Seven journalists have been arrested by police investigating an alleged plot to overthrow the Turkish government.
They were among 10 people detained as part of an official inquiry into Ergenekon, an ultra-nationalist clandestine group accused of trying to launch a coup against the government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Among those under arrest is Nedim Sener, named last year as an International Press Institute (IP) world press freedom hero. He works for the daily newspaper Milliyet.
IPI director Alison Bethel McKenzie said: “No journalist should face arrest, charges, imprisonment or any other form of harassment or intimidation for doing their job… We urge the authorities to release all of the journalists imprisoned because of their work.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Seven journalists have been arrested by police investigating an alleged plot to overthrow the Turkish government.
They were among 10 people detained as part of an official inquiry into Ergenekon, an ultra-nationalist clandestine group accused of trying to launch a coup against the government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Among those under arrest is Nedim Sener, named last year as an International Press Institute (IP) world press freedom hero. He works for the daily newspaper Milliyet.
IPI director Alison Bethel McKenzie said: “No journalist should face arrest, charges, imprisonment or any other form of harassment or intimidation for doing their job… We urge the authorities to release all of the journalists imprisoned because of their work.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk