Outrage grows over exclusion of Turkish journalists from neo-Nazi terror trial

Source: Independent

Outrage grows over exclusion of Turkish journalists from neo-Nazi terror trial
Tony Paterson
Thursday 28 March 2013

Turkey waded into a deepening row with Germany’s justice ministry today when it demanded that a Munich court guarantee access to its journalists for the trial of five neo-Nazis accused of the worst far-right terrorist attacks in post-war German history.


The five, due to stand trial in Munich next month, have been charged with complicity in the murders of a policewoman and nine immigrants, including a Greek stallholder and eight Turkish street vendors.

On Monday judges at the Munich court trying the far-right National Socialist Underground members ruled that Turkish journalists could not be guaranteed access to the trial because they had submitted in their applications too late.

Today the administration in Ankara joined the German government, the European Commission, German-Turkish organisations and Germany’s Foreign Press Association in demanding that the court revise its decision. Germany is home to nearly three million Turkish immigrants.


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