The journalists have been supported by an international campaign that has highlighted the lack of press freedom and freedom of speech in Turkey. His lawyer, Figen Calikusu, said that neither she nor her client had been informed of the latest court decision to detain him again. “We again learned about the decision from the media,” Calikusu wrote on Twitter. Erdogan has been accused of using the coup as an excuse to imprison political and social opponents. Turkey has been named by human rights organisations as responsible for imprisoning the largest number of journalists of any country alongside China.

Source: bd News24 November 13, 2019 05:53 UTC