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One week after another, the Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on the case of several imprisoned journalists for months, some of whom are still imprisoned. She has given reason to some, and rejected the others.
With our correspondent in Istanbul , Anne Andlauer
Sentenced to life imprisonment, the famous journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak had put all their hopes in this last resort. Incarcerated in the purges that immediately followed the failed coup in July 2016, they were found guilty of "attempting to overthrow the constitutional order" for alleged links to preacher Fethullah Gülen, the brain designated putsch.
By a majority of its fifteen members, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the authorities had not violated their freedom.
Verdicts with variable geometry
The same day, however, the same judges found that the rights of their colleague Ali Bulaç, who had been incarcerated for nearly two years for the same reasons, had been violated. The day before, they had also confirmed two other reputable journalists, Murat Aksoy and Kadri Gürsel, but not four employees of the opposition daily Cumhuriyet , for their part dismissed.
These varying verdicts, which are also found in the lower courts, illustrate what the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) local representative, Erol Önderoglu, calls " the destruction of the Turkish judicial system ".
Influenced justice, disorganized, itself purged of nearly 4,000 of its members since the failed coup.