Mehmet Selim Kiraz

Turkey's Press Council has said "journalists are not terrorists," sternly criticizing the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's allegations of "propagandizing on behalf of terrorist organizations" against 18 journalists from nine separate Turkish dailies.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has prepared an indictment against 18 journalists who are accused of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization," asking the court to jail them for up to 7.5 years each. 

Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has prepared an indictment against 18 journalists who are accused of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization," asking the court to jail them for up to 7.5 years. 

An investigation was launched May 28 into social media posts made by a number of prominent media figures during the March 31 hostage crisis in Istanbul?s Ça?layan courthouse, Al Jazeera Türk has reported.

Daily Hürriyet has published an editorial, addressing the continued criticism of Turkish President Erdo?an and Prime Minister Davuto?lu for its recent publications about the death sentence meted out to Egypt?s former elected president and the March 31 killing of Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz.

The German government says it has banned a leftist-terrorist newspaper published by Turkey's outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and conducted raids across Germany in connection with the ban.

After Public Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who was investigating the controversial death of a young Gezi protest victim at the hands of the police, was killed by two members of an illegal and dubious leftist organization called the Revolutionary People?s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the whole thing turned against the media and the opposition in Turkey.

A criminal complaint has been filed against 27 prominent figures, including main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, journalists and celebrities, for comments made on social media about the police operation to end the March 31 hostage crisis at Istanbul's Ça?layan Courthouse, which ended with the death of a prosecutor and his two captors. 

Bans on social media networks are ?not appropriate? according to basic democratic standards, said European Parliament President Martin Schulz, who held meetings with a number of senior officials in Turkey, adding that he expected ?meaningful answers? from Ankara on the issue.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an devoted his latest verbal attack to opposition lawmakers and media organizations, accusing them of treason for being the ?partners of the terrorists? who were involved in the killing of Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz last week.