A Turkish court has sentenced six prominent journalists to life in jail over the country’s failed coup in 2016.
Three were sentenced on charges of aiding the network blamed for the coup attempt, TRT Haber TV reported, even after Turkey’s highest court had ordered the release of one of them.
Mehmet Altan, an economics professor and journalist, and his brother Ahmet were charged with giving coded messages in a television talkshow a day before the abortive 15 July military coup. Nazlı Ilıcak, another veteran journalist, was jailed for life.
Three other defendants were also sentenced to life for trying to abolish the constitution and overthrow the government.
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