Cumhuriyet daily’s Dündar, Gül arrested over report on Syria arms transfer"“We are being charged with being spies, the president is saying that we are traitors to the state. We are not spies, we are not traitors, we are not heroes; we are journalists,” Dündar added outside the courthouse.
“There is a crime that has been committed by the state that they are trying to cover up,” he said, adding that the state is understandably in panic over the reporting done by the paper for it has the potential to reach an international audience and show the world the crimes committed by the Turkish state.
Following the Cumhuriyet report, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said it is “none of anybody's business” what the trucks contained. Speaking in a live broadcast on the Habertürk news station in May, Davutoğlu said, “This is a blatant act of espionage.”
After the publication of video stills as well as video footage, Erdoğan lashed out at Cumhuriyet and Dündar for publishing the evidence and publicly vowed that Dündar would “pay a heavy price” for his report.
According to the report, the trucks were carrying six steel containers which contained a total of 1,000 artillery shells, 50,000 machine gun rounds, 30,000 heavy machine gun rounds and 1,000 mortar shells. All of this is registered in the prosecutor's file on the MİT truck case, the report said."
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_cum ... 05352.htmlToday’s Zaman editor-in-chief faces 8 years in jail for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan"Today's Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş is facing the prospect of up to eight years and two months in prison on charges of “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a series of tweets and statements that the journalist says was him simply expressing a critical opinion.
An indictment prepared by prosecutor Umut Tepe from the İstanbul Public Prosecutor's Office claims some of the tweets Keneş posted on his Twitter account cannot be deemed within the scope of “freedom of speech and thought” and that Keneş committed the offense of “insulting the president” on more than one occasion."
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_tod ... 05339.htmlIn a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell