THEY ARE NO LONGER KILLED BUT IMPRISONED

Our paper’s executive board chair, Orhan Erinç, said, ‘They killed Uğur because he was an investigative journalist. They don’t kill investigative journalists today, but they hound them out of their jobs or imprison them.’

Release the journalists
The report and draft resolution with the heading, ‘Attacks on Journalists and Media Freedom in Europe,’ which was debated in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has been accepted. The report only covered the ‘most problematic’ countries of Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, Poland and Italy.
It was said in the resolution which included a seven-point ultimatum for Turkey, ‘We are concerned at the dramatic situation confronting media organisations and journalists due to decrees with the force of law.’ Turkish authorities were implored to ‘release journalists who have not been found to have participated in acts of terror.’
ONO: Respect freedoms
The international Organization of News Ombudsmen has published an open letter to President Erdoğan calling for the release of our paper’s ombudsman Güray Öz and all other remanded journalists.