A lawsuit was filed against journalist Cansu Pişkin due to the news she covered on Evrensel newspaper’s April 5, 2018 issue with the title, “Special Prosecutor for Boğaziçi Students,” on the university students arrested for protesting against the Afrin operation.
The indictment of the case charges Pişkin with “targeting a public officer for terrorist organizations” due to revealing the name of the Prosecutor conducting the investigation against the journalist. The first hearing of the case will be held on March 6, 2019 at Istanbul 36th Assize Court.
A group of students had distributed Turkish delights at Boğaziçi University on March 19 to celebrate the Afrin operation; another group of students who reacted against this celebration and demanded peace were detained and arrested. The news indicated that the investigation file was handed to Prosecutor Ergün Güçlü on the day the students were transferred to the courthouse and reminded the readers that Güçlü had described the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) as “the party conducting its politics under a terrorist organization lead” on a different investigation he conducted.
13.12.2018
evrensel.net