Deniz Yücel

Deniz Yücel
Deniz Yücel in 2014
Born (1973-09-10) 10 September 1973
Flörsheim am Main, West Germany
Nationality German and Turkish
Occupation Journalist

Deniz Yücel (Turkish pronunciation: [deˈniz jyˈdʒæl]; born 10 September 1973 in Flörsheim am Main, Germany) is a German-Turkish journalist and publisher. He has been a contributor to several German publications, most notably Die Tageszeitung and Die Welt.

Espionage accusations and imprisonment

The Turkish government repeatedly accused Yücel of espionage on behalf of Germany's federal intelligence agency, BND, to support the alleged terrorist organizations FETÖ and PKK. The government further claimed that Yücel aided the two groups to incite violence in Turkey.[1] In a speech in 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that "[Yücel] is a spy, not a journalist".[2]

On 14 February 2017, Yücel was formally indicted by a Turkish court and imprisoned for espionage.[3] His incarceration was widely criticized by journalists, politicians and the German public.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Sigmar Gabriel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, immediately summoned the Turkish ambassador to the Federal Foreign Office to protest Yücel's sentence.[11] On 16 February 2018, after more than a year of imprisonment, Yücel was released.[12]

Yücel received strong public support in Germany during his imprisonment. The Twitter hashtag #FreeDeniz has been active and popular. The German newspaper Die Welt, where Yücel is a correspondent, had offered to forward letters of support to the journalist. It also published Yücel's prison address in Turkey and suggested that letters written in Turkish could be sent directly to the journalist's prison cell.

Works

  • Taksim ist überall. Die Gezi-Bewegung und die Zukunft der Türkei. 2014, ISBN 978-3-89401-791-0.
  • Und morgen die ganze Türkei. Der lange Aufstieg des Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in: Kursbuch 188, 27 November 2016 (excerpts here).
  • Wir sind ja nicht zum Spaß hier. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96054-073-1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Erdoğan: Deniz Yücel PKK'nın temsilcisi olarak konsoloslukta saklandı". T24. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  2. ↑ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "Erdoğan: "Deniz Yücel ist ein deutscher Agent"". Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  3. ↑ "WELT-Korrespondent Deniz Yücel in der Türkei im Polizeigewahrsam - WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  4. ↑ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "SPIEGEL und SPIEGEL ONLINE: Wir fordern Freiheit für Deniz Yücel und alle in der Türkei inhaftierten Journalisten - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politik". SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  5. ↑ Shaheen, Kareem (2017-02-28). "'Assault on freedom of expression': Die Welt journalist's arrest in Turkey condemned". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  6. ↑ Adu, Aletha (2017-03-01). "Merkel BLASTS president Erdogan's 'bitter and disappointing' regime for journalist arrest". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  7. ↑ "Turkey orders German newspaper journalist jailed until trial". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  8. ↑ Oltermann, Philip (2017-03-01). "Angela Merkel urged to ban Erdoğan over jailed German journalist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  9. ↑ Reuters (2017-02-27). "Journalist for German newspaper arrested in Turkey". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  10. ↑ "Konvoylar devam edecek: Deniz Yücel tutuklandı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  11. ↑ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "Bundesregierung im Fall Yücel: Protest ohne Trööt - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politik". SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  12. ↑ Germany, Die Welt, Berlin. "Deniz Yücel verlässt das Gefängnis und ist frei". welt.de. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
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