Turkey says local court to evaluate ruling on jailed journalists

Reuters ^ | January 12, 2018 / 5:31 AM | Tuvan Gumrukcu, Daren Butler

[Texas Fossil]

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday the case of two journalists held for more than a year over alleged ties to a failed coup would be decided by a local court, after the Constitutional Court ruled they be freed, a turnaround likely to deepen concerns for press freedom.

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Earlier on Friday Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said the top court had overstepped its limit.

“When ruling on individual applications, the Constitutional Court... cannot act like a super appeals court and cannot make rulings like such courts,” Bozdag wrote on Twitter.

[Texas Fossil]

In Turkey, there is no law above Erdogan.

Like during Obama in the US?

They have replaced the law of the land with the law of the jungle.

[LouieFisk]

Fake “journalists” and a Turkish prison - there’s a plan, but does it have enough room for the entire CNN lineup?

[FreedomPoster]

We had a Turkish journalist in exile speak to us at Rotary a year or so ago. You really appreciate 1A and 2A after hearing and seeing what is going on over there. He had an interesting video of the government takeover of their media company. He was lucky to get himself and his family out of the country. He would probably be dead or in a prison with terrible conditions had he not done so.