site.btaJailed Turkish Journalists Get Symbolic Accreditation for EU-Turkey Summit in Varna
NW 17:10:01 23-03-2018
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Jailed Turkish Journalists Get Symbolic
Accreditation for EU-Turkey
Summit in Varna
Sofia, March 23 (BTA) - The Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) has issued symbolic accreditation badges to 95 jailed Turkish journalists for the EU-Turkey Summit in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna for March 26. The meeting is expected to bring together Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the Presidents of the Council and the Commission of the EU, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker. "Unfortunately, these 95 Turkish colleagues will not be able to attend the meeting and to do their job to ask questions and to hold the politicians accountable for their commitments, because they have been put behind bars," AEJ-Bulgaria said.
They urge Bulgarian and international journalists who will cover the meeting in Varna to take a symbolic badge with the name and picture of a Turkish colleague and to speak on their behalf.
"Our message to politicians is clear: Journalists are not terrorists and cannot be treated as such for their work. Even if you put critical journalists in jail, you will not stop hearing them - others will raise their voices. We will speak with their voice," says AEJ-Bulgaria.
The organization further urge Turkey to release immediately the journalists who have been detained for their work. "The European Union must not remain silent on this issue and has to put the fate of the detained journalists as a condition for any rapprochement with Ankara," the statement says. LN/ //
LN1708NW.116
116 - POLITICS - NEWS MEDIA - JOURNALISTS - TURKEY
Jailed Turkish Journalists Get Symbolic
Accreditation for EU-Turkey
Summit in Varna
Sofia, March 23 (BTA) - The Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) has issued symbolic accreditation badges to 95 jailed Turkish journalists for the EU-Turkey Summit in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna for March 26. The meeting is expected to bring together Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the Presidents of the Council and the Commission of the EU, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker. "Unfortunately, these 95 Turkish colleagues will not be able to attend the meeting and to do their job to ask questions and to hold the politicians accountable for their commitments, because they have been put behind bars," AEJ-Bulgaria said.
They urge Bulgarian and international journalists who will cover the meeting in Varna to take a symbolic badge with the name and picture of a Turkish colleague and to speak on their behalf.
"Our message to politicians is clear: Journalists are not terrorists and cannot be treated as such for their work. Even if you put critical journalists in jail, you will not stop hearing them - others will raise their voices. We will speak with their voice," says AEJ-Bulgaria.
The organization further urge Turkey to release immediately the journalists who have been detained for their work. "The European Union must not remain silent on this issue and has to put the fate of the detained journalists as a condition for any rapprochement with Ankara," the statement says. LN/ //
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