Baris Pehlivan

Baris Pehlivan, editor-in-chief of Odatv.com, is accused by the Turkish government of being involved in an allegedly wide-ranging anti-government conspiracy.

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Letter from Imprisoned Turkish Journalist Baris Pehlivan

By Baris Pehlivan

My dear colleagues, due to my activities as a journalist, I am unfortunately deprived unlawfully of freedom in my own country. I have been sitting in prison for 17 months without any final verdict. Journalism is a universal profession. Wherever a journalist is arrested and thrown into prison for doing his or her job, all of the world's journalists are under threat.