One day after the latest Cumhuriyet trial in Turkey Ahmet Şık's blocked defence speech was published. These are the words the judge didn't want to hear. The trial is supposed to resume in March.
Ahmet Şık in court (Cumhuriyet trial, 25th of December 2017, by Tarik Tonulay)
"On November 23, 2017, in the beginning of the legal year, President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, İsmail Rüştü Cirit, stated some very striking facts. He declared that according to the 2016 criminal records, there are approximately 6 million 900 thousand suspects, within our country’s population of 80 million. Cirit said, 'This shows…
