The first hearing of the lawsuit filed against Yakın Doğu News Editor-In-Chief Alptekin Dursunoğlu was held. Dursunoğlu has been arrested on March 1 due to his social media posts on the military operations in Syria. In the first hearing of the case, Istanbul 49th Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced the journalist to 50 days of imprisonment due to “praising the offense and the offender” and turned the sentence into 1,000 TL judicial fine. Dursunoğlu was released.
16.03.2020
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