"Ergenekon’s ‘overseas friends’
Reading The Washington Post the other day, I came across a piece in the Letter to the Editor section that I assume had been mistakenly put there instead of the humor section.
“The chief prosecutor in [the Ergenekon] case has stated that the journalists were taken into custody based on solid evidence unrelated to their work as journalists. As in any free, democratic society, Turkey's legal system enshrines the cardinal principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ and due process is unequivocally and unsparingly accorded to all those accused in this case. The rule of law is a fundamental tenet of Turkish democracy. Turkey's judicial system is fully integrated into the European legal structures, and individuals tried under our system enjoy the right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights,” read the letter from Turkey’s ambassador to Washington, Namık Tan (“In journalists' detentions, Turkey is committed to rule of law,” The Washington Post, March 14, 2011)."
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