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On 30 July 2012 an Istanbul court accepted a new indictment against Şık, charging him with threatening and defaming civil servants for their duties.<ref name="bianet30.07.2012">{{cite news |title=Journalist Ahmet Şık Facing More Charges in Wake of his Release |author=30 July 2012 |url=http://www.bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/140026-journalist-ahmet-sik-facing-more-charges-in-wake-of-his-release |publisher=[[Bianet]] |date=30 July 2012 |accessdate=2 August 2012}}</ref> The charges, for which the prosecutor is seeking a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment, are based on a declaration Şık gave to the press immediately upon his release from |
On 30 July 2012 an Istanbul court accepted a new indictment against Şık, charging him with threatening and defaming civil servants for their duties.<ref name="bianet30.07.2012">{{cite news |title=Journalist Ahmet Şık Facing More Charges in Wake of his Release |author=30 July 2012 |url=http://www.bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/140026-journalist-ahmet-sik-facing-more-charges-in-wake-of-his-release |publisher=[[Bianet]] |date=30 July 2012 |accessdate=2 August 2012}}</ref> The charges, for which the prosecutor is seeking a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment, are based on a declaration Şık gave to the press immediately upon his release from Silivri prison, in which he stated, "The police, prosecutors and judges who plotted and executed this conspiracy will enter this prison."<ref name="bianet30.07.2012"/> |
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Revision as of 05:41, 11 December 2013
Ahmet Şık (IPA: [ähme̞t̪ ʃɯk]; b. 1970, Adana) is a Turkish investigative journalist, author of several books and a trade unionist.[1] His book The Imam's Army led to his detention for a year in 2011-2012, and the book seized and banned. He remains under indictment in the Odatv case of the Ergenekon trials; his cause has been taken up by English PEN.[2]
Career
He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty for Communication, department Journalism.
Between 1991-2007 he worked for several newspapers such as Cumhuriyet, Radikal, Evrensel and Yeni Yüzyıl. He has also worked at Nokta magazine and Reuters News Agency as a photo journalist. He turned to academic work, when he was dismissed for his trade unionist activities.[1] In 1998 he was hospitalised "after a pro-police mob, furious about a murder conviction against several cops in a torture case, attacked the victim’s lawyers, the prosecutor, and journalists. In 2009, he fled the country for a year, fearing officials who had been targets of his reporting."[3]
Ahmet Şık is a member of the Turkish Journalists' Union (tr: Türkiye Gazeteciler Sendikası TGS) and the Association of Contemporary Journalists (tr: Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği ÇGD). In dailies, weeklies and monthlies he had published on human rights, journalism and professional ethics.[1]
Legal charges
Nokta
On 2 April 2008 Lale Sarıiibrahimoğlu (columnist in the daily Today's Zaman) and Ahmet Şık were acquitted of charges of insulting the military under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which penalizes the denigration of “Turkishness” or the Turkish army. Bakırköy 2nd Court of First Instance in İstanbul ruled that the article titled, “The military should withdraw its hand from internal security,” in the Feb. 8, 2007 edition of weekly Nokta should be evaluated as “harsh criticism” and not a criminal offence.[4]
Kırk katır, kırk satır
In June 2010, after the publication of Kırk katır, kırk satır, Şık and his co-author Ertuğrul Mavioğlu were indicted on charges of "breaching confidentiality of the documents" relating to the Ergenekon trials, with the prosecutor requesting a term of 4 years and 6 months.[5] The authors were eventually acquitted in May 2011.[6]
The Imam's Army
The Imam's Army (Turkish: İmamın Ordusu) is a book by Şık on the life and work of Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen movement. Şık was detained in March 2011, before the book was published, and the draft book was seized by the government and banned. Şık was detained pending trial, being eventually released pending trial in March 2012. In the interim, in an act of anti-censorship defiance, a version of the book was released in November 2011 under the name 000Kitap (000Book), edited by 125 journalists, activists and academics, and published by Postacı Publishing House.[7]
The Imam's Army release comments
On 30 July 2012 an Istanbul court accepted a new indictment against Şık, charging him with threatening and defaming civil servants for their duties.[8] The charges, for which the prosecutor is seeking a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment, are based on a declaration Şık gave to the press immediately upon his release from Silivri prison, in which he stated, "The police, prosecutors and judges who plotted and executed this conspiracy will enter this prison."[8]
Books
- Together with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu the book ″40 mules, 40 cleavers″ (Kırk katır, kırk satır), consisting of two volumes
- Ergenekon’da Kim Kimdir? (Who is who in Ergenekon) 2010. ISBN 978-605-375-037-6
- Kontrgerilla ve Ergenekon’u Anlama Kılavuzu (Guide to understand the contra-guerrilla and Ergenekon) 2010. ISBN 978-605-375-031-4
- Draft: ″The Army of the Imam″ (İmamın Ordusu)
Awards
- Bülent Dikmener Haber Ödülü (en: Bülent Dikmenler News Award) (1994)[1]
- Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti Fotoğraf Ödülü (en: Photography Award of the Turkish Journalists' Association) (1995)[1]
- Metin Göktepe Gazetecilik Ödülü (Metin Göktepe Journalism Award) (2001-2002-2007)[1]
- In 2001 for the best article in the printed press for the article "The underground killers" (tr: Yeraltındaki Katiller)
- In 2002 special award from the jury for the article "Back to Reality" (tr: Gerçeğe Dönüş)
- In 2007 special award from the jury for the article "There are two kinds of journalists: Opponents of the Turkish Armed Forces TSK and followers of the TSK" (tr: İki tür gazeteci vardır: TSK karşıtları, TSK yandaşları)[1]
- Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği Haber Ödülü (en: News Award from the Association of Contemporary Journalists) (2002-2003-2005)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Details on this website; accessed on 11 April 2011
- ^ English PEN, 14 March 2013, Turkey Focus 2013: Ahmet Şık
- ^ Stephen Franklin, 2 January 2013, Columbia Journalism Review, Where truth is a hard cell
- ^ Article Journalists Sarıibrahimoğlu and Şık acquitted from 301 case in Today's Zaman of 3 April 2008; accessed on 11 April 2011
- ^ 24.06.2010 Daily Human Rights Report
- ^ Radikal, 13 May 2011, Şık ve Mavioğlu'na beraat!
- ^ Hurriyet Daily News, 16 November 2011, Banned book goes on sale in Istanbul book fair
- ^ a b 30 July 2012 (30 July 2012). "Journalist Ahmet Şık Facing More Charges in Wake of his Release". Bianet. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
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