Six journalists sentenced to life in Turkey

The charges against them are about the movement of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in exile in the United States.

Ankara accuses the once friend of Recep Tayip Erdogan, of being the person who organised the failed coup of the state July 2016.

Journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, as well as Nazli Ilicak will spend their lives in prison because according to the indictment they have been informed ahead of the military stamp, writes Top Channel.

Officially, their sentence means that they must spend 40 years in jail. The claim that they have tried to crack down on constitutional order deprives journalists of freedom as well as journalists Fevzi Yazıcın, Jakup eymşek of {ükrü Tuğrul úzşengül, who worked in newspapers and a TV station connected to Gulen.

This is a dark day for press freedom and for justice in Turkey. It creates a hostile precedent for all other journalists, who face court processes filed on similar counterfeit charges terrorism”, said the director of the “Amnesty International” Europe branch, Gauri van Gulick.

Shortly after his release, Deniz Yucel traveled to Berlin. The journalist, whose arrest turned out to be the cause of serious friction between Germany and Turkey, has never admitted the charges brought against him.