Reporters without Borders calls for Turkish journalists’ release
At a press conference held in partnership with the Turkish Association of Journalists (TGC) in Istanbul, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched an international appeal for the release of Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül and all their fellow journalists unjustly detained in Turkey.
The list of initial signatories, consisting of NGOs and international public figures, has been posted on RSF’s website. The general public can support the appeal by signing the petition in English, Turkish and French at this address: http://rsf.org/petitions/turquie/pe....
The signatories accuse the Turkish authorities of “persecuting journalists of all colours in an increasingly ferocious manner” and urge them “to free Can Dündar and Erdem Gül without delay, to drop all charges against them, and to free all other journalists who are currently detained in connection with their journalism or the opinions they have expressed.”
They also condemn this spiral of oppression in “a country that is ranked 149th out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.”
“The Turkish authorities are targeting the wrong enemy,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “The judicial system seems to prosecute journalists more often than the accomplices of Daesh (Islamic State). Turkey is a great country, with democratic institutions and a very open civil society. We appeal to the government, as a matter of honor, to restore all the conditions of pluralism, starting with freedom for journalists.”
TGC president Turgay Olcayto added: “With globalization, the Turkish media’s problems could one day become the problems of western journalists. It is vital that we join forces to defend free journalism before it is too late.”
Cumhuriyet lawyer Bulent Utku spoke of the appeal that has been filed for the provisional release of Dündar and Gul. Kadri Gürsel of IPI, Ugur Güç of TGS/IFJ, Faruk Eren of DISK Basin¬İş and Ceren Sozeri of the Ethical Journalism Network also spoke. A video message recorded by OSCE media freedom representative Dunja Mijatovic was broadcasted.
Public figures already supporting the appeal for the release of Cumhuriyet’s journalists and their jailed colleagues include German journalist Günter Wallraff, Algerian cartoonist Ali Dilem, French philosopher Edgar Morin, US intellectual Noam Chomsky, Swedish writer Per Wästberg, Turkish pianist Fazil Say, Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, German politician Cem Özdemir and French economist Thomas Piketty. The full list is posted on the RSF website.
The many NGOs that have signed the RSF appeal include the Committee to Project Journalists, (CPJ), PEN International, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Index on Censorship, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Global Editors Network (GEN).
RSF awarded its 2015 Press Freedom Prize to Cumhuriyet at the inaugural ceremony of the Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg on 17 November.
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