Duchess of York's lawyers try to get Turkish criminal charges against her thrown out ahead of trial The Duchess did not attend today's hearing, where she was represented by lawyer Cansu Sahin, and Britain has rejected a request for her extradition, which was first lodged in 2009, because the crime she is charged with does not exist in the UK. "The court wasn't in possession of the full facts," said the spokesman. Her legal team have explained that she didn't produce the programme, she was just a contributor. She was just trying to create more awareness of this problem. Chris Rogers, another member of the Tonight documentary team who is also charged with invading privacy, said earlier this year that the film crew had known it was against the law to film in secret in Turkey. But he said there was a "strong public interest" in exposing conditions in the orphanages, because Turkey wants to join the EU and has been told it must improve its human rights record before it can be considered. When the Duchess was charged in January, she said she was "happy with courage to stand by the film."