8 more journalists convicted over solidarity with Kurdish daily

Journalists were given 15-month suspended sentences on Wednesday on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda while serving as the symbolic editor-in-chief for a day of the now-closed Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily in 2016, the Turkish media reported.

Apart from journalists Faruk Eren, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, Celal Başlangıç, İhsan Çaralan, Fehim Işık and Öncü Akgül, Celalettin Can was also given 15 months in prison but his sentence was not suspended.

Hüseyin Aykol, then chief editor of Özgür Gündem, was also sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for the same charge.

A solidarity campaign for Özgür Gündem, the one-day symbolic editor-in-chief routine, was conducted between May and August 2016, in which 56 journalists, lawyers and human rights activists participated.

Forty-nine of them were subject to prosecution, and the newspaper was closed by government decree in October 2016 after a controversial coup that gave the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vast authorities under a subsequent state of emergency. (SCF with turkishminute.com)

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