An Istanbul court had in May sentenced Can Dundar to five years and 10 months in jail for purportedly uncovering state mysteries in a story that incensed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Dundar was permitted to go free pending request after the trial and is presently accepted to be in Germany. Be that as it may, he said he would not surrender to the legal as the highly sensitive situation forced after the upset implied he would not get a reasonable hearing.
He said every one of the signs showed a time of "disorder" was under way, and that the highly sensitive situation was being utilized by the legislature as an affection to discretionarily control the legal.
"To trust such a legal would resemble putting one's head under the guillotine," he wrote in a Cumhuriyet segment entitled "time to say goodbye".
"Starting now and into the foreseeable future, what we face would not be the court but rather the legislature. No higher court would question the rebellion being done," he said.
"Along these lines, I've chosen not to surrender to this legal in any event until the highly sensitive situation is lifted."
– 'Bastion of free media'- Cumhuriyet's report on a shipment of arms caught at the Syrian outskirt in January 2014 started a furore when it was distributed in May 2015, with Erdogan cautioning Dundar himself he would "pay a substantial cost."
Dundar, together with his Ankara department boss Erdem Gul, burned through three months in pre-trial confinement, before being liberated on February 26 under a protected court administering.
Dundar, a massively noticeable figure in Turkey and writer of a few books and documentaries, was designated Cumhuriyet proofreader in February 2015 and quickly made it Turkey's most honed restriction day by day.
He said he would go on the post of proofreader in-boss however would remain composing articles as a reporter.
"During a period of overwhelming weight when a lot of media outlets were compelled to take the administration line or volunteered to surrender, we worked hard and fast to appropriately safeguard the 'last bastion of the autonomous press' and ensure the honor of reporting and keep news coverage alive," he said.
"I'll always remember this experience all my life."
Press opportunity guard dog Reporters Without Borders has named Turkey as "world pioneer" in detained writers after what it called a "witch chase" propelled in the wake of the July 15 overthrow endeavor.
In the draconian highly sensitive situation forced after the unsuccessful overthrow, the powers have shut more than 100 media outlets condemning of the legislature, put 42 writers in temporary confinement and banned numerous others from voyaging abroad, it said.
Those held incorporate the veteran writer Nazli Ilicak and in addition the previous journalist for the star Gulen Zaman day by day Hanim Busra Erdal.
"The 42 recently kept writers consolidated with the individuals who were at that point in jail before the fruitless overthrow makes Turkey the best on the planet in detained media work force," said Johann Bihr, the leader of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia work area at Reporters Without Borders.
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