In the Turkish government party, the AKP, encourages resistance against the withdrawal of the work permit of several German journalists. The decision of the information office in Ankara, “is detrimental to the Reputation of Turkey and therefore can not be in the interest of Turkey,” declared the AKP Deputy Mustafa Yeneroglu on Saturday. He indicated that the decision could be revised. The information office had withdrawn on Friday, the daily mirror correspondent Thomas Seibert and the ZDF Bureau chief in Istanbul, Joerg Brase, the accreditations. On Saturday it was announced that the German TV journalist Halil Gülbeyaz, may not work in Turkey.
How to Gülbeyaz, announced that he received as Seibert and Brase an E-Mail to the information office with the rejection of his application for Re-accreditation for the year 2019. As in the other two cases, the authorities also called for Gülbeyaz, no reasons for the rejection. Gülbeyaz is accredited for twelve years for the NDR television in Turkey as a Journalist. He has residences in Istanbul and Berlin and is currently in the Federal capital.
Yeneroglu said he could not explain “how the competent authority has come to such a decision. Anyway, I can understand the decision, nor approve of.“ Journalists could work in Turkey, “free”, he added.
The AKP politicians also pointed to the possible consequences for the Turkish economy. “We can’t advertise on the other side so intense for the economic region of Turkey with your very delightful prospects, if, on the other hand, these incomprehensible decisions with wide scope of authority to be taken.”
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The withdrawal of accreditation “must be conveyed in each case concretely and convincingly, just as in any other legal state”, underlined. He said, “the decision declared either extremely convincing, or if arguments are missing, soon to be corrected”.
a Total of dozens of foreign correspondents are still waiting for their work permits, including the correspondent of the “süddeutsche Zeitung” and the British BBC. Foreign journalists in Turkey have animals every year re-accredited.
In individual cases, there had been in the past years already several times problems with the accreditation of foreign journalists in Turkey. The rejection of several correspondents, and the delay of the accreditation process for several dozen journalists, however, is new.
The responsibility for accreditation was transferred last year in the Wake of the introduction of the presidential system in Turkey from the now defunct Prime Minister’s office to the office of the President. The new chief of the information office, Fahrettin Altun, has not spoken yet to the withdrawal of the accreditation. Requests from European diplomats in Ankara has left Altun, so far, unanswered.
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