{"id":75002,"date":"2019-01-09T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/09\/journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T02:18:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:18:42","slug":"journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75002","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Pelin \u00dcnker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist was found guilty of \u2018defamation and insult\u2019 for writing about companies owned by former PM A Turkish journalist has been sentenced to more than a year in jail for her work on the Paradise Papers investigation into offshore tax havens, because it revealed details of the business activities of the country\u2019s former prime minister and his sons.Pelin \u00dcnker, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) was found guilty in an Istanbul court of \u201cdefamation and insult\u201d for writing about companies in Malta owned by Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m and his sons. Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m was prime minister from 2016 to 2018, when the post was abolished, and is now the speaker of the country\u2019s national assembly. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/09\/journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">Journalist Pelin \u00dcnker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist was found guilty of \u2018defamation and insult\u2019 for writing about companies owned by former PM A Turkish journalist has been sentenced to more than a year in jail for her work on the Paradise Papers investigation into offshore tax havens, because it revealed details of the business activities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}