Istanbul publisher wins case against Turkey for the fifth time
By Emil Weber
Istanbul based publisher Fatih Taş has won a fifth freedom of expression case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Disappeared journalist Nazım Babaoğlu and the book cover (photo: http://platform24.org)
Back in 2004, Taş’s company Aram Publishing House was publishing a book with the title “Kayıpsın diyorlar” (They say you disappeared) about the presumed death of journalist Nazım Babaoğlu in 1994 who was at that time working for the pro-Kurdish daily “Ozgur Gundem”.
The book claims that Babaoğlu was abducted by town guards and anti-guerrilla forces while working on an investigative report in Siverek, a small town…
