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Journalist Pelin Ünker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation
Journalist was found guilty of ‘defamation and insult’ for writing about companies owned by former PM
- Julian Borger
- The Guardian
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’s former prime minister and his sons.
Pelin Ünker, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) was found guilty in an Istanbul court of “defamation and insult” for writing about companies in Malta owned by Binali Yıldırım and his sons.
Yıldırım was prime…