Trustees Enter Editorial Meeting with Police

Trustees accompanying police rushing editorial meeting of Bugün daily have scolded journalists, discharged them. One of them rejecting to comply with it wanted to be thrown out by battering, names of others have been taken and told them they are fired.

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Chief editor unseated

Chief Editor of Bugün daily Erhan Başyurt has been unseated by the trustee appointed to Koza İpek Holding.

Bugün TV Tarık Toros was dismissed with a scripted paper issued to him.

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"You will comply with our instructions"

The trustees appointed to Bugün daily giving a speech to employees following dismissal of Chief Editor Erhan Başyurt have notified that the newspaper will be published by tomorrow.

According to Cihan Acar's Periscope broadcast, the employees were told that they would "continue to work there as long as they comply with the instructions".

Chief editor said it wouldn't be easy to do their job at a place of police presence. One of the trustees shouted at journalists "Yesterday's publication was a disgrace". When the employees reacted against that, the trustee said "If everyone will keep speaking their mind, then we will speak back accordingly".

When one of the staff said referring to the newspaper "It is our honor", the trustee asked of his name and wrote it down on a paper shouting "Get out". Uniformed police officers and security forces battered the journalist.

"Their unlawfulnesses recorded"

One of the reporters of the newspaper, Cihan Acar, wrote as follows on his Twitter account:

"Let me tell you what happened. We are having a historic day today. The trustee wanted to sack and throw us out...The reason was the headline we were backing. All these were being recorded and watched by thousands...When they wanted to throw me out, my only concern was signal be cut. All their unlawfulnesses are recorded. As a journalist I tried to do my duty up to the end, conveyed information to people. I will make my living by selling bagel rather than remain silent against this usurpation".

Trustees

Here are the trustees appointed to media companies of Koza İpek Holding:

Ali Rıza Esmen (Former Vice General Director at Petkim and ex-employee of Turkish Airways (THY)

Çetin Altay

Hüdai Bal (He used to work at Turkuaz Media Group, and later appointed to Show TV administration by Saving Deposit Insurance Fund)

Fatih İcin (He is working at İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality)

Bilal Koyuncu

Ümit Önal (He worked as commercial group president at Turkuaz Media Group. He is board member of Digiturk) (AS/TK)

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