Action Alert: Journalists Detained in Turkey

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Subject:     Turkey action alert (journalists detained)
Date:        03/10  5:49 PM
From:        IFEX Clearing House, alerts at ifex.org


ACTION ALERT - TURKEY

10 March 1998

Journalists detained

SOURCE: Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), Paris 

(RSF/IFEX) - According to RSF, on 8 March 1998, journalists Faruk Aktas and

Bulent Acar of the daily Kurdish newspaper "Ulkede Gundem" were detained

along with at least fifty other people at an International Women's Day
demonstration in Taksim Square, Istanbul. Aktas and Acar were covering the

event. The two journalists have been detained at the Security Services
premises in Istanbul where a prosecutor advised police that the journalists

are to be held for four days. They are to appear in a State Security court

on 11 March 1998.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Send appeals to authorities:
-demanding the immediate release of Faruk Aktas and Bulent Acar

APPEALS TO:

Oltan Sungurlu
Miniser of Justice
Ankara, Turkey
Fax : +90 312 417 39 54

Please copy appeals to the source if possible.

For further information, contact Alexandre Levy or Phillippe Guerrier at

RSF, 5, rue Geoffroy Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84 84,

fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail: rsf at rsf.fr, Internet: http://www.rsf.fr


The information contained in this action alert is the sole responsibility
of
RSF. In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please credit
RSF.



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