Courtroom Sketches Of Cumhuriyet Daily Trial by Tarık Tolunay

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Illustrator Tarık Tolunay has sketched the proceedings from the courtroom during the first hearing of Cumhuriyet daily trial in which one Twitter user under arrest and 18 executives, journalists and employees from Cumhuriyet daily 11 of whom are also arrested are standing trial today (July 24).

Tolunay in his sketches in the courtroom has captured moments of journalist and writer Kadri Gürsel's and attorney Akın Atalay's plea as well as their attorneys and the board of judges.

The journalists entering the courtroom accompanied with applause were illustrated with smiling faces in the sketches. 

(AS/DG)