Turkish court sentences to jail seven at opposition newspaper

A Turkish court on Friday passed on prison sentences to seven writers and different staff members at restriction paper Sozcu over helping a system that Ankara says arranged a bombed upset in 2016, the paper said.

Sozcu, long a mainstay of Turkey's secularist foundation, portrayed the decision as a dark imprint throughout the entire existence of free press. Every one of the eight litigants present at the last court hearing requested vindications, the paper said.

Ankara has taken action against associated supporters with Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.- based Muslim priest, since the July 2016 upset endeavor in which somewhere in the range of 250 individuals were executed. Tasks against the system are as yet standard.

Noticeable editorialists Emin Colasan and Necati Dogru, just as editors Mustafa Cetin and Metin Yilmaz were indicted for supporting the Gulenist arrange and each were condemned to over three years in prison, Sozcu said.

The court managed to clear video writer Mediha Olgun, and it conceded a decision on the paper's proprietor Burak Akbay, who was being attempted in absentia.

In the a long time since the endeavored upset, in excess of 77,000 individuals have been imprisoned pending preliminary and around 150,000 government employees, military faculty and others have been sacked or suspended from their occupations.