Media tycoon fights extradition to Turkey in coup round-up

AkAn Apek and two other men to appear at Westminster court in case linked to 2016 uprising

British diplomatic links to Turkey will come under pressure this week as a dispossessed media proprietor faces extradition to Ankara for financial offences allegedly related to a military coup.

AkAn Apek, whose newspapers and TV stations have been confiscated by Turkish officials for criticising President Recep Tayip ErdoAan's regime, will appear alongside two other men at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday.

The case against Apek and his co-accused follows demands for the UK to send back fugitives supposedly involved with the Fethullah Gi1/4len movement, which the Turkish government claims was responsible for the 2016 uprising against ErdoAan.