The Turkish justice system sometimes feels like a show that would be fun if the subject occurs so serious. On Friday, April 18, in the 27-A Chamber of the Palace of Justice of çaglayan in Istanbul, 99 defendants, mostly students, were called to defend against the accusations of participating in not authorized protests after the City Hall of the city, in the city of the city, in the city of the city, in the city of the city. In the city. Main rival and nemesis or president Rece Tayyip Erdogan. Among the many present, often standing or sitting in the halls, were three reporters and four photographic journalists, including Bülent Kiliç, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2014, and Yasin Akgül of Agency France-Presse, which they were.
From the first minutes of the hearing, one of the journalists’ lawyers, Veyel Ok, reminded the court for the fantasy charges invented by what he called a parody of justice. Forced to explain the presence of their clients in the protests, he declared very seriously that “journalists cover the protests, they are paid to do that and in fact they were there as journalists.”
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