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When the attorneys reached the central office of the newspaper, there was someone in suit who said that he was an official from the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). Although it was alleged that a trustee was appointed to the newspaper, it could not be officially confirmed. 11 April 2019: The fourth hearing of the case, where five workers of the newspaper were arrested pending trial, was attended by four arrested defendants, namely Managing Editor of the newspaper İshak Yasul, its Grant Holder İhsan Yaşar and Editors Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hicran Urun. Being tried without arrest, defendants Ramazan Sola and Pınar Tarlak also appeared in court. The prosecutor announced its opinion as to the accusations and demanded that Hicran Urun, İhsan Yaşar, Pınar Tarlak, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, İshak Yasul and Reyhan Hacıoğlu be penalized on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organization", "repeatedly printing and publishing the publications of the organization" and "propagandizing for a terrorist organization." The prosecutor also demanded that Ramazan Sola and Mizgin Fendik be penalized for "knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization as non-members" and the case files of journalists, against whom an arrest warrant was issued, be separated from others. Two journalists released on probationTaking the floor after the statements of arrested defendants İshak Yasul, İhsan Yaşar, Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hicran Uran, their attorneys Özcan Kılıç and Müslüm Kocaoğlu emphasized that there is no concrete evidence in the trials. They also requested additional time from the court board to prepare their statements of defense as to the accusations. Announcing its judgement, the court board has ruled that journalists İshak Yasul and Hicran Urun shall be released on probation with an international travel ban. The next hearing will be held on June 28, 2019. 21 February 2019: The third hearing of the trial on terrorism-related charges into 14 employees of the shuttered daily Özgürlükçü Demokrasi took place on 21 February at the 23rd High Criminal Court of Istanbul. The pro-Kurdish newspaper’s publisher, İhsan Yaşar, responsible managing editor İshak Yasul, editors Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu and Hicran Ürün, and bookkeeper and secretary Pınar Tarlak were jailed pending trial in April. Tarlak was released at the end of the first hearing of the trial in September. The defendants are accused of “membership in a terrorist organization,” “disseminating propaganda for a terrorist organization” and “publishing terrorist group publications.” P24 monitored the hearing, where the defendants addressed the court for their defense statements, rejecting the accusations and requesting for their release. The prosecution then requested that all jailed defendants be remanded in detention on the grounds of “strong criminal suspicion” and that the files of six of the defendants against whom there are arrest warrants be separated. Announcing its interim ruling at the end of the hearing, the court ordered the continuation of the detention of all jailed defendants in the case and adjourned the trial until 10 April 2019. The court also ruled to await the outcome of the arrest warrants in place for six defendants and decided to hand over the case file to the prosecution for the drafting of their final opinion of the case.
An Istanbul court on April 6 arraigned İhsan Yaşar and İhsak Kabul, the publisher and responsible news editor respectively for the recently seized pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, on charges of "being members of a [terrorist] organization" and "making propaganda for a [terrorist] organization," the daily Evrensel reported. They will remain in custody until their indictment, according to the report. ----------- The three editors, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, and Hicran Urun, and a newspaper employee Pınar Tarlak will remain in government detention while awaiting trial. The court released newspaper employees Ramazan Solam and Nedim Demirkıran, and former employee Mehmet Beyazıt, on probation pending trial, Diken said. |
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4 journalists from seized pro-Kurdish daily put in pre-trial detention on terror chargesby TurkeyPurge | Apr 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown Özgürlükçü Demokrasi is the successor of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed down by the government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. On March 28, the headquarters of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul and its printing house were raided and searched by police teams upon an order from the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Twenty-two employees of the daily were detained, and 20 were subsequently arrested. Seven others from the daily were detained in another police operation on April 7. Of them, editors Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu and Hicran Urun, and media worker Pınar Tarlak, were arrested on Tuesday on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. The remaining three were released on judicial probation. |
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20 of the 21 workers from Gün Printing House have been sent to court.
 5 April 2018 Eight of them were arrested, deposition proceeding of the 12 people is ongoing as of 2:55 p.m. Mezopotamya Agency reported that 20 of those who were detained during the raid were taken taken to İstanbul Courthouse. Holding an examination on the file, the prosecutor’s office sent all the workers to court for arrest. Names of those who were sent to court for arrest are as follows: Owner of Gün Printing House Kasım Zengin, printing house workers Erdoğan Zamur, Cemal Tunç, İhsan Sinmiş, İrfan Karaca, Kazım Göçer, Mehmet Emin Sümeli, Musa Kaya, Sadettin Demirtaş, Necati Hizarcı, Polat Arslan, Mahmut Abay, Cumali Öz, Mehmet Kadir Özkara, Mürsel Demir, Özgür Bozkurt, Kemal Daşdöğen, Süleyman Güneş, Muhammet Özkan, Uğur Selim Kelekçiler. Cumali Öz, Mehmet Kadir Özkara, Özgür Bozkurt, Kemal Daşdeğen, Süleyman Güneş, Uğur Selman Kelekçiler, Muhammet Özkan and Mürsel Demir were arrested. A person whose name couldn’t be found out was released following the deposition. What happened?Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing were raided by police on March 28 and it was reportedly transferred to the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) and a trustee was appointed. 25 people including Grant Holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper İhsan Yaşar and Owner of Gün Printing House Kasım Zengin were taken into custody during and after the raid. The total number of detentions became 33 Names of those who were detained as of today (April 4) are as follows: Grant Holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper İhsan Yaşar, Owner of Gün Printing House Kasım Zengin, Managing Editor İshak Yasul, newspaper staff Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Nedim Demirkıran, M. Ali Çelebi , Ramazan Sola Pınar Tarlak, Hicran Ürün, gazetenin eski çalışanı Mehmet Beyazıt, Gün Matbaası Sahibi Kasım Zengin, matbaa çalışanları Erdoğan Zamur, Musa Kaya, Cemal Tunç, Kemal Daşdöğen, İrfan Karaca, Mehmet Emin Sumeli, İhsan Sinmiş, Uğur Selman Kelekçiler, Kazım Göçer, Necati Hızarcı, Mahmut Abay, Mehmet Özkara, Cumali Öz, Mürsel Demir, Polat Arslan, Süleyman Güneş, Cenk Kale, Cengiz Kaya, İsmail Ergene, Semih Tamay, Özgür Bozkurt, Sadettin Demirtaş and Muhammet Özkan. (EA/TK) Source |
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Detained during the operation launched against staff of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi to
11 April 2018 Seven editors and workers who were taken into custody on April 4 as part of the investigation launched in the wake of a trustee being appointed to Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing House, were taken to İstanbul Courthouse yesterday (April 10). According to Newspaper Karınca, the prosecutor didn’t take their statements. Newspaper’s editors Çelebi, Hacıoğlu and Urun, and the staff Tarlak and Sola were sent to 3rd Criminal Judgeship of Peace for arrest. The prosecutor demanded that newspaper staff Nedir Demirkıran and former staff Mehmet Beyazit be released on probation. While Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Hicran Urun and Pınar Tarlak were arrested on charge of “being a member of an illegal organization”, the other three figures were released on probation. What happened?On March 28, police raided the central office of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper in the district of Beyoğlu in İstanbul and the Gün Printing House, where the issues of the newspaper were printed. When the attorneys reached the central office of the newspaper, there was someone in suit who said that he was an official from the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). Although it was alleged that a trustee was appointed to the newspaper, it could not be officially confirmed. During the raids on March 28 and the house raids on the following days, 33 people from the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing House were taken into custody, including the Grant Holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi İhsan Yaşar, its Managing Editor İshak Yasul and the owner of Gün Printing House Kasım Zengin. On April 5, eight people were arrested on charge of "aiding an illegal organization knowingly and willfully as non-members." 12 other people, including the owner of Gün Printing House Kasım Zengin were also arrested on charges of "membership of an illegal organization" and "propagandizing for a terrorist organization." Grant Holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper İhsan Yaşar and its Managing Editor İshak Yasul were arrested on charge of "being a member of an illegal organization" and propagandizing for a terrorist organization" on April 6. Detained during the operation launched on March 28, 20 workers of Gün Printing House were arrested by the court they stood trial. About Özgürlükçü Demokrasi NewspaperAfter Özgür Gündem newspaper was closed on August 16, 2016, Özgürlükçü Gündem newspaper started to be published on August 23, 2016. Started to be published by Nesrin Media, Publishing and Distribution, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi was recently published and distributed by Engin Media, Publishing Industry and Trade Limited Company. The newspaper reported the arrests of Özgür Gündem's Executive Editor Zana Kaya and its Editor-in-Chief İnan Kızılkaya in the subheading of its first issue. Kaya and Kızılkaya were arrested on August 22, 2016. Kaya was released on December 29, 2016 and Kızılkaya on November 1, 2017. (BK/TK) Source |
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Journalists İshak Yasul and Hicran Urun from the closed Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper have been released in their fourth hearing. Yasul and Urun have been behind bars since April 2018.
Detained during the operation launched against staff of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi to which a trustee was appointed, journalists Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Hicran Urun and Pınar Tarlak have been arrested.
