Turkey sets free Press Freedom Hero
Turkish investigative journalist and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Sener was released from prison today pending trial.
Tuesday, 13.03.2012.
13:41
Turkish investigative journalist and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Sener was released from prison today pending trial. Sener spent more than a year behind bars on charges of aiding a terrorist group. Turkey sets free Press Freedom Hero An Istanbul court late this afternoon ordered the release of Sener and three others in the so-called Oda TV trial: investigative journalist Ahmet Sık, Sait Cakır and Coskun Musluk. Details of the court’s order and its reasoning were not immediately available. IPI Press Freedom Adviser for Europe & North America Steven M. Ellis, who was present with members of IPI’s Turkish National Committee outside Silivri Prison when Sener emerged, said Sener told an assembled crowd: “When they took me to prison, I said, for [slain Turkish journalist] Hrant Dink, for justice.” The four are accused of involvement with a news website, Oda TV, that authorities allege acted as the media wing for the alleged “Ergenekon” conspiracy, in which ultra-nationalists and elements of the Turkish security services are said to have plotted to use terrorism to bring down the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). "I am beyond delighted to hear that Nedim has been released from prison along with Ahmet Sık and two others. IPI continues to support him and all of the journalists confined in Turkish prisons for doing their job. We will not rest until all journalists jailed in Turkey for practicing journalism are released," said IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie. "While this latest development is great news, we continue to call on the government to drop all charges against Mr. Sener and to free the journalists who remain in jail," added Bethel-McKenzie. Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, joined IPI in celebrating the release of Sener and his co-defendants. “I am very happy that the journalists are free. This is a long-awaited moment not only for them, their families and their loved ones, but for all of us who have been following their trial in and outside of Turkey,” said Mijatovic. SEEMO/IPI
Turkey sets free Press Freedom Hero
An Istanbul court late this afternoon ordered the release of Sener and three others in the so-called Oda TV trial: investigative journalist Ahmet Sık, Sait Cakır and Coskun Musluk. Details of the court’s order and its reasoning were not immediately available.IPI Press Freedom Adviser for Europe & North America Steven M. Ellis, who was present with members of IPI’s Turkish National Committee outside Silivri Prison when Sener emerged, said Sener told an assembled crowd: “When they took me to prison, I said, for [slain Turkish journalist] Hrant Dink, for justice.”
The four are accused of involvement with a news website, Oda TV, that authorities allege acted as the media wing for the alleged “Ergenekon” conspiracy, in which ultra-nationalists and elements of the Turkish security services are said to have plotted to use terrorism to bring down the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
"I am beyond delighted to hear that Nedim has been released from prison along with Ahmet Sık and two others. IPI continues to support him and all of the journalists confined in Turkish prisons for doing their job. We will not rest until all journalists jailed in Turkey for practicing journalism are released," said IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie.
"While this latest development is great news, we continue to call on the government to drop all charges against Mr. Sener and to free the journalists who remain in jail," added Bethel-McKenzie.
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, joined IPI in celebrating the release of Sener and his co-defendants. “I am very happy that the journalists are free. This is a long-awaited moment not only for them, their families and their loved ones, but for all of us who have been following their trial in and outside of Turkey,” said Mijatović.
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