Suspicious vehicle follows Kayıt Dışı team covering Sinan Ateş trial

Journalist Barış Terkoğlu wrote in his column yesterday that the MHP, which requested to join the Sinan Ateş trial as a 'victim,' had submitted a court petition listing 154 names and demanding they be summoned to court.

In addition to TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ, TELE1 columnist Hüsnü Mahalli, and TELE1 programmer Namık Koçak, the list also included Özlem Gürses, Caner Taşpınar, Masum Gök, and Ersin Eroğlu from TELE1's investigative program Kayıt Dışı.

A striking claim was also made on the Kayıt Dışı program, moderated by journalist Özlem Gürses.

The Kayıt Dışı team, which was broadcasting from Ankara following the July 1 Sinan Ateş hearing, announced that they were followed by a suspicious vehicle.

'IT DROVE AWAY RAPIDLY AS WE APPROACHED'

Journalist Masum Gök stated the following:

“We, as the Kayıt Dışı team, held our first broadcast on the Sinan Ateş hearing on July 1 in Ankara. We did it at TELE1's Ankara studio. I was sitting on the balcony and there was a vehicle with someone inside. It didn't interest me much, nor did it catch my attention. Later, as we took breaks from the broadcast, I would go out to the balcony and the vehicle was still there, and I thought, 'It must be a channel vehicle, it will take the night staff home.' Because we didn't know the team in Ankara, we thought it would serve as a shuttle. All the staff left. Then our broadcast ended. It was past midnight. I said to Caner, 'Caner, this vehicle has been waiting for hours. I arrived during the day and the vehicle was there.' As we walked toward the vehicle, it drove away from us rapidly and left. It turned around and passed in front of us again because we had noticed it. At that moment, we took down its license plate. We also thought, 'Could it be plainclothes police? Maybe some information came in.' Things like this happen. Then we researched the plate. The plate belongs to another individual. And the plate's history is interesting. You know, there is the issue of coincidence; the word 'coincidence' is used a lot in the Sinan Ateş case as well. The provinces where the plate was changed are interesting. Istanbul, Mersin, and Ankara. Did this vehicle change its plate three times across the geography of Turkey? Yes, and in which provinces did it change? Istanbul, Mersin, Ankara. It could be a coincidence; we didn't want to bring this up too much. But after this list, I said we should talk about it.”

Journalist Caner Taşpınar described the incident as follows:

'THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER VEHICLE PARKING THERE'

“So, when we left, Masum mentioned it. I also thought it was definitely a channel vehicle. But then we looked very seriously at what it was, and we could see the person inside the vehicle. They were looking at us too. After the people who were leaving had gone, it was in such a spot that if you don't have a connection to the channel, it's impossible for you to be standing there. Because I had my vehicle. There was only that vehicle and mine there; there is no possibility of another vehicle parking there anyway. So we started both looking and trying to understand what was going to happen. Afterward, we were all surprised; after we looked very carefully and everyone had left, the vehicle drove off. It passed in front of us again, and that's when we took the plate number. Masum followed up on it.”