Turkish Cypriot parties express their support for Turkish Cypriot journalist Sener Levent, who was sentenced in absentia in Turkey to 10 months in prison.
According to the Press and Information Office, Avroupa writes that Community Democracy Party (CDP) Chairwoman Minée Atli raised the issue of journalist Sener Levent's conviction in Ankara during a meeting in Paris with the Director General and Press Spokesperson of Reporters Without Borders Pauline Ades-Mevel.
In a post on social media, Atli said she discussed with the international organization's official the issue of the targeting of notable journalists, such as Sener Leved and Pinar Barut, pointing out that freedom of expression is restricted in the occupied territories and that the "rulers" encourage this.
Ms. Atli noted that they also discussed that in the Osman Kavala and Sener Levent cases in Turkey, the judiciary in the country has moved away from the concept of the rule of law and that the independence of the judiciary has never been as important as it is now for Turkish Cypriots.
According to Avroupa, the secretary of the New Cyprus Party (YKP), Khalil Karapasiaoglu, also commented on the conviction of the newspaper's editor Sener Levent by a court in Turkey, noting that "neither in the courts of the colony do we accept to be tried for speaking out against the Turkish occupation, nor in the courts of the colonizer."
In a written statement, Karapasiaoglou spoke of intensifying systematic attacks against Cypriot intellectuals fighting against the Turkish occupation in northern Cyprus.
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