Ankara-Sana
Today, a court affiliated with 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, who 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, labor and national treason.
Turkey, under Erdogan's regime, is the first in the world to imprison journalists, as this regime pursues all free pens 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, Salah El-Din Demirtaş, confirming that his continued detention since 2016 violates five articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.
According to the Turkish Zaman newspaper, the European Court rejected the Turkish regime’s appeal against its previous decision issued two years ago, and said that “Demirtaş’s arrest is based on political and not legal reasons, and failure to release means the continuation of the violation.”
Commenting on the ruling, Demirtaş's lawyer, Mahsouni Karman, said: “With this decision, all charges against Demirtaş were canceled and the fact that he was held hostage for political reasons for 4 years was recorded,” stressing that the decision of the European Court of Human Rights is final and mandatory, and therefore Demirtaş must be released immediately.
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 inspections of women in prisons after the escalation of controversy over the issue, which occupied a large area of public opinion recently.
The Directorate issued an embarrassing statement to politicians affiliated with the Justice and Development Party, in which it did not deny the statements of the victims that they had been insulted by naked searches in prisons and detention centers.