Journalists Book Tracing Gladio Condemned

Milliyet daily reporter Belma Akçura got condemned to imprisonment on allegations of defamation on her latest book that examines the relations between the Turkish gladio and the establishment. Imprisonment was enclosed to a fine.

Erol Önderoğlu

Daily Milliyet reporter Belma Akçura got condemned to three months of imprisonment following a complaint of defamation by one of the personage in her latest non-fiction titled "Gladio Became the Establishment" (Derin Devlet Oldu Devlet).

The ruling was then enclosed to a fine amounting to 1 800 YTL (around a thousand euros).

Nevzat Bor, whose relations with the deceased gladio leader and hitman Abdullah Çatlı, employed by the Turkish intelligence services were featured on the book, file a complaint against Akçura on grounds that she "defamation of personal rights via press".

Akçura defended herself saying the alleged statements in the book had been already published on other sources and they're general statements that don't constitute an insult.

The book appertains to political murders of 1990's that remain obscure up to the day, gladio-state relations that surfaced following a car crash in 1996 which involved a police chief, a politician and the gladio leader in question, Abdullah Çatlı.(EO/EÜ)

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Erol Önderoğlu

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A graduate of the French Language and Literature Department at İstanbul University. He has served as the Turkey representative for the international organization Reporters Without...

A graduate of the French Language and Literature Department at İstanbul University. He has served as the Turkey representative for the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), where he began as a reporter in 1996. Since 1999, he has worked at bianet, a project of the IPS Communication Foundation, as the coordinator of the Legal Support Desk, editor for freedom of expression, and editor-in-chief. He has authored more than 4,800 signed news articles and opinion pieces. He has also written for Bizim Gazete and the journal Güncel Hukuk. He currently prepares the Media Monitoring Reports at bianet.