The new Turkey
Nuh Gönültaş.
Columnist for the shuttered daily Bugün

31-Jan-2019

9 November 2017:

Journalists arrested
A Turkish court on November 9 arrested Nuh Gönültaş, a columnist for the shuttered daily Bugün, Behram Kılıç, a sports reporter for the now-shuttered daily Zaman, and Mehmet Gündem, who formerly worked for Zaman and pro-government outlets including the state-run broadcaster TRT, according to the English-language news site Turkish Minute.

On November 8, authorities detained the three journalists, along with 45 other people, as part of a new government investigation targeting the Istanbul-based Journalist and Writers Foundation, a non-governmental organization that was affiliated with the Fethullah Gülen movement, according to Turkish Minute. Turkish authorities labeled the exiled cleric Gülen and his followers terrorists in the wake of a failed attempted coup in June 2016.

9 November 2017:

Four arrested in probe into FETÖ media arm

Four people, including former staff of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) mouthpiece media outlet, Zaman, blamed for last year's putsch attempt, were arrested yesterday in an investigation into the said media outlet.

Nuh Gönültaş and Mehmet Gündem, journalists for the now-defunct Zaman newspaper, and Behram Kılıç, who worked at Aksiyon magazine, which is linked to the terrorist group, were among the 45 detained last week. Prosecutors had issued detention warrants for 111 people in the probe against the Journalists and Writers Foundation. The now-defunct foundation, whose honorary president is FETÖ leader Fetullah Gülen, is known for its strong opposition to Turkey's counterterrorism efforts targeting the group.

Authorities released other suspects in the case, while six suspects were released with judicial control.