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Good news: Writer and Journalist Ahmet Altan released.
But over a hundred journalists and thousands of criminals of thought fill the prisons.
Even we are not able to follow up.
After 1995 IFoX was able to follow up the basic cases of FoX.
Yasar Kemal, Oral Çalışlar, Ragıp Zarakolu, publisher of Noam Chomsky, then Orhan Pamuk, Hrant Dink, and others, and report regularly.
Later we arranged a database on the Internet titled ÇETELE (Current Trial Library) but it is impossible to follow up now.
The main articles to be used are Anti Terror Law 7 (Terrorist propaganda or despite not being a member, supporting on behalf of the terrorist organization.
An insulting the state official 125, then the State President 299.
Of course insulting Turkishess and here or there ote State. 300-305
He insults everybody, everyday on TV but his insults are freedom of expression.
Howcome?
Because after conquering the mass media, he also conquered the Judiciary.
- High Commission of Judges and prosecutors: Dealing with appointments & promotions,
- Changed the status of High Courts. Appeal Court, established C.o.Cassations, Peace Judicutares and the judges were appointed by the early conqoured HCoJP
- Decisions of the Const. Court and ECHR are rejected, denied…