Ankara-Sana
The authorities of the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have arrested six journalists opposed to his policies and suspended 18 judges and prosecutors under the pretext of their links to the preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom this regime accuses of being behind the coup attempt that took place in July 2016.
"At least 18 judges and prosecutors have been suspended from their duties until the investigation is completed in connection with the Gülen organization," the Anatolian news agency, Erdogan's regime, quoted the second room of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors in Turkey as saying.
In addition, the judiciary of the Turkish regime in Istanbul issued prison sentences for six journalists from the Sojo newspaper, which takes positions that are strongly opposed to the Erdogan regime, for periods ranging from two years to one month to three years and six months on the pretext of their links to the Gülen organization.
The Soju newspaper, the second opposition newspaper to be targeted after Cumhuriyet, condemned the ruling as a "black splash", stressing that all the convicts were doing was doing their job as journalists.
During the years following the coup attempt, the Turkish regime authorities arrested more than 77,000 people and made decisions to dismiss or suspend work against about 150,000 workers in the government, the army, the judiciary, education, and other institutions. A state of emergency was also imposed and restrictions on the media and journalists.