The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a lawsuit against Etkin News Agency (ETHA) reporter Elif Bayburt over her interview on “Palestine” with Rob Sadler from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The Press Crimes Investigation Bureau accused Bayburt of “insulting the Turkish nation, the state of the Republic of Turkey, and the institutions and organs of the state” (Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code) due to the interview, which was also published in Atılım magazine. The accusation was based on Sadler’s statement: “…The governments of Turkey and the U.S. are complicit in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.” The Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance accepted the indictment on January 2