Turkish journalists charged with helping Kurd rebels Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.35 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 85.18.136.86 From: "gwen831" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Yahoo-Profile: gwen831 Sender: osint@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list osint@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list osint@yahoogroups.com List-Id: <osint.yahoogroups.com> Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:11:04 -0000 Subject: [osint] Reply-To: osint@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=26264 World (as of 10:36 AM) Turkish journalists charged with helping Kurd rebels ANKARA - Turkish state prosecutors on Monday charged nine people, including a journalist who works for Reuters news agency, with spreading propaganda on behalf of Kurdish separatists. If found guilty the nine, who include other journalists and human rights activists, face up to three years in jail. Turkish national Ferit Demir, a stringer for Reuters based in the eastern town of Tunceli, was detained last August when he observed the handover of a soldier abducted by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels to representatives of a human rights group. He and the other men were then freed pending investigations. Journalists have often fallen foul of Turkish authorities over coverage of a conflict in the southeast that has cost some 30,000 lives. A government pursuing European Union entry has eased curbs on the media and on Kurdish language and culture, but the judiciary remains a conservative force. In its indictment, the Tunceli prosecutor's office accused the nine of using the kidnapped soldier to promote the cause of the PKK, which has waged an armed struggle against Turkish security forces in the impoverished southeast since 1984. Demir denied the accusations. "It is absolutely out of the question that I conducted PKK propaganda. I was only doing my job as a journalist," he said. The prosecutors set March 3 as the date for the first hearing in the trial. PKK rebels held the soldier captive for nearly four weeks in a remote region of the southeast before releasing him. Turkey blames the PKK, classified by the United States as a terrorist organization, for the deaths and economic damage inflicted on the region over two decades. Violence eased after the 1999 capture of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan but has grown again since PKK ended a five-year unilateral ceasefire in 2004. Reuters -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
