{"id":46171,"date":"2010-09-24T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/24\/german-citizen-of-turkish-descent-arrested-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:31:00","slug":"german-citizen-of-turkish-descent-arrested-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/24\/german-citizen-of-turkish-descent-arrested-in-turkey.html","title":{"rendered":"German Citizen of Turkish Descent Arrested in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1)\">Do<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u011f<\/span>an Akhanli, a writer of Turkish descent and German citizen, who was arrested in Turkey in August, will appear in court. The prosecutor is asking for imprisonment for life because he is being accused of overthrowing constitutional order in Turkey, reports German news source Taz.de.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1)\">According to\u00a0 Turkish law enforcement agencies, Akhanli was acting as the head of a &#8220;terrorist group.&#8221; After being arrested, he was accused of robbery, which resulted in the death of a man. In the prosecutor&#8217;s opinion, that which was stolen during the robbery was to have been sent to fund a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1)\">Akhanli&#8217;s friends and family believe that his arrest is related to his work, which has repeatedly drawn the attention of the international community to the issue of the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; color: rgb(1, 1, 1)\">According to Regnum news agency, German writer\u00a0G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00fc<\/span>nter\u00a0Wallraff likewise believes that the Turkish authorities&#8217; actions toward Akhanli are connected to the writer&#8217;s views on the Armenian Genocide of 1915.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do\u011fan Akhanli, a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[16128,10371,16129,16130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}