{"id":24476,"date":"2026-02-25T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/24476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:13:38","slug":"german-politicians-condemn-arrest-of-dw-journalist-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/24476\/","title":{"rendered":"German politicians condemn arrest of DW journalist in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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German lawmakers from the governing coalition and opposition parties called for the immediate release of Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish service reporter Alican Uluda\u011f after his arrest in Turkey on charges of insulting the president and urged Berlin to consider diplomatic steps, DW Turkish service reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The case has prompted coordinated reactions in Germany, where officials and lawmakers are weighing possible diplomatic responses, including summoning Turkey\u2019s ambassador, as scrutiny grows over the treatment of journalists working for German public broadcasters in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Holger Mann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), a member of the German Parliament\u2019s Committee on Culture and Media, said Uluda\u011f should be released immediately. He said the use of legal measures against journalists and recent arrests were concerning.<\/p>\n

David Schliesing of the Left Party (Die Linke) also called for Uluda\u011f\u2019s release and said the German government should increase political pressure on Ankara. He said summoning the Turkish ambassador to the foreign ministry would be an appropriate step and added that Berlin should reassess its approach to issues including Turkey\u2019s European Union membership bid and arms deliveries.<\/p>\n

Omid Nouripour of the Green Party (B\u00fcndnis 90\/Die Gr\u00fcnen) said arresting a journalist for his work was unacceptable and urged the German government to take visible action if Uluda\u011f is not released. He said possible measures range from formal diplomatic d\u00e9marches to summoning the Turkish ambassador in Berlin. Nouripour also referred to the 2017 arrest of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Y\u00fccel, who was held in Turkey for nearly a year before being released.<\/p>\n

The German government last week said<\/a> journalists must be able to carry out their work without fear of pressure and that DW and its staff should be able to operate freely and report independently in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s culture and media minister, Wolfram Weimer, described Uluda\u011f\u2019s detention as unacceptable and called for his immediate release, saying journalism is not a crime.<\/p>\n

The \u0130stanbul Criminal Magistrate of Peace on February 20 ruled<\/a>\u00a0that 22 posts shared by Uluda\u011f on social media constituted repeated and public insults of President Erdo\u011fan. The court ordered Uluda\u011f\u2019s arrest citing flight risk, the possibility of destroying or concealing evidence and a strong suspicion of witness tampering.<\/p>\n

In Turkey thousands of people are investigated, prosecuted or convicted on charges of insulting the president on the basis of the controversial Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The crime carries up to four years in prison, a sentence that can be increased if the act was committed using mass media.<\/p>\n

Turkey, which has been suffering from a poor record of freedom of the press for years,\u00a0ranks\u00a0<\/a>159th\u00a0among 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2025 World Press Freedom Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German lawmakers from the governing coalition and opposition parties called for the immediate release of Deutsche Welle (DW)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,16138,16139,425,426,16140,427,428,16141,429,431,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-24476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ak-party","9":"tag-akp","10":"tag-alican-uludag","11":"tag-david-schliesing","12":"tag-democracy","13":"tag-erdogan","14":"tag-holger-mann","15":"tag-justice","16":"tag-law","17":"tag-omid-nouripour","18":"tag-oppression","19":"tag-rule-of-law","20":"tag-stockholm","21":"tag-sweden","22":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24476","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=24476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}