Erdem Gül

Erdem Gül and Can Dündar 2016

Erdem Gül (* 1967 in Giresun ) is a journalist and politician from Turkey . He was the main defendant in the Cumhuriyet trial .

Life

Gül studied journalism at Gazi University and began his professional career in 1992 with the Turkish news agency Anka . Since 2010 he has been parliamentary reporter for the Cumhuriyet newspaper and since 2013 the capital office manager in Ankara. Gül is married and has two children. In 2016 he was awarded the Hermann Kesten Prize together with Can Dündar .

Cumhuriyet trial

Gül and Can Dündar , the editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet , published a jointly written report in spring 2015 with photos of alleged arms deliveries by Turkey to extremists in Syria in 2014. Gül and Dündar were arrested in November 2015. They were accused of espionage , divulging state secrets, preparing a coup d'état and aiding and abetting the formation of a terrorist group. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Turkish intelligence service were joint plaintiffs. At the end of February 2016, the Constitutional Court ordered the end of pre-trial detention. In its reasoning, the court stated that the personal freedom and security of journalists and the freedom of the press had been violated.

President Erdoğan responded to the decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court by saying that he would neither recognize nor obey the judgment.

In May 2016, a court found Gül and Dündar guilty of disclosing classified documents, and on May 6, 2016 both were convicted. Gül received five years imprisonment. The verdict is not yet legally binding. On July 16, 2018, Gül was finally acquitted, but Dündar was not.

politics

Gül ran as a CHP candidate for the office of mayor of Adalar in the 2019 local elections and won with almost 44%.

Awards

On April 10, 2016, he and Can Dündar received the Metin Göktepe Journalism Prize . On October 7, 2016, Gül and Can Dündar received the Leipzig Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media .

Web links

• Constanze Letsch: Turkish journalists face secret trial for revealing arms deliveries to Syria , The Guardian , March 25, 2016
• Sharp criticism of the conviction of "Cumhuriyet" journalists , Zeit online , May 7, 2016

See also

• List of media workers detained in Turkey (after 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erdem Gül kimdir - Biyografi.net.tr. In: biyografi.net.tr. Retrieved December 14, 2019 (Turkish). 
2. ↑ Leading journalists arrested in Turkey - Politics - SZ.de. In: sueddeutsche.de. November 26, 2015, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Can Dündar and Erdem Gül: Trial against Turkish journalists begins - SPIEGEL ONLINE. In: spiegel.de. March 25, 2016, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Erdem Gül, Turkey. In: pen-deutschland.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Karen Krüger: Can Dündar judgment is an example of Erdogan's attack on freedom of the press. In: faz.net. May 10, 2016, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Erdem Gül: acquittal for prominent Cumhuriyet journalists. In: zeit.de. July 16, 2018, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 2019 Yerel Seçim Sonuçları NTV'de. Retrieved September 22, 2019 (Turkish). 
8. ↑ Metin Göktepe ödülleri sahiplerine verildi , Evrensel, April 10, 2016.
9. ↑ Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig "Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media: Prize Winners 2016" Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. (No longer available online.) In: www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de. Archived from the original on November 9, 2016 ; Retrieved November 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.