(RSF/IFEX) – According to information released by RSF on 22 April 1998, on 21 April 1998, members of the police, both in uniform and plainclothes, forced journalists to leave a courtroom in Aydin (in western Turkey). Inside the courtroom a trial of police officers, accused of having tortured a student to death in 1993, was […]
(RSF/IFEX) – According to information released by RSF on 22 April 1998, on
21 April 1998, members of the police, both in uniform and plainclothes,
forced journalists to leave a courtroom in Aydin (in western Turkey). Inside
the courtroom a trial of police officers, accused of having tortured a
student to death in 1993, was taking place. At least five journalists were
beaten by police outside the courthouse: Mert Ilkutlug, journalist for the
daily “Milliyet”, Hakan Gulce, journalist with the private television chain
ATV, editorial writer Celal Baslangic, and Selma Yildiz and Ahmet Sik,
journalists with the daily “Radikal.” Other journalists with the regional
press were also manhandled. Most of the journalists were taken to hospital
to be treated for various injuries.
Mert Ilkutlug and Ahmet Sik were detained for more than a half hour in a
police station before being taken to hospital. One of them received five
stitches to the face.
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