Fifth Day of Cumhuriyet Daily Trial: Interlocutory Judgement Awaited

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The fifth hearing in the 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 is being held today (July 27).

Arrested columnist Kadri Gürsel, caricaturist Musa Kart, Cumhuriyet Foundation Management Board member Attorney Bülent Utku, Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, Cumhuriyet Foundation Management Board member Attorney Mustafa Kemal Güngör, Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet Book Supplement Turhan Günayi columnist Güray Öz, attorney Akın Atalay, Cumhuriyet correspondent Ahmet Şık and Ahmet Kemal Aydoğdu who is standing trial because of his Tweets as well as Orhan Erinç, Günseli Özaltay, Hikmet Çetinkaya, Aydın Engin and Bülent Yener who are standing trial without arrest are in the courtroom.

Kadri Gürsel, Akın Atalay and Musa Kart pleaded on the first hearing of the trial held on July 24, Murat Sabuncu, Bülent Utku, Güray Öz, Önder Çelik and Mustafa Kemal Güngör made their pleas on July 25, Hakan Kara, Turhan Günay, Ahmet Şık, Ahmet Kemal Aydoğdu, Bülent Yener, Günseli Özaltay made their pleas on July 26.

The demands were received and that the prosecutor’s dictum and the interlocutory judgement is awaited.

The hearing started at 10:30 a.m. (EA/BK/TK/DG)