Blog: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 24, 2019

RSF Turkey representative in court
Erol Önderoğlu, the Turkey representative for the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was in court in Istanbul on February 25 alongside Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a columnist for the leftist daily Evrensel and president of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, and Ahmet Nesin, a writer and a columnist for the news website Artı Gerçek, for an ongoing trial over their participation in a solidarity campaign with the daily Özgür Gündem, the independent news website Bianet reported.