June 5, 2014

05/06/2014: TURKEY – NEW CASES IN TURKEY

Vienna, 05/06/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is worried about the news, that a Turkish prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence for Taraf newspaper journalist Mehmet Baransu and the newspaper editor Murat Şevki Çoban. The prosecutor is asking for 26 and 52 years in jail for the journalists for publishing a document about a meeting of the National Security Council in 2004. Mehmet Baransu published this document in November 2013