German Foreign Minister urges Turkey to release journalist

‘German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has rebuked Turkey’s continued detention of a journalist who worked for a German daily, calling the move both unnecessary and unjust.
“It is now time for the Turkish justice system to make a decision,” said Gabriel in an interview with Die Welt published on Saturday as he promised that Berlin was doing its best to end the detention of Deniz Yucel in Turkey.
Yucel, 43, was arrested on February 18 and his apartment was searched after prosecutors said he could be linked to attack by hackers on the email account of Turkey’s Energy Minister Berat Albayrak.
The journalist, who had willfully attended a police questioning in Istanbul four days earlier, had reported on Albayrak’s private emails acquired by the leftist Turkish hacker collective RedHack. He is accused of “being a member of a terrorist organization, misuse of data and terrorist propaganda.”‘
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