2023-05-17 16:01:09
Turkey has summoned the German Ambassador Schulz. Previously, there had been a search of journalists from a Turkish newspaper in Hesse. It was about the suspicion of a “dangerous dissemination of personal data”.
After a search of journalists from the Turkish newspaper “Sabah” in Hesse, Turkey summoned the German ambassador Jürgen Schulz. This was announced by the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The background was “the unfounded arrest of representatives of the Frankfurt office of the newspaper ‘Sabah’ by the German police,” the statement said. The newspaper is considered pro-government.
The responsible public prosecutor told the dpa news agency that there had been no arrests. In a statement, it was also said that the Darmstadt public prosecutor’s office and the police had searched the private apartments of two 46 and 51-year-old journalists in Mörfelden-Walldorf in southern Hesse in the morning. The men were released after the search.
According to the investigators, there is a suspicion of “dangerous dissemination of personal data”, as regulated in Section 126a of the Criminal Code. Storage media and other evidence were secured during the operation. The investigators did not want to give any further details because of the ongoing process.
Türkiye sees connection with elections
Turkey’s foreign ministry said Germany wanted to “educate the whole world about freedom of the press and freedom of expression.” The action “against the free press” reveals the country’s “double standards”.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the journalists fell victim to an unfounded complaint by a member of the Gülen organization. Turkey sees the so-called Gülen movement behind the attempted coup in July 2016 and lists it as a terrorist organization.
She also linked the incident to Sunday’s parliamentary and presidential elections. The fact that the action took place immediately after the first round of the election was a “deliberate act”. In the presidential elections in Turkey on Sunday, incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly missed out on an absolute majority and has to face the runner-up, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in a run-off on May 28.
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