
Kunde inte tänka sig att servera Erdogan te – greps
Senol Buran driver den oppositionella turkiska tidningen Cumhuriyets cafeteria. På julafton greps han av turkisk polis, rapporterar flera nyhetsbyråer. Buran var på väg till sitt arbete i centrala Istanbul men hindrades av att vägar stängts av på grund av att president Recep Tayyip Erdogan skulle hålla ett tal.
Nu anklagas han för att ha förolämpat Erdogan genom att upprört ha sagt till en polis att han ”inte skulle servera te till den mannen”. Buran nekar till brott och vidhåller att han helt enkelt sagt att han inte skulle servera något te.
En domare har nu beslutat att Buran ska bli kvar i häktet, rapporterar AFP. Kritiken mot Erdogans begränsningar av yttrandefriheten har vuxit sedan sommarens kupp.
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Cumhuriyet (Turkish pronunciation: [d͡ʒum.huː.ɾi.ˈjet], The Republic) is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. Headquartered in Istanbul, the newspaper has also offices in Ankara and İzmir.
Established on 7 May 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, a confidant of the Turkish Republic's founder Atatürk, the newspaper has subscribed to a staunchly secular, republic course. In the past closely affiliated with the Kemalist Republican People's Party (CHP), the center-left newspaper turned to a more independent course over time, while still advocating democracy, social liberal values and free markets.
Since the AKP's rise to power, Cumhuriyet has been particularly renowned for its impartial, occasionally courageous journalism. In 2015 it was awarded the Freedom of Press Prize by international NGO Reporters Without Borders for making a stand against the government's mounting pressure. Shortly thereafter, Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the newspaper's Ankara representative Erdem Gül were arrested facing sentences up to life imprisonment. During the last decade, the newspaper's staff has also been physically attacked, with the 2008 molotov attack against Cumhuriyet's headquarters in Istanbul's Şişli district being particularly significant.
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