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The 16th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals annulled the prison sentences imposed on Şahin Alpay, Ali Bulaç and Mümtazer Türköne, former writers of the closed newspaper Zaman.
Istanbul Superior Criminal Court 13, ‘FETUS’ In the case against the editors and directors of the daily Zaman, which was closed due to their connection, in July 2018, Alpay and Bulaç ‘membership of an armed terrorist organization’ He was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison for the same crime, and to 10 years and six months for Türköne.
According to the AA report, the 16th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals annulled the imprisonment of the three defendants and ordered the release of Türköne, taking into account the period of detention.
‘It constitutes the crime of helping the organization’
Completing the appeal review of the decision, the chamber ‘incomplete review’He showed.
According to the decision, the actions of the accused according to the current case ‘helps the organization’ It was stated that it constituted the crime and that a decision had to be made after completing the missing examinations in the record.
Detained for four and a half years
The MHP leader, Devlet Bahçeli, had called for a new trial in the Türköne case last June. Türköne was arrested in August 2016. Şahin Alpay, who was arrested the same year as Türköne, was released in March 2018, and Ali Bulaç in May 2018.
