A week full of inconsistencies in Turkey - Erol Önderoglu acquitted but many others still detained
by ECPMF
In a busy week for Turkey’s courts, the ECPMF sent two representatives to Turkey in order to monitor court hearings and to meet with journalists, defendants, lawyers, consuls and press freedom and human rights organisations.
Inside Caglayan Justice Palace Istanbul. Photo: ECPMF
The court week was supposed to start on Tuesday with the long-awaited fourth hearing in the trial of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel. The Constitutional Court ruled in June that his one-year long detention without a formal indictment was unlawful – but his trial was adjourned until October 2019. Yücel faces “terrorist propaganda” charges and has left the country.
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