Imprisoned for more than 18 years for journalist after exposing support the Erdogan terrorist regime in Syria

Ankara, (ST)   – A court affiliated to the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sentenced journalist Jan Dundar, former editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, to 18 years and nine months in prison, because he exposed this regime’s support for terrorists in Syria.

Dundar had exposed that in 2014, Turkish security forces arrested intelligence trucks on their way to Syria and were found to be transporting weapons and military equipment to terrorist groups, while Erdogan and his ministers claimed at the time that the trucks were carrying humanitarian aid.

The case sparked widespread reactions that prompted Erdogan’s regime to arrest all those related to the decision and the search process, including prosecutors, gendarmerie commanders, and security officials in Adana, Kilis and Hatay, and a court sentenced 27 of them to long years in prison on charges of espionage, and national treason.

Turkey, under Erdogan’s regime, is the first in the world to imprison journalists, as this regime pursues all journalists that criticize its performance, expose its corruption, and fabricate charges to its owners to throw them behind bars.

In a related context, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision requiring the immediate release of the former president of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party), Salah El-Din Demirtaş, confirming that his continued detention since 2016 violates five articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In the context of the violations of the Turkish human rights system, the General Directorate of Prisons and the Turkish Detention Center recognized the existence of shameful nude body searches of women in prisons.

The Directorate issued an embarrassing statement for politicians affiliated to the Justice and Development Party, in which it did not deny the statements given by the victims that they had been insulted by the nude search in prisons and detention centers.

Raghda Sawas