Nedim Şener

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Nedim Şener (2015)

Nedim Şener (* 1966 in Germany ) is an award-winning Turkish investigative journalist and book author. He is currently writing for the Posta newspaper . His topics include, in particular, intelligence activities and corruption.

In March 2011, Şener and Ahmet Şık were charged with allegedly supporting the Ergenekon secret society . They had researched the Islamist scene, in particular the Gülen movement and its links with the ruling AKP government.

Life

Şener was born in Germany in 1966, but grew up in the district of Mengen in the Bolu province . His journalistic career began in 1991 in the newspaper " İlkhaber " (first message). Between 1992 and 1994 he worked for the newspaper Dünya (World) before switching to the daily Milliyet in November 1994 . Şener has published 14 books so far.

Legal proceedings

On June 4, 2010, the 11th Chamber of Serious Crimes in Istanbul acquitted Nedim Şener of allegations of breaching the secrecy of investigations and targeting terrorist organizations in connection with his book on the murder of Hrant Dink . At the hearing on April 28, 2010, the public prosecutor demanded three years in prison. A separate case over the book was conducted before the Second Criminal Court in Istanbul on charges of influencing legal proceedings, insulting officials and violating the secrecy of communications. It ended in December 2010 with an acquittal.

The 2nd Criminal Court in Bakırköy (Istanbul) spoke to Nedim Şener on May 31, 2011 of allegations of breach of the confidentiality of the investigation in connection with an interview he had with Şenay Avcı, the wife of Hanefi Avcı , on September 30th Published in the newspaper in 2010, free.

Nedim Şener was also charged with a message dated October 23, 2010 in Milliyet. Under the heading " Bribes fall out of their pockets" (" Rüşvet paraları ceplerden taşıyor "), some officials at the Bakırköy court were mentioned with initials, and judge Ferşat Aydın thought he was referring to FA. Therefore, two insult and breach of secrecy proceedings were opened. The court acquitted him of both charges on November 1, 2011.

Another case concerned an article that appeared in Milliyet in 2010 under the heading "The black bag was not in the room" (" Siyah çanta odada yoktu "). At the beginning of November 2001, Nedim Şener and the former editor-in-chief of Milliyet, Hasan Çakkalkurt, were tried before the 2nd criminal court in Bakirköy (Istanbul). The judge proposed to discontinue the case against a fine of 20,005 TL (approx. 8,000 euros) per defendant. The defendants can expect a sentence of between 18 months and 4.5 years in prison for allegedly violating the secrecy of files in an investigation against Hanefi Avcı.

On December 7, 2011, proceedings against Nedim Şener before the 2nd criminal court in Bakırköy ended with acquittal. He was accused of breaching the confidentiality obligation of an ongoing investigation in an article in Milliyet dated February 9, 2009 entitled "Interesting Police Scheme". In the schemes, a link had been made between defendants in the Ergenekon trial and the murder of Hrant Dink . The court took the view that the legal elements of the crime were not met.

Arrested in March 2011 and released in March 2012

On March 3, 2011, eleven people in Istanbul and Ankara were arrested by judges allegedly close to Gülen for preparations for a coup, including journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener. Şık had researched the infiltration of the police by the Islamist Gülen movement for his book “ The Imam's Army ” . Nine of the eleven detainees, including Şık and Şener, came to be Ergenekon in on charges, a member of the secret society 6 March 2011 detention .

At the end of August, the first reports of an indictment appeared in the Turkish press. The 134-page indictment names 14 suspects, 12 of them in custody. The focus is on the OdaTV Internet portal. The defendants are accused of having founded, directed or belonged to the armed terrorist organization "Ergenekon", helped the organization incite hatred and hostility to the people, obtained documents about the security of the state or secret documents, the right to Violating privacy, storing personal information, and attempting to influence fair trials.

According to the indictment, Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener are accused of helping the Ergenekon secret society and the Ergenekon terrorist organization, respectively. The sentence was 7.5 to 15 years imprisonment. Nedim Şener was accused of conveying the instructions of the Ergenekon organization to Ahmet Şık.

Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık were released from custody by the Istanbul Criminal Court on March 13, 2012. Şener told journalists shortly after his release that he would repeat the same request that he made when he was arrested when he was released. And this loud “Justice for Hrant Dink ”. Until this is guaranteed, one can neither speak of freedom nor of security in this country.

Books

The books published by Nedim Şener include:

  • Deception from head to toe ( Tepeden Tırnağa Yolsuzluk 2001)
  • The nylon holding ( Naylon Holding 2002)
  • Uzanlar - collapse of a fear empire ( Uzanlar - Bir Korku İmparatorluğu'nun Çöküşü 2004)
  • Code name Atilla ( Kod Adı Atilla 2004)
  • Brother Kemal in the Land of Opportunities ( Fırsatlar Ülkesinde Bir Kemal Abi 2006)
  • Non-Profit Terrorist ( Hayırsever Terrorist 2006)
  • The Dink Murder and the Lies of the Secret Service ( Dink Cinayeti ve İstihbarat Yalanları 2009)
  • Fethullah Gülen and the "community" in the Ergenekon documents ( Ergenekon Belgelerinde Fethullah Gülen ve Cemaat 2009)
  • This is my life, Uğur Dündar ( İşte Hayatım, Uğur Dündar 2010)
  • Red Friday ( Kırmızı Cuma 2011)

Honourings and prices

  • In 1998, 1999 and 2000 he was named Business Journalist of the Year by the Turkish Journalists' Association ( Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti ).
  • 1998 Metin Göktepe Gazetecilik Ödülü ( Metin Göktepe Journalism Prize )
  • 2002 Sedat Simavi Gazetecilik Ödülü (de: Sedat Simavi Prize for Journalism)
  • In 2003 he was selected as Turkey's candidate for the Transparency International (TI) International Prize for Sincerity
  • In 2007 he won the Uğur Mumcu Prize of the Association of Contemporary Journalists (tr: Çağdaş Gazeteciler Cemiyeti ) for investigative journalism.
  • In 2009 he received the Press Freedom Prize from the Journalists' Association of Turkey.
  • 2010 Abdi İpekçi Yılın Gazetecilik Ödülü (de: Abdi İpekçi Journalist Award )
  • In 2010 the Union of Publishers of Turkey (tr: Türkiye Yayıncılar Birliği ) honored him with the prize for freedom of thought and expression for his book "The murder of Dink and the lies of the secret service (tr: " Dink Cinayeti ve İstihbarat Yalanları ") .
  • 2010 The International Press Institute selected him as one of the 60 Heroes of Freedom of the Press.
  • 2010 Oxfam / Novib PEN Freedom of Expression award
  • 2015 Prize for the freedom and future of the media from the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See the international PEN : PEN Free Expression Award winner, Nedim Sener, and writer Ahmet Sik formally charged on March 7, 2011, accessed on November 4, 2011
  2. ^ In the stranglehold of the religious , taz, September 21, 2011
  3. ↑ Ece Temelkuran: "The worst time to give up Turkey". In: derStandard.at. August 14, 2016, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Information on the kitapokuyoruz website , accessed on November 4, 2011
  5. ↑ a b See the English daily reports of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey TIHV on the pages of the Democratic Turkey Forum, DTF, accessed on November 4, 2011
  6. ↑ See the English daily reports of the TIHV at the DTF; Accessed November 4, 2011
  7. ↑ See the English daily reports of the TIHV at the DTF; Accessed November 4, 2011
  8. ↑ See the message in Radikal (daily newspaper) of November 1, 2011 ; Accessed November 4, 2011
  9. ↑ See the article in Radikal of November 3, 2001 ; Accessed November 4, 2011
  10. ↑ This article could still be found in the newspaper's archive in December 2011 .
  11. ↑ See a report in the daily newspaper Radikal from December 7, 2011 ; Accessed December 8, 2011
  12. ^ Daily report (Turkish) of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, TIHV of March 4, 2011 ; to be found on the website of the Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF); Accessed April 15, 2011
  13. ↑ Daily report (Turkish) of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, TIHV from 5.-7. March 2011 ; to be found on the website of the Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF); Accessed April 15, 2011
  14. ↑ See the daily newspaper Radikal of August 26, 2011
  15. ↑ a b A detailed rendition in German of parts of the indictment can be found in a private wiki ; Accessed September 17, 2011
  16. ↑ a b Details can be found at the Turkish Democratic Forum in the reports in August 2011 . Accessed September 12, 2011
  17. ↑ Sabah, March 12, 2012
  18. ↑ The list is taken from a page at sol.org.tr ; Accessed November 4, 2011
  19. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the prices are from the daily newspaper Hürriyet from March 3, 2011 , accessed on November 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Şener, Nedim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany