#MemberComment: Kadri Gürsel: `I´m proud to be one of you´
(World News Austria)

Dear IPI members, colleagues and friends, As you might know, I was detained and jailed in Istanbul`s infamous Silivri prison together with eight other colleagues from the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper at the end of last October. This was an arbitrary political operation aiming at silencing the newspaper for which I was writing columns and serving as editorial adviser. I`m finally released from jail after having being kept captive for 11 months. It`s great to join again the camaraderie of global defenders of press freedom. Typing this letter to reach you directly is a wonderful feeling. We, the Cumhuriyet defendants, waited for five-and-a-half months to see the indictment finally written and...