Bianet 30 June 2016

Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Erol Önderoğlu have been released

Turkey Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) Chair Şebnem Korur Fincancı, and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Turkey Representative and bianet rapporteur Erol Önderoğlu who got arrested on charge of “terror organization propaganda” for participating in Özgür Gündem daily’s Editor-in-Chief on Watch campaign.

Attorneys’ objections against the arrest have been accepted.

No decision has been issued yet on arrested journalist Ahmet Nesin.

Those who served as Editor-in-Chief

44 people supported the campaign of Editor-in-Chief launched on May 3. Names of the people who joined the campaing are as follows:

Hasan Cemal, Şeyhmus Diken, Hasan Hayri Şanlı, Cengiz Baysoy, Dicle Anter, Faruk Balıkçı, Kemal Can, Jülide Kural, Ahmet Nesin, Deniz Türkali, Necmiye Alpay, Çilem Küçükkeleş, Saruhan Oluç, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, Ahmet Abakay, Hasip Kaplan, İhsan Eliaçık, Yıldırım Türker, Murat Çelikkan, Ayşe Batumlu, Nadire Mater, Aydın Engin, Tuğrul Eryılmaz, İhsan Çaralan, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Işın Eliçin, Uğur Karataş, Mehmet Güç, Beyza Üstün, Celalettin Can, Sebahat Tuncel, Erol Önderoğlu, Nurcan Baysal, Eşber Yağmurdereli, Ragıp Duran, Melda Onur, Celal Başlangıç, Mustafa Sönmez, Ayşe Düzkan, Uğur Güç, Faruk Eren, Kumru Başer, Nevin Erdemir ve Hakkı Boltan.

Those into whom investigation has been launched

Those into whom investigation has been launched are as follows:

Faruk Eren, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, Ayşe Düzkan, Erol Önderoğlu, Celalettin Can, Mustafa Sönmez, Melda Onur, Fehim Işık, Celal Başlangıç, Eşber Yağmurdereli, Ragıp Duran, Nurcan Baysal, Ömer Ağın, Ahmet Abakay,İhsan Çaralan, Işın Eliçin, Murat Çelikkan, Uğur Karataş, Öncü Akgül,Ayşe Batumlu, Sebahat Tuncel, Saruhan Oluç, Nadire Mater, Beyza Üstün, Mehmet Güç, Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Faruk Balıkçı, Şeyhmus Diken,Necmiye Alpay, Jülide Kural, Yıldırım Türker, Ahmet Nesin, Kemal Can,Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Hasip Kaplan, Nevin Erdemir, Tuğrul Eryılmaz ve Hakkı Boltan.

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