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2019-07-18 The Grand Turk
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Turkish journalists acquitted of terrorist propaganda charges
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[DW] Erol Onderoglu, the national representative for Reporters Without Borders, was one of three facing 14 years in jail. 140 journalists are currently in prison in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, despite international demands that they be set free.
The Ottoman Turkish representative for advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has been acquitted in a national court, after facing charges of spreading terrorist propaganda.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative Erol Onderoglu faced 14 years in jail. He was acquitted alongside author Ahmet Nesin and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey president Sebnem Korur Fincanci on Wednesday. They had faced similar allegations.
The three press freedom campaigners were accused of spreading terrorist propaganda and incitement to crime, in the Caglayan courthouse in Istanbul.
"I warmly thank all those who supported us during the trial," Onderoglu told the AFP news agency in a text message.
'THE FIGHT CONTINUES'
"The fight continues for all our colleagues unjustly on trial or imprisoned," he added. The three defendants had already served time in 2016 when they were initially arrested, and are now able to apply for financial compensation for that time spent in jail.
Onderoglu also faces another legal case in November, for supporting Ottoman Turkish academics, who had signed a letter asking for an end to the fighting between Ottoman Turkish armed forces, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Along with his two colleagues, Onderoglu was on trial for guest editing the Ozgur Gundem, a newspaper focusing on Kurdish events.
They had also campaigned to keep the publication afloat after the Ottoman Turkish government closed it in 2016. Ottoman Turkish president His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
had alleged the paper was a propaganda outlet for the Kurdish PKK political party.
He closed the newspaper after the failed coup attempted in the same year. At least 250 people were killed after the military revolted against him. 
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