A Turkish court has sentenced journalist Pelin Ünker to 13 months’ imprisonment for her participation in reporting the Panama Papers, a massive leak of documents from the tax-evasion enablers Mossack-Fonseca.
Ünker published the true (and undisputed) facts about former Binali
Yıldırım and his sons, whose ownership of Maltese companies was revealed
in the leaks. Despite the truth of the matter, Ünker was convicted of
“defamation and insult.”
Ünker is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.