Journalista testify over ‘terrorist propaganda’ for tweets
ISTANBUL (DİHA) - An investigation was launched May 28 into social media posts made by a number of prominent media figures during the March 31 hostage crisis in Istanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse.
The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has summoned journalist and anchorman Mirgün Cabas to testify on charges of “creating terrorist organization propaganda” over his comments on the hostage crisis.
In addition to Cabas, academic Koray Çalışkan and journalists Pelin Batu and Banu Güven are also being investigated for their tweets on the incident, on the same charge.
“No matter how this [hostage crisis] ends, there is only one lesson to take: Do not shoot the children and do not boo the mothers,” Cabas had tweeted, referring to then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s encouragement of his supporters to boo the family of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, while the latter was in a coma.
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