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Editors-in-Chief on Watch to Testify to Police

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Prosecutor Gökhan Yolasığmaz who would take testimony of Nadire Mater, Yıldırım Türker, Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Faruk Balıkçı and Veysi Altay into who probe has been launched for supporting Özgür Gündem daily’s Editor-in-Chief on Watch campaign.

Eyüboğlu: New procedure

Attorney Meriç Eyüboğlu has stated that the testimonies will be taken at the Security Station.

Eyüboğlu noting they’ve waited the Prosecutor Yolasığmaz since 9 a.m. said, “But as we were informed twice, from now on the testimonies will be taken at the Security Station by prosecution order.
“There won’t be arrivals in groups at the prosecution any more. Instead, the security officials will invite the individuals to the Security Directorate in Vatan street”.

Mater: The greatest solidarity is to make the crackdowns visible

Mater said she hopes the solidarity and togetherness emerging will be a “mean to convey what Özgür Gündem and Kurdish media go through”.

Mater stating that they served as Editor-in-Chief for just one day said, “İnan Kızılkaya has been Özgür Gündem daily’s Editor-in-Chief for three months and there is about 100 cases on him, the biggest solidarity will be to make this visible”.

Kızılkaya: We are under pressure for writing right violations

“Purpose of the Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch campaign was to make right and freedom of the press violations in Turkey visible and that to draw attention to war which has been going on for a year. There is a war in this country going on for a year and it is people’s war but [Presidential] Palace’s war”.

Following the statement editors-in-chief on watch and others with them left the courthouse.

Kürkçü: The Security Station is not an institution of testimony

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İzmir MP, Ertuğrul Kürkçü drawing attention to reactions inside and outside the country due to the arrest of Ahmet Nesin, Erol Önderoğlu, and Şebnem Korur Fincancı, said the Justice and Development Party (AKP) may wish to take a step back but it won’t come to mean that the AKP has given up on its plans.

“Forcing journalists to testify at the Anti-Terror Bureau is highly a negative attitude.

“The Security Station is not an institution of testimony. We are now face to face with a sneakier attack mechanism”. (EA/EKN/TK)

Events of Student Clubs at ITU Prevented by University Presidency

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İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ) Presidency required that the “Worker Health and Labor Safety in Turkey” event organized by the Labor Security Club of the university and planned to be held on May 1…

Armed Attack on Syrian Journalist in Urfa

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Ahmet Abdulkadir, Editor-in-Chief of Ayn Vatan newspaper, issued weekly in Arabic in Urfa has been exposed to an armed attack yesterday (June 12) around evening hours.

The car in Kadıoğlu neighbourhood which Abdulkadir was in has been assaulted by two unknown perpetrators with gun on a motorcycle without licence plate.

In the attack Syrian journalist Ahmet Abdulkadir has been severely injured. Amed Abdulkadir, hit on the head with a bullet has been taken to Mehmet Akif İnan Training and Research Hospital and is in treatment.

Abddulkadir’s 20-year-old brother İbrahim Abdulkadir had also been killed and ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) had claimed responsibility. Both brothers were working for Ayn Vatan weekly. İbrahim Abdulkadir was also a member of the anti-ISIS and anti-Assad citizen journalism group; Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS).

Four Syrian journalists killed in Syria

Two Syrian journalists, İbrahim Abdulkadir and Firaz El Hamadi were killed at the house where they lived together in Urfa on October 30, 2015.

Journalist Naci El Jerf was shot to death in his head by unidentified people in Antep in the middle of the stree on December 27. Jerf was known with his documentaries about the ISIS.

On April 13, Halep Today’s correspondent Muhammed Zahir el Şerkat had been attacked by unknown persons with gun while walking on the street in Antep. The journalist who was injured in his head and hand had lost his life in the hospital he had been taken to.

ISIS had claimed responsibility for the deaths of all four journalists.

Journalists had met Erdoğan

Syrian journalists had come together with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 22. In the meeting, the problems Syrian journalists had been facing in Turkey had been handled. (EA/DG)