Cetinkaya Continues Despite Court Fines
The Cumhuriyet (Republic) newspaper is republishing what Hikmet Cetinkaya wrote 10 years ago about M. Fethullah Gülen even though independent Turkish Courts ordered the pieces to be retracted. Cetinkaya wrote pieces entitled, 'Adventures of Fethullah Gülen', in his column, 'Journal of Politics'. The Cumhuriyet has issued the articles as news articles.
Ordered to issue a disclaimer for the articles, Cetinkaya and the Cumhuriyet newspaper were fined by many court verdicts concerning articles published in 1993, 1994 and 1995. The verdicts concluded that Cetinkaya's articles were not news items but slandering of personal rights. The Cumhuriyet issued, 'The Process of Organization in the Turkish Armed Forces' included in a series beginning on June 24, 1994. The 1994/490 E, 1995/91 K. verdict of the 4th Civil First Circuit Court presented on 01.03.1995, sentenced the Cumhuriyet newspaper for allegations against Gülen contained in the article.
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