Turkey's condemnation concerns the detention of 10 journalists from the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet in 2016.
The charges that Ankara had accused the journalists of “propaganda” for “terrorist organisations”. The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights ruled that the journalists' right to freedom of expression had been flagrantly violated.
Only one of the convicts who were remanded in custody in November 2016 was finally released two years later.
In a recent report, the German Foreign Ministry said that freedom of assembly and association, freedom of expression and freedom of the press are “largely undermined” in Turkey.
