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Sazak: Akdoğan Restructured Milliyet

22.12.2014 18:44

Derya Sazak, editor-in-chief of the Yurt daily, said on Monday he stands by his statement that Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan headed an operation targeting the Milliyet daily. Sazak's words came in response to those of Akdoğan, who accused him of lying and slander following Sazak's initial statement published in an interview with the Bugün daily on Sunday. Sazak was fired from his job as editor-in-chief of Milliyet after he published documents concerning a meeting on İmralı Island between the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, and pro-Kurdish deputies in Parliament. The meetings were sanctioned by the government as part of the settlement process, launched to resolve the country's ongoing Kurdish issue. “Yalçın Akdoğan is lying. I stand by my words. After I published the İmralı documents, he not only rang me to threaten me but also put pressure on the Demirören family [owners of Milliyet],” Sazak said. Stating that Akdoğan restru

Derya Sazak, editor-in-chief of the Yurt daily, said on Monday he stands by his statement that Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan headed an operation targeting the Milliyet daily.

Sazak's words came in response to those of Akdoğan, who accused him of lying and slander following Sazak's initial statement published in an interview with the Bugün daily on Sunday.

Sazak was fired from his job as editor-in-chief of Milliyet after he published documents concerning a meeting on İmralı Island between the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, and pro-Kurdish deputies in Parliament. The meetings were sanctioned by the government as part of the settlement process, launched to resolve the country's ongoing Kurdish issue.

“Yalçın Akdoğan is lying. I stand by my words. After I published the İmralı documents, he not only rang me to threaten me but also put pressure on the Demirören family [owners of Milliyet],” Sazak said.

Stating that Akdoğan restructured the Milliyet daily by directing the owner to dismiss or demote journalists deemed unfavorable by the government Sazak said, “If you look at the newspapers the day after he rang me, his ‘You're sabotaging the [settlement] process' was in the headlines of the pro-government media.” “He's calling me a liar. I say he has no conscience.”

Sazak had said in the first interview with Bugün, published on Sunday: “We were all sent packing from our newspaper due to very strong provocation. [Deputy Prime Minister] Yalçın Akdoğan was amongst the head provocateurs. The operation against Milliyet was Akdoğan's doing.”

Sazak said before he started working for Milliyet, then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the paper's owner, Erdoğan Demirören, and told him to hire Akif Beki, a former Erdoğan aide. “He [Akif Beki] was to be brought to Milliyet as a commissar of the government,” Sazak said.

He claimed that Deputy Prime Minister Akdoğan as well as former government spokesperson Hüseyin Çelik had spurred the layoffs at Milliyet, and that then-Prime Minister Erdoğan had knowledge of the activities, too.

Akdoğan replied to the allegations made by the Yurt editor-in-chief by saying: “This is openly lying, slander and delirium. A person should not degrade himself this way.”

Akdoğan, who criticized Sazak via his social media account on Sunday, said on the same day that “Derya Sazak has said that I had a part in his departure from Milliyet.” Akdoğan wrote: “Those without any media ethics cannot talk about media freedoms. Those drifting between lying and fawning cannot be deemed real journalists.”

(Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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