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00:03 Report / Julia Hahn
00:36 Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist
01:34 Veysel Ok / Media rights lawyer 
02:23 Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist
02:51 Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist

Script:

+++Video of police action, then animated photos of police violence against protesters

+++ATMO 

00:02 

These images have made headlines around the world:

Turkish riot police using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray on crowds 

protesting in March against the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor, Ekrem 

Imamoglu. 

The top political rival to President Erdogan.

+++Bülent with his camera, then Bülent looking at protest photos on his laptop

00:21
Photojournalist Bülent Kılıç was there to capture these scenes.

He has been working as a news photographer in Turkey for many years 

and has won numerous awards for his images.

But this time, they landed him in jail. 

00:35
+++Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist (Turkish)
One morning at 6 a.m., someone banged loudly on my door [bang bang bang]. I jumped out of bed and shouted, "Who is it?" "Police", they said, "open up!" [...] They put me in prison for 3 to 4 days and then released me. [...] I think they didn't want me to take photos. They were punishing me for my journalistic work.+++ (22 sec) 

+++more of Bülent 

00:58
Kılıç was let go - but put on trial together with hundreds of protesters.

He and seven other Turkish journalists now face up to three years in jail after state prosecutors accused them of 

participating in unauthorized demonstrations.

01:13
+++Mark Lowen snipped via Reuters
Mark Lowen, a correspondent for the BBC, was detained and deported 

after covering the anti-government protests in Istanbul. 

+++Reuters footage on ban Sözcü, Halk TV etc. 

01:21
Turkish authorities have also blocked hundreds of social media accounts 
and imposed heavy fines and broadcasting bans on several tv stations over their coverage.

01:31
+++SOT Veysel Ok / Media rights lawyer (Turkish)
Turkey has reached a new low in terms of free speech and press freedom [...] Freedom of expression is exclusively reserved for those close to the government. As soon as independent or opposition voices exercise their right to free speech, they face judicial harassment and arrest.+++ (19 sec)

+++Erdogan on all TV channels, Reporters Without Borders website briefly 

01:51
An overwhelming majority of Turkish media outlets are directly or indirectly controlled by 

President Erdogan and his ruling AKP, media rights organizations say.

They have regularly described Turkey as one of the world's worst jailers of journalists and 

accuse Erdogan's government of undermining press freedom and media pluralism.

+++Bülent going to court
02:12
Photographer Bülent Kılıç agrees. 

He recently had to appear before an Istanbul court – 

where he must prove that he was at the street protests ((on a journalistic mission)) as a journalist.

02:22
+++SOT Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist (Turkish)
Even the birds know that I'm a photojournalist. But the prosecution won't believe it. That's what really bothers me. [...] If you were to shake me upside down, a camera, a memory card, and batteries would fall out of my pockets – nothing else. That's why this is a great injustice. It's absurd!+++ (20 sec) 

+++courthouse from outside, police
02:43
He is certain the trial is nothing but an attempt to discourage him and others from doing their jobs.

02:50
+++SOT Bulent Kilic / Photojournalist (Turkish)
By going after one photojournalist, you intimidate a thousand. By arresting one TV reporter, you scare a thousand more. That's the goal. [...] These are actions meant to scare people, to intimidate journalists, to demoralize them. But honestly, I don't think it's working.+++ (16 sec)
+++last images Bülent at court, walks away 

03:07
Bülent Kılıç firmly believes that he'll be acquitted at one of the next hearings.

Photojournalism is his life, he says,

and certainly not something anyone should be imprisoned for.

Text ends 03:19
Pics end: 03:22