Two major Turkish journalists were detained at their work; The newspaper quoted it as false allegations

ISTANBUL: Two major Turkish journalists were detained on Thursday that their newspapers were false allegations affected by their work. Author Taimur soan Birgun and cumhuriyet Mud The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul was arrested in his homes on charges of threatening and blackmailing in an investigation.
Both papers have criticized the President’s government Recep Tyip ErdoganHe has covered the incidents around the imprisonment of March 19 and later the imprisonment of the Mayor of Istanbul, leading to the biggest protests in Türkiye in more than a decade.
After covering the protest, more than a dozen journalists have been detained in their homes, which were banned by the authorities. The police, after determining this, alleged seven allegations of participating in illegal protests that they were not excluding the “activities of journalism” in the protests. The prosecutors have earlier called for the conditions of the jail up to three years for the crime.
In search of journalists’ homes in Istanbul, computers and other digital materials were examined, Kamhurite said. Advocate for both men, ANS Ernerner opposed the arrests in the morning and said that arrangements were already made with the prosecutor to make voluntarily statements on Thursday.
Armener wrote on X, “People who have made an appointment to testify and those who are known to testify are not only illegal, but also clearly shows that the enemy is being implemented as criminal laws,” Arrmaner has written on X.
After a check in a hospital, Soyakan and Agraral were taken to the police headquarters of Istanbul. The police can catch them for four days. No court dates were determined immediately. Citing the prosecutor’s office’s decision, Kyuhurite stated that he was detained “due to the possibility of escaping, destroying, changing, or hiding evidence.”
The office of the prosecutor said that the arrest was related to the sale of a television news channel called Flash Haber. The owner of the channel, who is currently in jail for pending testing on money laundering and illegal sports betting charges, complained that he was threatened by soycan and Egiral and “blackmailed about the transfer and purchase of the channel,” the office said.
In a statement, Birgun said: “No matter what excuse the official officials are, we know that the main reason for our friends’ custody is that he has revealed an illegal acts one by one in all the judicial processes done from March 19 and has followed the system of lies and they are trying to pull the country.”
The newspaper said that its author Soyakan was due to receiving an award for his journalism on Thursday evening, showing that “the main goal of the government is not crime and criminal, but journalism and truth.” As he was being transferred from the hospital to the police headquarters, Soyakan shouted: “The gang will lose, people will win. All this will end.”
Responding to the arrest, the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP vice -president Burhantin Bulut said, “Turkey experienced Turkey’s sole purpose these ugly images and used the judiciary as a Kadgel, who is to intimidate journalists who criticize the government and independent media.”
The association of contemporary journalists, which was due to presenting Soyak with an award for the story of the year, posted on X: “Even though the news and news written against the gangs and sects about the illegalities in recent actions, the news and the news written against the gangs and sects, we will keep some people, we will keep saying: Journalism is not a crime! Our colleagues should not be a crime!”