Before the building of the editors of Cumhuriyet is 80-year-old journalist Orkhan ARINC
Turkey arrested nine people, the oldest opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, including chief editor Murat Sabuncu. On Saturday, November 5, reports the Hürriyet Daily News.
The journalists Hikmet of Cetinkaya and Aydin Engin, which previously was also detained, was released on his own recognizance.
Employees Cumhuriyet accused of supporting the opposition movement of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of organizing the coup in July this year, and the forbidden in Turkey Kurdistan workers ‘ party in Turkey is actually equivalent to the involvement in terrorist activities.
October 31 was arrested 11 journalists of the newspaper Cumhurriyet. When this was issued the detention order on the 15th of the magazine’s staff, four of whom, presumably, are outside the country.
In addition, the Turkish authorities also issued a warrant for the arrest of the former editor-in-chief Cumhurriyet Jana Dündar, who currently lives abroad. He was arrested in 2015 for the publication of the secret supply of weapons to militants Ankara to Syria. The prosecution demanded a life prison term, but subsequently a large part of the charges were dropped. In may, Dündar had made an unsuccessful attempt, after which he, fearing for his life, went to a temporary place of residence in Germany.
An armed rebellion occurred in Turkey in the night of July 16. It was suppressed by the authorities. In the course of the failed coup killed more than 230 people, more than 2.2 thousand were injured. Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens were detained or arrested on suspicion of involvement in the rebellion.
The authorities demanded that Washington gave the United States residing in Gulen. Himself opposition condemned the coup attempt and declared his innocence to her.