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Cartoonist Doğan Güzel Among Journalists Arrested In Turkey Press Purge — Update

Cartoonist Dogan Güzel among journalists arrested as Turkey closes newspaper

Cartoonist Dogan Güzel among journalists arrested as Turkey closes newspaper

UPDATE: Cartoonist Doğan Güzel was among the 22 journalists arrested at offices of the Istanbul-based newspaper Özgür Gündem who have been released from custody. In an interview following his release, Güzel told journalist Manuel Martorell of cuartopoder that anti-terrorist police arrived Tuesday intent on confiscating the newspaper’s computers and became violent when they realized they were being filmed. The journalists were then beaten and shoved down stairs. The beating, Güzel said, continued when he was in a police vehicle. “They insulted us shouting: ‘Armenians, Jews, sons of Lenin; you are going to find out about the strength of the Turkish state,'” Güzel recounted. The Özgür Gündem journalists, though released, face charges of “resistance, insult and assault to authority.”  Upon release a spokesperson for the journalists said: “We will continue our work . . . We will fight for a free press.”

Original post: Cartoonist Doğan Güzel was among the journalists arrested in the government raid on the Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem in Istanbul on Tuesday. Photos show the cartoonist in a torn shirt in police custody. In 1999, Doğan Güzel was the first recipient of CRNI’s Courage in Political Cartooning award. At that time, he had just spent a year in jail for “drawing a cartoon that called the state ‘weak,’ and for publishing his cartoons in the Kurdish language.” Cartoonists Rights joins Reporters Without Borders in condemning the closure of the newspaper and calls for the release of the journalists.

Cartoonists in Solidarity with Dogan Güzel Slideshow, click here.

Message from CRNI founder Robert Russell
We have recently come to know that our friend and former Courage in Editorial Cartooning award winner, Doğan Güzel, has been rounded up in a raid on his newspaper in Turkey.
 
We call on the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to quickly release our colleague Doğan Güzel, and all other journalists who are legally carrying out their professional duties in accordance with their constitutional rights. This kind of thing will happen in any country where the head of state is allowed to act as if they are more important than the constitution that they swore to protect. All of Turkey seems to be evolving into its own prison.
Robert Russell
Executive Director

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