of leading the attempted coup in 2016. These accusations have been denied by Gulen but the Cumhuriyet journalists may face up to eight years for allegedly supporting him.
In addition to supposedly aiding Gulen, the journalists were convicted of providing coverage of Kurdistan Workers’ party and the ultra-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front....
