Oh Oh
Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Jenny White
Excerpt from news article (click here for full text):
The Justice Ministry has opened 472 investigations into media outlets in the past three months over alleged violations of the confidentiality of the Ergenekon case, Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin revealed…
The minister said in his statement that state prosecutors had the authority to launch probes into these instances and had done so, adding: “We have issued an internal memo to the Istanbul Police Department and ordered them to pursue any violations by media organs of the confidentiality of the Ergenekon case and denounce them to the offices of the state prosecutors. As part of this, 472 probes were launched in the first three months of 2008.”
Hmm, perhaps investigations for public servants and political appointees who leak this stuff in the first place would have been more appropriate. I don’t understand how they get away with this ‘wink wink leak leak’ policy followed by blaming the press.
I’d rather see the manpower used give people who’re kept under arrest their day in court. This use of long pre-trial detentions as a tool for punishment is unprecented. Even during the worst times under martial law in the past, we’d have seen the prosecutor’s case w/o this much delay.