Turkish Prosecutors Launch Investigation into Dogan Media

 

Reuters, 15/09 16:11 CET

By Ece Toksabay and Ebru Tuncay

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Dogan Media Group for alleged “terrorism propaganda”, authorities said on Tuesday, a move likely to deepen concern about media freedom to criticise government policy.

The investigation comes just days after offices of one Dogan newspaper, the mass circulation Hurriyet, was attacked by pro-government mobs who accused it of sympathising with the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) insurgent group.

Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin confirmed the investigation into Dogan but declined to give any details.

Turkey’s Anadolu Agency said the inquiry was launched on a complaint from a pro-government newspaper, which cited the publication of uncensored photographs of dead Turkish soldiers and an interview with someone who later joined the PKK. 

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Source: Euronews