Journalist Doğansoy: "False Allegations because I am Targeted"

Journalist Fuat Doğansoy said that the news about him published in the national Vakit newspaper stating that "he was caught with drugs in Finland" did not reflect the truth.

Doğansoy assumes that he became a target because of his news for the Fırat News Agency (ANF) saying that games were being played on the Armenians and that there are secret deals between the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the USA. He had furthermore reported about assassination attempts directed at leaders of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which is listed as a terror organization in many countries.

Doğansoy: Neither police statement nor news in the papers

Doğansoy called bianet in regard to the allegations recently published about him. He said that the Police in Finland did not make any statements related to the allegations and that nothing was published in the Finnish newspaper that was quoted as the source of the supposed information.

Doğansoy had been subject to an assault on 15 March 2009 when he prepared a documentary entitled "2 July - Documentary of Death" about the Sivas Massacre. The Sivas massacre in central Anatolia was an attack against Alevi intellectuals and artists. 37 people lost their lives when the Madimak Hotel was set on fire on 2 July 1993. Doğansoy recalled that despite the attack a trial was launched against him based on article 216 of the Turkish Criminal Court (TCK) on "inciting hatred and hostility amongst the public and humiliation of the public." The Governor of Sivas had made an announcement to diclaim Doğansoy's allegations of the assault.

Subject of investigation into "Revolutionary Headquarters"

Doğansoy furthermore said that an investigation was initiated into his alleged connections to the Revolutionary Headquarters organization. When asked if he responded to the investigation, Doğansoy replied, "Should I respond when people involved in the Revolutionary Headquarters case are kept in prison for ten months for nothing?" The journalist dismissed the claims that he had any connections to the Revolutionary Headquarters organization. (EÖ/VK)