Is Hürriyet responsible for Ak?ener case?

The editor-in-chief of daily Hürriyet, Sedat Ergin, has responded to claims made by the Turkuvaz Media Group and the PM The editor-in-chief of daily Hürriyet, Sedat Ergin, has responded to claims made by the Turkuvaz Media Group and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu over the Meral Ak?ener controversy, in an article published on May 17.
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?We are facing a situation that we really cannot make sense of. A member of the Turkuvaz Media Group, daily Sabah, tried to accuse daily Hürriyet over the defamation scandal against Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy Meral Ak?ener, in a report headlined ?The tape leader?s freedom to blackmail.?

The May 16 piece, published alongside an image of Do?an Holding Honorary President Ayd?n Do?an, alleged that ?the ringleader of parallel Fethullah Gülen gave blackmail instructions from Pennsylvania, as Do?an?s media became the spokesman of flagrant defamations.?

According to this accusation, the Journalists and Writers Foundation, which is close to the Gülen movement, is behind the flagrant defamations against Ak?ener. This is intended to give message that ?in Ak?ener?s case you were supposed to attack the Gülen movement, not us.?

If truth be told, we do not know how to respond to this claim. But here are the facts we know;

A news station called A Haber is under the control of the Turkuvaz Media Group. During one of its programs on May 10, guest Latif Erdo?an made a claim that Ak?ener had an ?inappropriate? tape, upon a question from Cemil Barlas.

This defamation caused deep public indignation across Turkey and a great conscientious consensus was shaped in the reactions. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and First Lady...