Instead of going on his honeymoon, Turkish journalist ended up detained: They took us to the police station and …

cles, interviews, phone calls and meetings made by the suspected journalists, as it was earlier reported by IFJ.

When I decided to travel to Belgrade on my honeymoon with my wife, the police confiscated our passports and detained us. They took us to the police station and locked us in separate rooms, Ulus continues.

He added that journalists are afraid to write freely and very few of them manage to do that, because a great number of those who dare to speak critically are already in prison or they have been put under trial.

According to the data on the website turkeypurge.com, after the coup attempt in Turkey in only two months almost 24 000 people have been arrested, 117 of whom are journalists; 160 media outlets have been shut down.

Photo: turkeypurge.com

“An attack against one of us is an attack on all of us! We will continue to follow all the cases offering our solidarity and support. We are asking people in Turkey and Europe to support journalism and democracy because both are under serious threats”, Barry White from the EFJ stated yesterday referring on the start of a “judicial marathon” of journalists in Turkey. Namely, yesterday the hearing of five different prosecution cases against journalists started, among which is the trial against journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül  and journalists and writers Mehmet Altan and Ahmet Altan, which Fairpress already reported on.