Pelin Ünker

[5] Cumhuriyet has since shifted its stance to align more closely with the government, with a number of its journalists sued or resigning, and its former chief editor, Can Dündar, fleeing the country.

[2] The sons, both doing maritime business, officially set up two companies in Malta, to avoid high Turkish tax rates.

[4] The brothers, although publicly acknowledging those facts,[8] sued journalist Pelin Ünker and the newspaper Cumhuriyet in 2018 after they published the story describing their involvement.

[3] Following the incident, in March 2019 the One Free Press Coalition included her in the list of world's ten most endangered journalists.

[13] In 2020, thousands of documents from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have been leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).