ANKARA - The Global Network for Independent Media (IPI) has listed the pressures and penalties against journalists in the past week on its official Twitter account.

Press freedom advocate Global Network for Independent Media (IPI) published a 7-item Twitter flood on its official Twitter account to draw attention to the violations of rights, repression, detention and arrests against journalists in Turkey. In the tweet series, which also includes news links on the subject, Abdurrahman Gök, who photographed the shooting of university student Kemal Kurkut by the police at the 2017 Diyarbakır Newroz, and was approved by the court of appeal, was sentenced to 1 year, 6 months and 22 days in prison for "propagandising a terrorist organization". .

Here is IPI's thread of tweets:

1- The court of appeal upheld the prison sentence of journalist Abdurrahman Gök, who photographed the murder of Kurdish student #KemalKurkut by the police during the 2017 Newroz celebrations in #Diyarbakır.

2- 10 people related to the shooting and murder of journalist Güngör Arslan, owner of Ses Kocaeli news website, were given various sentences, one of which was life imprisonment, and 4 people were acquitted.

3- The UK-based writer and editor Gökhan Yavuzel was detained at the airport on Sunday because he signed the Peace Declaration in 2016 and an arrest warrant was issued for him on the grounds that he insulted President Erdoğan.

4- Sezgin Kartal, who was taken into custody on January 10 Working Journalists' Day, was arrested today on terrorism charges by the court, There was a confidentiality order on his file.

5- Ender İmrek from Evrensel Newspaper and journalists Sena Dolar and Enes Sezgin, who were detained while following a protest in 2021, were acquitted of the charge of "insulting the President".

6- Broadcasting editor RTÜK imposed a second fine on Halktv for sarcastically criticizing the sentence given to Halktv for "praising terrorism with facial expressions".

7- A court in Istanbul ruled that the intervention of the police against AFP reporter Bülent Kılıç in the 2021 Pride Parade was disproportionate and ordered Kılıç to be paid 30,095 TL.

IPI included the hashtag #FreeTurkeyJournalists in every Tweet.