Cases · requested by Turkey
Can Dündar: INTERPOL notice and outcome
Former editor in chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet who has lived in Germany since June 2016, according to Turkish Minute.
OutcomeNotice refused 2018
As of June 2021, INTERPOL said it had rejected Turkey's earlier request and had received no new one, and he lived in Germany.
As of June 2021, INTERPOL said it had rejected Turkey's earlier request and had received no new one, and he lived in Germany.
What the requesting state alleged
An Istanbul court sentenced him in absentia in December 2020 to 27 years and 6 months in prison for obtaining state secrets for espionage and aiding a terrorist organisation, over a 2015 Cumhuriyet report on intelligence trucks, according to Duvar English.
What happened
- INTERPOL's General Secretariat rejected Turkey's Red Notice request, citing Article 3 of INTERPOL's Constitution, according to an INTERPOL spokesperson quoted by DW Turkish1,2INTERPOL General Secretariat
- Sentenced in absentia by an Istanbul court2Istanbul court
- Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court reissued an arrest warrant and asked the government to seek a Red Notice2Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court
- An INTERPOL official said no new Red Notice request had been received from Turkey2,1INTERPOL
In their words
Sources
- Turkish Minute, Interpol says Turkey's 2018 red notice request for Dündar denied for being political (11 June 2021)
- Duvar English, Interpol says no new red notice request from Turkey on exiled journalist Can Dündar (9 June 2021)
A Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition. It is not an international arrest warrant and is not evidence of guilt. Read the guide.