RSF, which attended the opening of their trial in Istanbul today, urges the Turkish authorities to stop criminalizing business reporting.īloomberg News journalists Kerim Karakaya and Fercan Yalınkılıç are charged with trying to “destabilize the Turkish economy” in an August 2018 dispatch, while four other journalists – Mustafa Sönmez, Merdan Yanardağ, Sedef Kabaş and Orhan Kalkan – and 32 Internet users are being tried with them on the same charge for their tweets about the dispatch. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate acquittal of six journalists and 32 Internet users who are facing up to five years in prison for covering last year’s financial crisis in Turkey.
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