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    "In Turkey you can be brought before a judge or tribunal for what you
    write on Twitter or Facebook"


    Agencia Prensa Armenia
    http://www.prensaarmenia.com.ar/2015/01/in-turkey-you-can-be-brought-before.html

    On the 8th anniversary of Hrant Dink's murder, Prensa Armenia
    interviewed Nedim Şener, a Turkish journalist that investigated
    the large amount of evidence on the role of the police, close to the
    Gülen Movement, in preparing the ground for the murder of Hrant Dink.


    He spent a year at the high security prison in Silivri on charges of
    being a member of an armed terrorist organization and he is currently
    facing a possible sentence of 15 years in his trial.

    What did Hrant Dink represent for the Turkish society? Was he
    dangerous?

    Hrant Dink was the peacemaker, the representative of peace for the
    Turkish society, but it was dangerous for the Turkish state. In his
    youth he had been persecuted accused of involvement in leftist and
    pro-Armenian activities and after founding the Agos newspaper, he was
    under close surveillance. All this proves that Dink was seen as
    dangerous to the state. He wanted to prove that discussions in Turkey
    about the Armenian Genocide were possible to make them in a language
    of peace and empathy, but he was not allowed. Instead of friendship,
    enmity and fear won.

    Who was behind his murder?

    The gang who pulled the trigger and the officials that the state had
    on the street. We know all the names and years ago we wrote about
    them. The intelligence service of the Police, the National
    Intelligence Organization and the Border Police are responsible for
    first-degree murder. A part of the research includes the members of
    the Gülen community. Soon we will see progress on this issue, and that
    will open the case again.

    What was the role of Gülen in the construction of the repressive
    apparatus in Turkey?

    The seeds of fear in society were sown long before the growth of the
    Gülen Movement. The Gülen community is the basis of today's climate of
    fear through the state bureaucracy, particularly the Police, the
    intelligence, the Attorney General and through the media that they
    handle. The news published in their media were the first to support
    the police and prosecutors operations that filed charged against
    journalists who were arrested and imprisoned as members of a terrorist
    organization. In fact, after the documents that I wrote concerning
    Ergenekon, the books about Fetullah Gülen, assassination of Hrant Dink
    and the lies of intelligence, I was their target.

    What is your opinion about the recent raids on journalists in Turkey?

    Press freedom leads the list of the worst things that happen in
    Turkey. The previous discussion was on this subject, but the events
    show us that it is now a matter of freedom of expression. Not only
    they accuse you for what you write in newspapers or books, but you can
    also be brought before a judge or tribunal for what you write on
    Twitter or Facebook. Therefore in Turkey the issue is not only of
    press freedom but also of what society writes.

    ( Link -> http://www.prensaarmenia.com.ar/ )
    Agencia de Noticias Prensa Armenia
    Armenia 1366, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Tel. (5411) 4775-7595
    [email protected]
    twitter.com/PrensaArmenia
    www.prensaarmenia.com.ar

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