Sentence of 81 Years in Prison in Cumhuriyet Trial, Akın Atalaya Released

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Verdict has been rendered in Cumhuriyet trial: 15 people have been sentenced in total to 81 years and 45 days in prison, three people have been acquitted. Files of Can Dündar and İlhan Tanır have been separated.

Cumhuriyet Executive Board Chair Akın Atalay has been released in the eight hearing held by İstanbul 27th Heavy Penal Court in Cumhuriyet trial in which 20 people have been tried. Twitter user Ahmet Kemal Aydoğdu’s detention continues.

The chief judge was Abdurrahman Orkun Dağ.

Sentences

*Cumhuriyet Executive Board Chair Akın Atalay was acquitted of “malpractice” and sentenced to 7 years 3 months and 15 days in prison on charge of “aiding an illegal organization”. Atalay was released.

Orhan Erinç was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months, Murat Sabuncu to 7 years and 6 months, Kadri Gürsel to 2 years and 6 months, Güray Öz to 3 years and 9 months, Musa Kart to 3 years and 9 months, Aydın Engin to 7 years and 6 months, Hikmet Çetinkaya to 6 years and 3 months, Ahmet Şık to 7 years and 6 months, Mustafa Kemal Güngör, Hakan Kara and Önder Çelik each to 3 years and 9 months, Ahmet Kemal Aydoğdu to 10 years, Emre İper to 3 years 1 month and 15 days in prison on charge of “aiding a terrorist organization”. Bülent Utku was acquitted of “malpractice” and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison on charge of “aiding and propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.

*Turhan Günay, Bülent Yener and Günseli Özaltay were acquitted.

*All defendants who were pending trial without arrest were released on probation.

*Files of Can Dündar and İlhan Tanır were separated. (EA/TK)