Şerife Oruç

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Şerife Oruç is a Turkish journalist . She was detained from 2016 to 2018 on charges of terrorist support.

Şerife Oruç worked for the pro-Kurdish news agency Dicle Haber Ajansı . The agency was banned on July 29, 2016 under the Persistent State of Emergency Act in Turkey . The journalist is said to have repeatedly reported on expropriations in Sur, the historic old town of Diyarbakır .

Oruç was arrested on July 3 or July 4, 2016, along with her cousin and a driver on the way from Diyarbakır to Batman . She was accused of membership in the PKK . The police justified the allegation with the statements of two witnesses. The journalist Oruç had initially only identified these in photographs, without a statement being recorded; the indictment was dismissed by a judge in October 2016. The witnesses' testimony was recorded in writing in March 2017 and the indictment was admitted almost ten months after they were arrested. However, the witnesses did not testify in court. According to Oruç's lawyers, according to the files, one of the witnesses was manifestly inefficient and the second witness had withdrawn his testimony. Oruç was released in July 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sybille Klormann, Carly Laurence, Till Black, Paul Blickle, Ferdinand Otto: Press freedom in Turkey: Zehra, Serkan, Yakup - accused of journalism . In: The time . March 5, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Oliver Mayer-Rüth: Uncomfortable before the judge. In: tagesschau.de. March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ www.platform24.org
  4. ↑ http://m.bianet.org/english/media/199042-journalist-serife-oruc-released accessed on August 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Oruç, Serife
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century