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Sözcü newspaper editors and executives were sentenced to prison terms of 3 years 6 months to 2 years and 1 month by the 37th High Criminal Court in Istanbul on December 27, 2019, for allegedly “assisting FETÖ knowingly and voluntarily”. On December 30, 2019, lawyers for the daily SÖZCÜ appealed to the Court of Appeal for the convictions and acquittal to be overturned.
Istanbul Regional Court of Justice 27. The Criminal Chamber confirmed the decisions of the local court, the file will be sent to the Supreme Court.
The sanctions stipulated by the 37th Higher Criminal Court of Istanbul for newspaper employees and editors were as follows:
Spokesman Emin Çölaşan: 3 years 6 months 15 days
Spokesman Necati Doğru: 3 years 6 months 15 days
Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sözcü Metin Yılmaz: 3 years 4 months
Editor-in-chief of Sozcu.com.tr Mustafa Cetin: 3 years 4 months
Sozcu.com.tr News Coordinator Yücel Bee: 1 year 13 months
Sözcü newspaper reporter Gökmen Ulu: 1 year 13 months
Accountant for the newspaper Sözcü Yonca Yücekaleli: 1 year 13 months
HERE IS A BLACK STAIN THAT WILL ENTER THE HISTORY OF PRESS AND LAW
SÖZCÜ, which has continued its publishing life without compromising the Atatürk line since its inception, was launched on May 19, 2017.
The Istanbul prosecutor Asım Ekren filed a lawsuit against the owner of the newspaper Burak Akbay, the reporter Gökmen Ulu, the accountant Yonca Yücekaleli and the former manager responsible for the website Mediha Olgun on the charge of “not being included in the hierarchical structure of the organization, helping consciously and voluntarily “.
With a second indictment prepared, this time, the editor-in-chief of the SÖZCÜ newspaper, Metin Yılmaz, his writers Emin Çölaşan, Necati Doğru and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper’s website, Mustafa Çetin and the coordinator Yücel Arı, were sued without the same charge.
Both cases were accumulated in the 37th Superior Criminal Court in Istanbul. In the Sözcü conspiracy case, the prosecutor requested a prison term of 5 to 10 years for the editors and editors of our newspaper on the charge of “knowingly and voluntarily assisting the organization.”
THE SO-CALLED TESTS!
In the case brought against Sözcü, only news and articles were shown as evidence. Most of these stories were also published in other newspapers and televisions. So he actually tried journalism in Turkey …
While no investigation was launched against other newspapers and televisions that published the same news, the press law was ignored and only SÖZCÜ was sued.
During the judicial process, the expert report, which exonerated Burak Akbay, was ignored. However, the charges were refuted one by one. Even the witnesses shown by the prosecutor who prepared the indictment said: “FETÖ will not leave SÖZCÜ.”
At the decision hearing, the judicial committee chaired by Judge Akın Gürlek sentenced our writers and executives to prison terms ranging from 2 years to 1 month and 3 years, 6 months and 15 days.
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