Ten journalists from two trustworthy news organisations were detained for the Kurds on Tuesday in six districts of Turkey, according to the Turkish Journalists Syndicate, a week after a legislation mandating prison time for the dissemination of false information went into effect.
The Turkish Journalists Syndicate stated in a tweet, “He stopped ten of our colleagues during raids in Ankara, Istanbul, Van, Diyar Bakr, Urfa and Mardin,” without going into any detail.
The union asserts that the imprisoned journalists, including four women, worked for Kurdish news outlets “Mesopotamia” and “Jenios.”
It was confirmed that seven journalists from the “Mizopotamia” agency were detained.
End of June saw the detention of 16 Turkish journalists in Diyarbakir, a city with a sizable Kurdish population, on charges of “belonging to a terrorist group.”
Eight months before the general elections, Turkey enacted a law on publishing misleading information in the middle of October. anyone who has been charged with disseminating “false or misleading information.
The law targets social media platforms, websites, and other forms of visual, audible, and textual media, and it mandates that they report any of their users who spread false or misleading material and grant law enforcement access to their personal data.
According to Article 29 of this law, a one- to three-year prison penalty will be imposed on anybody who “publishes false or misleading content, opposes the internal or external security of the country, would affect public health, or violates the lines.”
generating terror or dread among individuals, or maintaining public order.
Non -governmental organizations regularly denounce the deterioration of the freedom of the press in Turkey, which ranked 149 out of 180 in the classification of freedom of the press for the year 2022 published by “Reporters Without Borders”..
With the start of the implementation of a “exciting” law for the controversy .. Turkey detaining ten journalists
About Author
