Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation against T24 news website and journalist Seyhan Avşar. It is stated that the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation on the news article titled "Journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were killed in Syria" published on T24 and the virtual media post of Gerçek Gündem Editor-in-Chief Journalist Seyhan Avşar on the charges of "making illegal organization propaganda" and "publicly spreading misleading informaion". 

 

The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office claimed that the investigation was initiated "due to the words praising Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, members of the organization who have records against them due to their membership to the PKK organization, and also due to the determination that misleading information was disseminated that they were killed due to their so-called journalistic activities and journalist identities".

 

Seyhan Avşar had recorded the following in her virtual media post: "...Is it necessary for a person to share the same opinion as us, to adopt the same journalistic style as us in order to defend their rights? According to what and according to whom are we 'terrorists'? How quickly we adopt the marginalising discourses of others. Are we defending Sinan Ateş's rights today because we defend the same world view? Or what will we do when a journalist whose world view we have never adopted is murdered? Will we remain silent? Will our search for justice and our belief in truth change according to where people stand and the positions they hold? What a pity... Yesterday, two journalists who were born and raised in these lands were killed by UCAVs. We remained silent while they were being slaughtered, and the more we remained silent, the smaller we became..."