From \u00c7etinkaya\u2019s perspective after the events of July\n15 according to Die Welt\u2019s story begins with the following statements:\nFollowing the military coup in July 2016, more than 300 members of the press\nwere among those victims, most of whom were the victims of cleaning waves\nwithout adequate investigations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Interview that he gave Die Welt;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuncer Cetinkaya, along with other victims was\ntortured in Turkey sued Turkish state in Karlsruhe German Federal Prosecutor’s\nOffice. Crimes committed against\nhumanity, such as torture, under universal jurisdiction, may be the subject of\njurisdiction, even if not committed in Germany. \nCetinkaya, British record holder football champion Manchester United\u2019s logo\ndressed in dark fleece. He’s got a\npicture of him sitting in a prison bed. His hair was short, he lost more than\n30 pounds in prison. Today his combed\nbackwards hair ,went white, looks thicker. It is hard to believe that\n\u00c7etinkaya, sitting in the empty kitchen in West Germany, is the man in the\nphotograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n List was published while jets\nwere still on board<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00c7etinkaya had been working as a journalist for 26\nyears when he was arrested. For a long time, he worked for Zaman, the most\ncirculating newspaper in the country. When the alliance between Erdogan and the\nMovement ended, the newspaper came to the fore with its dissident publications.\nIn 2016, a trustee was appointed to the newspaper. On the night of the coup, Cetinkaya wrote\n\u201cDamn the coup d’\u00e9tat\u201d. During the February 28 process, he had criticized the\ncoup in a book. He does not accept the military coup as a legitimate way of\noverthrowing governments. However, while the jets are still in the air in\nIstanbul and Ankara, they see their name on a tagging list released from a\nTwitter account which was close to the government. \u201cList of journalists to be\narrested\u201d he wrote.\u2026 On June 23, \u00c7etinkaya was arrested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Torture Centers<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first days in prison are among the worst. This is\nwhat \u00c7etinkaya describes; like so many other inmates. In a report, the UN\nSpecial Rapporteur on Torture mentions cases of \u201cfoot-whipping, beatings,\nthreats and rape with various objects inde in Turkish prisons.\u201d Especially in\nthe first few days after the coup, the police used these methods in temporary\ncenters. In a short time, \u00c7etinkaya was being transferred to prisons in three\ndifferent cities. Aksaray, Nevsehir and Antalya. He wasn\u2019t allowed to be\nvisited by his family and his lawyer. It is not known which crimes were held\nagainst him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Even sitting somewhere was impossible<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We were in a 5-square-meter cell with 20 people. We\ncouldn’t even sit down, he remembers. \u201cThey took some inmates one by one,\nblindfolded them, took them to the roof of the building and threatened to throw\nthem down.\u201d Officers were torturing them\nto take statements and to confess to other opponents. This method is applied\nall over the country. Numerous human rights organizations report to the UN and\nDie Welt reports how torture was carried out systematically after the coup. \u00c7etinkaya\nwas quiet. He states that he is a journalist and cannot legally investigate who\nwas carrying out the coup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Price of being an opponent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Abdullah Bozkurt is an old colleague of Tuncer\n\u00c7etinkaya. Bozkurt who is in exile in Sweden and during a meeting with Die\nWelt, he says: \u201cTuncer is an important\njournalist. He never hesitated to criticize the powerful and the government,\nand he never stepped back from bringing it to the judiciary if he found documents\nof their illegal affairs. He pays for being an opponent. \u201d Cetinkaya had high\nblood pressure and kidney disease when he went to prison. No medication was\ngiven at first. Then he was able to take his medication irregularly. The guards\noften gave him drugs that he did not know what had happened. Her health was\ngetting worse every day. His kidney has lost its function. The doctor’s reports\nfrom the Die Welt newspaper show this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He thought he\nwas going to die in prison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prison\nauthorities ignored her pain. All those years he believed in the country, the\nstate of law, the Republic. Yet he understands; none of them has any value. The\njournalist thought he might die in prison for the first time. Cetinkaya,\n“the worst was psychological torture,” he says. Isolation, insults\nand threats. Feeling of being forgotten. Even today, \u00c7etinkaya suffers from\ntheir consequences. He is receiving psychiatric treatment in Germany, feeling\nanxious and depressed. A doctor in our report points to torture in prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How will you bring his health\nback?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The journalist lives apart from his family and expects\nto bring his wife and children to Germany as part of a family reunion. They are\nout of Turkey for security reasons. \u00c7etinkaya’s family is concerned about their\nfreedom in their homeland. After imprisonment, her daughter Rahime Gul wrote an\nemotional letter to international media outlets: A call for help. \u201cMy father is\ninnocent and will be proved in court. But how will you bring my father’s health\nback? He should not stay in prison any longer.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wave if foam comes out..<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When \u00c7etinkaya had hernia in prison, he waited for\nhelp for days. He was not allowed to see a doctor. Guardian once mocked \u201cIf the foam comes out\nof your mouth, we’ll take it to the doctor, wave to the camera\u201d. Then one day\nhe was suddenly taken to the hospital. Without any information\u2026 The family does\nnot have any information about the operation. \nThe handcuffs were removed only on the operating table just to let\ndoctors and nurses to make their jobs more comfortable … Soldiers accompanied\nthe operating room. When he woke up, he was wearing a bloody surgical gown.\nThen he found himself on the floor of a hospital’s extremely cold room reserved\nfor prisoners. He couldn’t move. He had to go crawling to the toilet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe\nleft me to die\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cetinkaya does not believe that the operation was\nperformed to help him. He thinks the surgery was done to weaken him. They didn\u2019t want to kill me, they leftme to\ndie, he adds. This would not be the first death in prison. A report from the\nJournalists and Writers Foundation reports 61 suspected deaths in Turkish\nprisons after 2016. He doesn’t know why he was released at the end of 2018. So\nfar, the court has not been concluded. But he predicts he can be re-arrested at\nany time. He doesn’t believe he’il get out of prison if he does. So he decides\nto escape. He doesn’t want to give details about it. At that time, Turkish\nmedia reported that he was dead. In February 2019, they report that he is here,\neven though he is not in Germany <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne\nday justice will be brought\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n News scares \u00c7etinkaya. He knows that President Erdo\u011fan\nhas fanatical supporters in Germany and that they are targeting opponents. As\npreviously Die Welt wrote, the Turkish Intelligence brought at least 31\ndissidents living abroad back to Turkey after the coup with the operation. For\nthis reason, \u00c7etinkaya, along with the Human Rights Defenders Association and\nfour tortured persons, filed a lawsuit against the Turkish government at the\nFederal Prosecutor’s Office within the framework of torture and crimes against\nhumanity. \u00c7etinkaya says that I live with hope and adds: \u201cOne day justice will\nbe brought\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journalist Tuncer \u00c7etinkaya spoke to the German newspaper Die Welt: \u201cI was humiliated in prison, tortured. There were only two things that kept me alive: my faith and my family\u2026 \u201d He worked as a journalist in Istanbul for many years. and lastly were the director of Anadolu Agency in Antalya, Tuncer \u00c7etinkaya, gave an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jf_save_progress":"","_jf_limit_responses":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":{"post_split":[{"template":"1","tag":"h2","numbering":"asc","mode":"normal"}]},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4601,1],"tags":[3963,3247],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-uncategorized","tag-die-welt-en","tag-tuncer-cetinkaya-en"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.internationaljournalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tuncer-cetinkaya-1-1024x678.jpg\")
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