{"id":28098,"date":"2010-12-05T03:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2014-01-05T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T21:57:16","slug":"turkish-reporter-faces-79-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/05\/turkish-reporter-faces-79-years-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish reporter faces 79 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/ataturksocietyuk.com\/2010\/11\/30\/turkish-reporter-faces-79-years-in-jail\/\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>30Nov10<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 id=\"heading-alone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28099\" title=\"ISMAIL SAUMAZ\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ISMAIL-SAUMAZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"78\" \/><\/h1>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\">\n<p>Turkish reporter <strong>Ismail Saymaz<\/strong> faces 79 years in prison for writing articles in the Turkish daily newspaper <strong>Radikal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He has  nine separate legal cases against him. Among the charges are violation  of the secrecy of an investigation, insult and an attempt to influence a  fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>Saymaz  says: \u201cI only do my job as a reporter, inform the public on the events  that the public is interested in, and supply them with objective  information. I do not try to influence in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is  supported by the International Press Institute (IPI), which argues that  certain Turkish laws and the country\u2019s penal code are inimical to <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/press-freedom\">press freedom<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>One of  IPI\u2019s Turkish members, Ferai Tinc, said the laws prevent journalists  from doing their job. She added: \u201cAt present, 48 journalists are in  prison and more than 700 journalists face imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IPI press freedom manager <strong>Anthony Mills<\/strong> said: \u201cIPI reiterates that it is unacceptable that journalists be  criminally charged simply because the content of what they write is not  liked by the authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.freemedia.at\/singleview\/5182\/\">IPI<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30Nov10 Turkish reporter Ismail Saymaz faces 79 years in prison for writing articles in the Turkish daily newspaper Radikal. He has nine separate legal cases against him. Among the charges are violation of the secrecy of an investigation, insult and an attempt to influence a fair trial. Saymaz says: \u201cI only do my job as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4048],"class_list":["post-28098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}