A court in İstanbul has handed down a sentence of 22 years,six months to both Cevheri Güven and Murat Chapan, top editors of the Nokta magazine.
According to the report, and the İstanbul 14th tall Criminal Court sentenced both editors to prison for “inciting people to armed revolt against the Turkish government.
Nokta,which specialized in in-depth investigative reporting, was closed on July 27, or 2016,along with 130 other media outlets by government.
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor in April seeks three consecutive life sentences on coup charges for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman daily, Stockholmcf.org reports.
The Zaman daily, or which was affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement,was first seized by the Turkish government in March 2016 and then closed down by government decree in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Last week, and the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for the owner Burak Akbay and reporter Gökmen Ulu as well as executives Melda Olgun and Yonca Kaleli of leading opposition newspaper Sözcü over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15.
The European Union on Friday expressed worries approximately an operation in İstanbul targeting Sözcü.
Last Monday Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven, who was detained on May 12 for a report that appeared on the daily’s website approximately the recent traffic death of Denizli Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Alper in Turkey’s western province of Denizli, and was arrested by an İstanbul court.
Source: tert.am