{"id":22138,"date":"2026-02-23T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:17:40","slug":"lawyer-slams-scandalous-indictment-concerning-turkish-reporters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22138\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer slams \u2018scandalous\u2019 indictment concerning Turkish reporter\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hakan-Tosun-protesto.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Hakan Tosun - protesto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hakan-Tosun-protesto-696x522.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hakan-Tosun-protesto-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Hakan Tosun - protesto\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors want to charge two suspects with manslaughter rather than murder over the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishminute.com\/2025\/10\/14\/turkish-environmental-journalist-dies-after-brutal-attack-in-istanbul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a>\u00a0of a Turkish journalist known for his environmental reporting, in a move the family\u2019s lawyer slammed as \u201cscandalous, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hakan Tosun, 50, was found unconscious after being assaulted as he walked home through the streets of Istanbul in mid-October. He was rushed to a hospital but died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage showed him being attacked by two men, aged 18 and 24, who were later arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHakan Tosun was deliberately killed. However, in the prosecutor\u2019s draft indictment, his death was evaluated as manslaughter without intent to kill \u2014 namely, a crime of intentional injury resulting in death,\u201d lawyer Cemal Y\u00fccel told reporters in \u0130stanbul on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>New forensic evidence<a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishminute.com\/2026\/01\/08\/autopsy-confirms-violent-head-trauma-in-death-of-turkish-environmental-journalist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0Tosun died of a brain hemorrhage due to head trauma caused by blows with a blunt object that caused fractures to the skull bones and the face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder these circumstances, there is clearly an intent to kill. We do not accept this draft indictment. We hope the court will not approve this scandalous document,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the family and their legal team said forensic evidence showed he was beaten to death in a \u201cprolonged and horrific act of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tosun was known for his coverage and documentary work focusing on the struggle to protect the environment, urban activism and the fight against gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists have called for a full and independent investigation into his death.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer said the journalist\u2019s work \u201cmust have disturbed certain individuals,\u201d adding that they had repeatedly urged prosecutors to investigate whether anyone had ordered or encouraged the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have filed multiple requests with the prosecutor\u2019s office to identify any instigators and to review the suspects\u2019 call records,\u201d Y\u00fccel said.<\/p>\n<p>But they failed to respond to any of those requests, he said, accusing them of preparing an indictment that sided with the perpetrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors want to charge two suspects with manslaughter rather than murder over the\u00a0death\u00a0of a Turkish journalist known for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[14903,13063,14904,2358,2033,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-22138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-environmental-reporting","9":"tag-hakan-tosun","10":"tag-manslaughter","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-press-freedom","13":"tag-stockholm","14":"tag-sweden","15":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}