Gaziantep Regional Court Penal Department No. 3 has approved the 3 years, 1 month and 15 days prison sentence sought by Diyarbakır 4th Heavy Penal Court for journalist İsmail Eskin.

Eskin was prosecuted for alleged charges of “spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation” due to his Twitter posts in which he reported about the rights violations committed during the curfews in Amed and ISIS attacks on Kobanê.