Interview Cause of Arrest
Ankara. November 15 – Journalist and publishing editor are sued in Turkey
Armenia Today reports that the Istambul court aroused a case against the reporter of Turkish newspaper “Taraf” Neshe Duzel and the publishing editor Adnan Demir. The acusation of the Istambul public prosecutor sounds as “propaganda of an armed terroristic organization. They may be sued for 7,5 years.
The cause of the case is the interview of Neshe Duzel with Kurdistan society Union leaders Zubeyr Aydar and Remzi Karal in Brussels.
According to the prosecutor Hakan Karaali’s words, “the article of Duzel justified in the eyes of the reader the declaration of the “separatist organization” to violations and terrorism:, says “Taraf”. The prosecutor also cited the 10th article of the European convention whicht says that the freedom of speach can be limited to protect national security, teritorrial integrity of the country or to restore public order, to prevent crime: “I did not agitate terroristic organization, just the opposite, I support open policy”, – said Duzel in the court and added, that today the Turkish authorities negotiate with that so called “terroristic organization”.