A Turkish court sentenced the online editor of Turkey’s main opposition daily to three years and one month in jail on terror charges, reports said on Tuesday.
Guven, editor of the online version of the secular Cumhuriyet (“Republic”) daily, was found guilty by an Istanbul court of disseminating “terror” propaganda for outlawed groups, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
These included the group of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen who Ankara accuses of being behind last year’s failed coup bid and leading the so-called Fethullah Terror Group (FETO). Gulen denies the charges. Meanwhile, Dogan news agency said the second charge referred to his alleged support of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is blacklisted as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies.