Read the mind, arrest the journalist

Everybody agrees that the initial headline written was grossly erroneous. The website manager of the paper noticed the problem in the headline written by a web editor and removed it in 55 seconds. 

However, even if it was corrected within 55 seconds, it resulted in the chief web editor of daily Cumhuriyet, Oğuz Güven, being arrested. 

The headline was about the traffic death of a prosecutor who prepared the first anti-Fethullahist indictment.

The first tweet and the website headline was "Truck slices Prosecutor Mustafa Alper." 

Late prosecutor Mustafa Alper was the prosecutor who drafted the first indictment concerning the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) after the July 15 coup attempt. He adopted a firm stance against the putschists from the first moment, took immediate action and went to the Denizli Airport to start legal proceedings against putschist soldiers who wanted to fly military planes to join the attempt in Ankara. 

When Oğuz Güven gave his statement five days after he was detained on May 10, he said: "This headline was wrongly written. I told the editor to tweet it as 'his vehicle was sliced.' But Editor Birkan Erol made a mistake and tweeted, 'Prosecutor Mustafa Alper was sliced by a truck.' This mistake occurred due to the aim of posting the news as soon as possible considering the competition and speed factor demanded by the internet. Moreover, this tweet was removed in 55 seconds and the title on the webpage was corrected. This is the proof that the first title was a mistake." 

Güven repeated his sentence on May 15 in court, but his defense did not lead to any result; the judge arrested him. 

In the coming days, this arrest will be frequently referred to in debates about freedom...