Turkey protests as German police search homes of 2 journalists working for a Turkish newspaper

German police searched the properties of two journalists for a Turkish newspaper on Wednesday in an operation that drew a pointy protest from the Turkish International Ministry.

Prosecutors and police in Darmstadt mentioned that the flats of the 2 males in Moerfelden-Walldorf, south of Frankfurt, had been searched as a part of an investigation of suspicions of “compromising dissemination of private information.” In an announcement, they did not elaborate on the accusation.

They mentioned that digital storage media and different proof had been seized, and that the journalists had been then launched.

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Authorities in Germany seized digital storage media and different proof throughout a search on the properties of two journalists for a Turkish newspaper. The search drew a pointy protest from the Turkish authorities. (Fox Information)

German authorities did not determine the journalists or give another particulars.

Turkey’s International Ministry mentioned in an announcement that “the detention of Frankfurt bureau representatives of Sabah newspaper by the German police at the moment with out justification is an act of harassment and intimidation in opposition to the Turkish media.”

It alleged that the journalists had been focused by a “false denunciation” of a member of the community linked to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen due to their reporting on its actions in Germany. The Turkish authorities blames Gulen for a failed coup in 2016 and considers the community to be a terrorist group.

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The ministry assertion denounced what it known as a “deliberate act” by German authorities between the 2 rounds of Turkey’s presidential election, through which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is searching for one other time period, and mentioned the German ambassador was summoned to the International Ministry in Ankara.

Germany has often expressed concern concerning the state of freedom of opinion and the press in Turkey. Wednesday’s Turkish assertion accused Berlin of double requirements.