Arrest of German Die Welt correspondent in Turkey causes alarm and outrage
by Jane Whyatt and Ana Ribeiro
Europe’s media freedom community is united in condemning the arrest of Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German national daily Die Welt. His reporting related to a minister's hacked e-mails has led to charges of “spreading propaganda in support of a terrorist organisation and inciting the public to violence.”
Yücel was born in Hessen, Germany, with Turkish heritage. He worked as an editor for the German taz newspaper before moving to Die Welt in 2015. He has dual German and Turkish citizenship, and has been based at the latter newspaper’s Istanbul bureau.
ECPMF Chair Henrik Kaufholz says:
The detention…
