>Turkish Cypriot authorities have launched an investigation against Ali Kişmir, the chairman of the Press Trade Union (Basın-Sen), on charges of “insulting and defaming the security forces,” demanding up to a ten-year prison sentence, the journalist announced on Twitter on Feb. 22.
>*The lawsuit concerns one of Kişmir’s articles penned at the time of Ersin Tatar’s election as the president. Kişmir criticized the Turkish government and its interference in the affairs of Turkish Cyprus in the article. He said that politicians from Ankara had met with National Unity Party (UBP) deputies at a place called “White House” [Beyaz Ev].*
>The name of the place to where Ankara summoned some of the UBP politicians might be ‘White House,’ but the place that our politics brought the issue is in fact a ‘Whore House’! Ankara does not want to lose its dominance in the island’s north, its existence to be questioned and Turkish Cypriots to stand on their own feet,” the article read.
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Wasn’t sure who he was, [here’s an english source](https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-cypriot-journalist-ali-kismir-faces-10-years-in-jail-over-article-criticizing-ankara-news-60458) and some background for others:
>Turkish Cypriot authorities have launched an investigation against Ali Kişmir, the chairman of the Press Trade Union (Basın-Sen), on charges of “insulting and defaming the security forces,” demanding up to a ten-year prison sentence, the journalist announced on Twitter on Feb. 22.
>*The lawsuit concerns one of Kişmir’s articles penned at the time of Ersin Tatar’s election as the president. Kişmir criticized the Turkish government and its interference in the affairs of Turkish Cyprus in the article. He said that politicians from Ankara had met with National Unity Party (UBP) deputies at a place called “White House” [Beyaz Ev].*
>The name of the place to where Ankara summoned some of the UBP politicians might be ‘White House,’ but the place that our politics brought the issue is in fact a ‘Whore House’! Ankara does not want to lose its dominance in the island’s north, its existence to be questioned and Turkish Cypriots to stand on their own feet,” the article read.