eighty kilometers west of istanbul this is where the trial of german journalist and translator mashallah tulu is taking place serious charges have been brought against her and a group of seventeen others membership of an extreme left terrorist organization and involvement in terrorist propaganda according to toulouse lawyers she faces up to twenty years in jail. the evidence is very thin it seems very constructed. and it looks questionable as to whether what she's accused of are even crimes as they refer to appearances at public events that were not. the events which tulu appeared were organized by the extreme left group the m.l.k. p. which is designated as a terrorist group in turkey a secret witness has also said that to lou had been actively helping their milky p. lus father believes that the charges against his daughter will crumble before the court. i believe that the court will free my daughter and the other accused as well i have a feeling that there's a sixty to seventy percent chance. observers however don't feel of a fair constitutional trial they fear that as a german to lou could