{"id":82532,"date":"2026-05-14T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82532\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:16:09","slug":"turkish-court-sentences-kurdish-journalist-to-more-than-4-years-for-allegedly-aiding-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82532\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish court sentences Kurdish journalist to more than 4 years for allegedly aiding terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Reyhan-Hacioglu.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Reyhan Hac\u0131og\u0306lu\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Reyhan-Hacioglu-696x435.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Reyhan-Hacioglu-696x435.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Reyhan Hac\u0131og\u0306lu\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court in the southeastern province of Van on Thursday sentenced Kurdish journalist Reyhan Hac\u0131o\u011flu to four years, two months in prison for allegedly aiding a terrorist organization, the Bianet news website <a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/gazeteci-reyhan-haciogluna-hapis-cezasi-hakikat-inancimiz-var-319613\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the final hearing on Thursday, prosecutors repeated their request for punishment on terrorism-related charges, while defense lawyer Resul Temur told the court that the case file contained no evidence of criminal conduct and said Hac\u0131o\u011flu was effectively being prosecuted for her journalism.<\/p>\n<p>In Turkey the charge of \u201caiding a terrorist organization\u201d is commonly used in cases linked to the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which Turkey and its Western allies designate as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>After the ruling, Hac\u0131o\u011flu defended her work in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">Bug\u00fcn bir s\u00fcre de tutuklu kald\u0131\u011f\u0131m dosyadan 4 y\u0131l 2 ay hapis cezas\u0131 verildi. Mahkemede de s\u00f6yledim yine diyeyim; yapt\u0131\u011f\u0131m her haberin, s\u00f6yledi\u011fim her s\u00f6z\u00fcn arkas\u0131nday\u0131m. Hakikati verilen cezalar ile \u00f6rtemezsiniz. <\/p>\n<p>Gazetecilik su\u00e7 de\u011fil; bu \u00fclkeyi, bu halklar\u0131 birbirine d\u00fc\u015fman\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6RbDV3RMZ6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/6RbDV3RMZ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reyhan Hac\u0131o\u011flu (@RozaViyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RozaViyan\/status\/2054833816913555637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand behind every news story I have written and every word I have spoken,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYou cannot cover up the truth with sentences. Journalism is not a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to court reports from earlier hearings, prosecutors used Hac\u0131o\u011flu\u2019s television broadcasts, interviews and contacts with news sources as evidence against her. The indictment focused in part on episodes of a political talk program she hosted on Medya Haber, a Kurdish-language satellite channel frequently accused by Turkish authorities of links to the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors cited discussions on Kurdish politics, prison conditions, hunger strikes and the arrest of journalists as evidence of alleged support for the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>Hac\u0131o\u011flu has worked for Kurdish-focused media outlets, including the now-closed \u00d6zg\u00fcr G\u00fcndem and \u00d6zg\u00fcrl\u00fck\u00e7\u00fc Demokrasi newspapers. Turkish authorities shut down both outlets as part of broader crackdowns on Kurdish and opposition media, accusing them of links to the PKK, which has waged an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>She was detained January 17, 2025, during a police raid on her home as part of an Istanbul-based investigation and was jailed three days later on charges of membership in a terrorist organization before being released pending trial in June.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has long drawn criticism from international rights groups over its use of broadly worded counterterrorism legislation against journalists, political activists, lawyers and Kurdish politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch said in its 2025 report on Turkey that journalists \u201cregularly face prosecution\u201d under the country\u2019s anti-terror legislation and that Kurdish journalists are \u201cdisproportionately targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court in the southeastern province of Van on Thursday sentenced Kurdish journalist Reyhan Hac\u0131o\u011flu to four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,425,426,312,427,428,429,2263,43964,43965,431,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-82532","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-democracy","11":"tag-erdogan","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-justice","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-oppression","16":"tag-pkk","17":"tag-resul-temur","18":"tag-reyhan-hacioglu","19":"tag-rule-of-law","20":"tag-stockholm","21":"tag-sweden","22":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116573594413608247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82532","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=82532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}