“According to individuals and organizations focusing on human rights and marginalized groups in Turkey, official pressure against them continues despite the Ergenekon case,” reads Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review.

The source refers to Etyen Mahcupyan – chief editor of weekly Agos newspaper and a columnist for the daily Taraf. According to him, threats to Agos decreased after investigation on Ergenekon case launch. Mahcupyan reckons that it is impossible “to determine whether an individual committed the attack or an organization until whoever is responsible is apprehended”, the source says.

“We have the usual number [of threats against Agos] via e-mail, so they do not count,” newspaper quotes Mahcupyan. However, he also notes that the number of threats increases before April 24 and decreases whenever the Kurdish problem is in focus.

In his turn, political scientist Baskin Oran underlines that threats against him reduced considerably. “When the mechanism called the ‘deep state’ provokes people, individual reactions and insults increase incredibly,” he told the Hurriyet Daily News.