Yildiz, who used to work for a pro-government news publication in
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
and supported the ruling Justice and Development Party, now criticized President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...who was the reason behind her sentencing and exile.
In her interview with The Global Post, in January 2014, Yildiz broke a major story revealing that three
Erdogan had insisted that the trucks were ferrying aid to Turkmen in Syria, and ordered the arrest of the publication’s editor Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul, who were later tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in May 2016 for five years for "revealing state secrets."
Two months later, Yildiz got a 20-month sentence, and lost guardianship of her children who are now eight and three years old.
"I was forced to leave behind my kids, my family," the news site reported her as saying. "I don’t know when or how or if I will ever see them again."
"If I go there, I lose my freedom," she added.
The Committee to Project Journalists had again named Turkey as the world’s leading jailer of journalists last week, putting 73 behind bars in 2017.