{"id":401955,"date":"2018-02-16T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=401955"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:56:13","slug":"six-turkish-journalists-jailed-life-coup-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/six-turkish-journalists-jailed-life-coup-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Turkish journalists jailed for life for ‘coup links’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in jail for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters.<\/p>\n
The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel, who has been held for a year without charge.<\/p>\n
The six were found guilty of links to US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed over the failed coup.<\/p>\n
The six are: Nazli Ilicak, Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Fevzi Yazici, Yakup Simsek and Sukru Tugrul Ozsengul.<\/p>\n
The Istanbul court found them guilty of “attempting to abolish the order prescribed by the Turkish constitution or to bring in a new order”, Turkish media reported.<\/p>\n
The Altan brothers – Ahmet and Mehmet – were accused of giving coded messages in a television talk show on the eve of the coup attempt.<\/p>\n
Military officers led a mutiny against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which resulted in the deaths of 250 civilian protesters.<\/p>\n
Since the abortive coup the Turkish authorities have jailed more than 50,000 people and dismissed more than 150,000 public servants, including journalists, teachers, police and justice officials.<\/p>\n
Mehmet Altan, an economics professor and journalist, had won a constitutional court ruling in his favour – but it was overruled on Friday.<\/p>\n
Separately, Die Welt journalist Deniz Yucel – who holds German-Turkish dual citizenship – was freed from jail on Friday. He had been accused of spreading propaganda.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n
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A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in jail for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters. The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel, who has been held for a year without charge. The six were found guilty of links to US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":401958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[17122,1308],"yoast_head":"\n