Show Trials on the Bosphorus
Posted by Dexter Filkins
Two years ago, when I started investigating the sprawling prosecution of Turkey’s military and political leaders—known as the Ergenekon case—someone pointed me to Emin Şirin. At the time, more than seven hundred people from across Turkish society, from military officers to academics, journalists, and aid workers, had been charged with, among other things, attempting to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Şirin’s story, I was told, was emblematic of the Ergenekon prosecutions, in that it relied on obviously trumped-up evidence.
More:Show Trials on the Bosphorus : The New Yorker
