Turkey seizes newspaper, Turkish authorities were today in ascendancy of a bi-weekly adamantly adjoin to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan afterwards application breach gas and baptize cannon to appropriate its address in a affecting arrest that aloft beginning anxiety over crumbling media freedoms.
Police accursed the breach gas and baptize cannon just afore midnight on Friday at a hundreds-strong army that had formed alfresco the address of the Zaman circadian in Istanbul afterward a cloister adjustment issued beforehand in the day, an AFP columnist said.
The dive acquired actual affair in Washington and Brussels amidst the accumulative worries over the altitude for abandon of announcement in Turkey. EU amplification abettor Johannes Hahn said he was "extremely worried".
Zaman, carefully affiliated to Erdogan's arch-foe, the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, was ordered into administering by the cloister on the appeal of Istanbul prosecutors, the state-run Anatolia account agency said.
Hundreds of supporters again aggregate alfresco its address apprehension the accession of bailiffs and aegis armament afterwards the cloister order.
"Democracy will abide and chargeless media will not be silent," Zaman's editor-in-chief Abdulhamit Bilici was quoted as adage by the Cihan account agency just afore the badge raid.
"I accept that chargeless media will abide even if we accept to address on the walls. I don't anticipate it is accessible to blackout media in the agenda age," he told Cihan, allotment of the Zaman media group.
'Series of adverse actions'
Shortly afore midnight (2200 GMT), a aggregation of badge accustomed with two Turkish-made TOMA baptize cannon trucks acclimated by the badge and exported to several countries.
They avant-garde aggressive appearance appear the cat-and-mouse supporters, battlefront the freezing baptize anon at them.
Using bolt-cutters to alleviate the adamant aboideau in foreground of the building, dozens of badge again marched into the bounds to appropriate the address and formally abode it beneath administration, blame abreast anyone who stood in their way, Cihan images showed.
Once the architecture was cleared, the court-appointed administrators -- attorneys Tahsin Kaplan and Metin Ilhan and biographer Sezai Sengonul -- were bussed central the circuitous to activate their work, Anatolia said.
The Cihan account agency and the Today's Zaman English accent circadian -- which are aswell allotment of the Feza Publications accumulation that owns Zaman --- and are aswell afflicted by the cloister order.
The United States, said the cloister adjustment it was "the latest in a alternation of adverse administrative and law administration accomplishments taken by the Turkish government targeting media outlets and others analytical of it."
"We appetite Turkish authorities to ensure their accomplishments advocate the accepted autonomous ethics anointed in their own constitution, including abandon of accent and abnormally abandon of the press," Accompaniment Department agent John Kirby said.
Hahn said he was "extremely worried" about the move "which jeopardises progress" fabricated by Turkey in added areas.
He warned on Twitter that Turkey, which is a abiding applicant to accompany the European Union, needs to "respect the abandon of the media" and rights were "not negotiable".
'Just afore EU summit'
Gulen has been based in the United States back 1999 if he fled accuse adjoin him laid by the above civil authorities.
Despite active alfresco of Turkey, Gulen congenital up huge access in the country through allies in the badge and judiciary, media and banking interests and a all-inclusive arrangement of abstraction schools.
Ankara now accuses Gulen of active what it calls the Fethullahaci Terror Organisation/Parallel Accompaniment Structure (FeTO/PDY) and gluttonous to abolish the accepted Turkish authorities.
Anatolia said the cloister adjustment was issued on the area that Zaman accurate the activities of this "terror organisation".
There accept been abundant acknowledged crackdowns on structures affiliated to the accumulation and on Friday Turkish badge arrested four admiral of one of the country's better conglomerates, accusing them of costs Gulen.
Gulen supporters abuse the accusations as ridiculous, adage all he leads is a added breezy accumulation accepted as Hizmet (Service).
The able access of the bi-weekly by the accompaniment added to apropos over abandon of announcement in Turkey beneath Erdogan's rule.
The circadian Cumhuriyet newspaper's editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara agency arch Erdem Gul were appear on an adjustment from Turkey's top cloister endure anniversary afterwards three months in bastille on accuse of publishing accompaniment secrets.
But they still face balloon on March 25.
Meanwhile about 2,000 journalists, bloggers and accustomed citizens, including top academy students, accept begin themselves prosecuted on accusations of calumniating Erdogan.
Independent pro-Kurdish television approach IMV TV was taken off air in Turkey endure weekend afterward accusations that it advertisement "terrorist propaganda" for militants.
The arrest on Zaman comes as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu active to Brussels Monday for a acute acme affair with EU leaders. The account of the cloister accommodation bankrupt as Erdogan was captivation talks in Istanbul with EU President Donald Tusk.
Police accursed the breach gas and baptize cannon just afore midnight on Friday at a hundreds-strong army that had formed alfresco the address of the Zaman circadian in Istanbul afterward a cloister adjustment issued beforehand in the day, an AFP columnist said.The dive acquired actual affair in Washington and Brussels amidst the accumulative worries over the altitude for abandon of announcement in Turkey. EU amplification abettor Johannes Hahn said he was "extremely worried".
Zaman, carefully affiliated to Erdogan's arch-foe, the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, was ordered into administering by the cloister on the appeal of Istanbul prosecutors, the state-run Anatolia account agency said.
Hundreds of supporters again aggregate alfresco its address apprehension the accession of bailiffs and aegis armament afterwards the cloister order.
"Democracy will abide and chargeless media will not be silent," Zaman's editor-in-chief Abdulhamit Bilici was quoted as adage by the Cihan account agency just afore the badge raid.
"I accept that chargeless media will abide even if we accept to address on the walls. I don't anticipate it is accessible to blackout media in the agenda age," he told Cihan, allotment of the Zaman media group.
'Series of adverse actions'
Shortly afore midnight (2200 GMT), a aggregation of badge accustomed with two Turkish-made TOMA baptize cannon trucks acclimated by the badge and exported to several countries.
They avant-garde aggressive appearance appear the cat-and-mouse supporters, battlefront the freezing baptize anon at them.
Using bolt-cutters to alleviate the adamant aboideau in foreground of the building, dozens of badge again marched into the bounds to appropriate the address and formally abode it beneath administration, blame abreast anyone who stood in their way, Cihan images showed.
Once the architecture was cleared, the court-appointed administrators -- attorneys Tahsin Kaplan and Metin Ilhan and biographer Sezai Sengonul -- were bussed central the circuitous to activate their work, Anatolia said.
The Cihan account agency and the Today's Zaman English accent circadian -- which are aswell allotment of the Feza Publications accumulation that owns Zaman --- and are aswell afflicted by the cloister order.
The United States, said the cloister adjustment it was "the latest in a alternation of adverse administrative and law administration accomplishments taken by the Turkish government targeting media outlets and others analytical of it."
"We appetite Turkish authorities to ensure their accomplishments advocate the accepted autonomous ethics anointed in their own constitution, including abandon of accent and abnormally abandon of the press," Accompaniment Department agent John Kirby said.
Hahn said he was "extremely worried" about the move "which jeopardises progress" fabricated by Turkey in added areas.
He warned on Twitter that Turkey, which is a abiding applicant to accompany the European Union, needs to "respect the abandon of the media" and rights were "not negotiable".
'Just afore EU summit'
Gulen has been based in the United States back 1999 if he fled accuse adjoin him laid by the above civil authorities.
Despite active alfresco of Turkey, Gulen congenital up huge access in the country through allies in the badge and judiciary, media and banking interests and a all-inclusive arrangement of abstraction schools.
Ankara now accuses Gulen of active what it calls the Fethullahaci Terror Organisation/Parallel Accompaniment Structure (FeTO/PDY) and gluttonous to abolish the accepted Turkish authorities.
Anatolia said the cloister adjustment was issued on the area that Zaman accurate the activities of this "terror organisation".
There accept been abundant acknowledged crackdowns on structures affiliated to the accumulation and on Friday Turkish badge arrested four admiral of one of the country's better conglomerates, accusing them of costs Gulen.
Gulen supporters abuse the accusations as ridiculous, adage all he leads is a added breezy accumulation accepted as Hizmet (Service).
The able access of the bi-weekly by the accompaniment added to apropos over abandon of announcement in Turkey beneath Erdogan's rule.
The circadian Cumhuriyet newspaper's editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara agency arch Erdem Gul were appear on an adjustment from Turkey's top cloister endure anniversary afterwards three months in bastille on accuse of publishing accompaniment secrets.
But they still face balloon on March 25.
Meanwhile about 2,000 journalists, bloggers and accustomed citizens, including top academy students, accept begin themselves prosecuted on accusations of calumniating Erdogan.
Independent pro-Kurdish television approach IMV TV was taken off air in Turkey endure weekend afterward accusations that it advertisement "terrorist propaganda" for militants.
The arrest on Zaman comes as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu active to Brussels Monday for a acute acme affair with EU leaders. The account of the cloister accommodation bankrupt as Erdogan was captivation talks in Istanbul with EU President Donald Tusk.
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