A decree was issued in the lawsuit filed against previously shut-down Taraf Daily writer Mehmet Baransu and Managing Editor Murat Şevki Çoban at Anatolian 2nd Assize Court. Among the journalists tried due to the news article, “The decision to end Gülen was taken in 2004 at the State Security Council,” Çoban was acquitted. Baransu was sentenced to 16 years and 13 months of imprisonment due to “disclosing confidential documents of the government through press.”
In the news article, “The Decision to End Gülen Was Taken in 2004 at the State Security Council” published on November 28, 2013, appendices of the Decree No. 481 of the State Security Council (MGK) meeting on August 25, 2004 were published. The news became a daily series and the decrees were asserted to have “contained measures to eliminate activities of the Gülen community.”
23.11.2020
Expression Interrupted