{"id":24642,"date":"2018-12-07T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24642"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:24:08","slug":"turkish-authorities-seek-arrest-of-journalist-dundar-over-2013-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24642","title":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities seek arrest of journalist Dundar over 2013 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1416956\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Can Dundar as part of an investigation into protests in Istanbul in 2013 against President Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s rule, state-run Anadolu agency said on Wednesday.<br \/>Prosecutors said he played an active role in the protests and provoked public unrest through social media.<br \/>They also said he supported members of a terrorist organization against the police, the news agency said.<br \/>It is not clear how the warrant can be served because Dundar has left the country.<br \/>Dundar, a former editor of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, was sentenced in 2016 to five years for publishing a video purporting to show Turkey\u2019s intelligence agency trucking weapons into Syria. He was released pending appeal and went abroad.<br \/>Hundreds of thousands of people marched in 2013 to protest a plan to build a replica of an Ottoman barracks on Gezi Park in the center of the city. The protests turned into a direct challenge to Erdogan\u2019s government.<br \/>\u201c#HepmizGezideydik We feel proud,\u201d Dundar wrote on his Twitter on Wednesday, sharing Anadolu\u2019s story about his arrest warrant. The hashtag translates to: \u201cWe were all at Gezi.\u201d<br \/>Two weeks ago 13 people were arrested as part of the Gezi investigation.<br \/>Erdogan says the protests were organized and financed by Osman Kavala, a businessman and rights activists. Kavala was detained more than a year ago in connection with the investigation.<br \/>He has not been charged over the protests and denies the claim against him.<br \/>The prosecutor also said Dundar was in contact with Kavala during the protests in a written arrest request to the court, Anadolu reported.<br \/>Aside from the investigation into the Gezi Park protests, authorities have detained tens of thousands of people they suspect in the wake of a coup attempt in 2016 of opposing Erdogan\u2019s government.<br \/>Turkey\u2019s Western allies have voiced concern over the crackdown on journalists, academics, rights activists and criticized Erdogan for using it to muzzle dissent and increase his own power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Can Dundar as part of an investigation into protests in Istanbul in 2013 against President Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s rule, state-run Anadolu agency said on Wednesday.Prosecutors said he played an active role in the protests and provoked public unrest through social media.They also said he supported members&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}