Reporter Deniz Yucel has been placed in jail pending his trial on terrorism related charges. The outrage over the imprisonment of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel herself to condemn the move on Monday, DW reported.

The 43-year-old journalist is in pre-trial detention center about two weeks.

Merkel characterized the decision to keep Yucel in investigative custody "bitter and disappointing."

“This measure is disproportionately harsh, especially given that Deniz Yucel presented himself to the Turkish justice system voluntarily and for the purpose of the investigation,” she said, adding that “the German government expects that the Turkish justice system keeps in mind the great importance that press freedom has in any democratic society in its treatment of the Yucel case.”