The new Turkey
Furkan Gökşen
Reporter for the local newspaper Detay Haber

08-Mar-2019

19 February 2019:

Trial into journalist Murat Güreş adjourned

 The trial in which Gaziantep-based journalists Murat Güreş, Furkan Gökşen and Metin Aybey stand accused of “violating the confidentiality of an investigation” resumed on 19 February.

The Gaziantep 9th Criminal Court of First Instance adjourned the trial until 20 June.

15 August 2017:

Two Gaziantep journalists released

Two local Gaziantep journalists who were sent to prison on August 2 for “violating a confidentiality order” imposed on the case of a businessman who was imprisoned in an investigation into the Fethullah Gülen network were released on August 15.

Murat Güreş and Furkan Gökşen were arrested for publishing testimony from the businessman. They were released following objections filed by their lawyers to their arrest ruling. With the recent ByLock arrests and the release of the two local journalists, the number of journalists imprisoned in Turkey has reached 171.

31 July 2017:

Court jails two journalists pending trial
A court in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep on August 2 ordered Furkan Gökşen, a reporter for the local newspaper Detay Haber, and Murat Güreş, a columnist for the local newspaper Ayıntap, jailed pending trial on charges of "violating the secrecy of an investigation," the leftist daily newspaper Evrenselreported. The court ordered Metin Aybey, a columnist for the local newspaper Doğuş, released on probation, pending trial on the same charge. Kadir Akkurt, whom police also arrested on August 2 on the same charge, was released after police questioning, Evrensel reported.

Prosecutors allege that the journalists published statements of a suspect being investigated for being a follower of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom the government blames for masterminding a failed military coup in July 2016.