Haber metni: The signatories to a petition calling for the release of the  staffers were made public at a meeting held yesterday at the Taksim Hill Hotel. Istanbul Bar Association Chair, Mehmet Durakoğlu, who read the joint text that had been drawn up, recalling that  newspaper’s managers, columnists and cartoonists had been arrested in an operation commencing on 31 October 2016 and placed in detention on 5 November, said, “The text submitted to the court called an indictment, just as much as it is totally devoid of concrete foundation, also blatantly violates the principle of legality in crime and punishment and tramples on legal certainty in the country. The  newspaper trial has no other meaning than the endeavour to manufacture a crime out of a newspaper’s basic activity of reporting the news.” Durakoğlu, stressing that for as long as the  trial continues, the people’s right to receive news and be informed and freedom of expression and the press will be under threat, and all journalists, writers and intellectuals who speak the truth, which is as necessary as bread and water, will continue to be targeted, commented, “We call on Akın Atalay, Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık and Emre İper, who are being held in jail with an unlawful prosecution being pursued, and all journalists being detained in prison, to be immediately returned to freedom.”                  Representative of the We Will Halt Women’s Murders Platform, Gülsüm Kav, in turn, stating that freedom of expression was regressing in Turkey, commented, “We say that a free press is a right. This is also above all the right of women. They want to hide the truths that concern half the population and by depriving people of the right to learn these truths they want to hide the truths that relate to women. Women suffer violence because they wish to express themselves. Journalists are being punished for speaking of this.” Lawyer Gülendam Şan Karabulutlar, in turn, recalling the Justice Watch, said, “There was an intervention at the public prosecutor’s behest against the first Justice Watch. Despite the assault, participation increased the next week. This solidarity both gave public visibility to the detained journalists, and was a means for pressurising the political rulership and also served as great moral support for the detained journalists. Those on trial are journalists. Journalistic activity cannot be brought into association with crime.” Journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu then said that nobody could remain free with dozens of journalists held hostage. The press meeting ended with a cinevision display of footage of the protest held in Kadıköy.       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365 enlightened signatures for 365 dark days: Release the Cumhuriyet staffers at once