Turkey sentences two journalists to ten months in prison

A Turkish court sentenced two journalists to ten months in prison for publishing a statement of KCK.

Chief editor of daily Özgürlükçü Demokrasi (Libertarian Democracy) Yılmaz Yıldız and editor İshak Yasul have been sentenced to ten months in prison each for publishing a statement of KCK.

At the second hearing Istanbul 36th Criminal Court, the court board said that the statement published by Özgürlükçü Demokrasi contains violence and sentenced each of the two journalists to one year in prison.

The board then reduced the sentenced to ten months for each journalist and suspended the pronouncement of the judgement.