Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced journalist Oğuz Güven to six months of imprisonment due to ‘provoking the public to hatred and hostility’ through a cartoon he drew and was published on the website of Cumhuriyet Daily.
The newspaper’s columnists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Çetinkaya have previously been sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment each due to ‘provoking the public to hatred and hostility’ after their inclusion of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon, depicting Mohammed the Prophet, on their columns. A lawsuit was then filed against Güven after publishing the same cartoon on the newspaper’s website while reporting the incidents in the courthouse during the prosecution of Karan and Çetin.
01.08.2018
aksam.com.tr