An Istanbul court sentenced the online editor of Turkey’s secular leftist Cumhuriyet Daily to three years and one month in prison on Tuesday over a tweet shared in May, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Oguz Guven was charged with carrying out propaganda for a terrorist organisation and publishing statements by terrorist groups, according to Anadolu. Guven spent one month in jail after an Istanbul court ordered his arrest following a tweet that referred to a public prosecutor, who was killed in a car accident. The court on Tuesday also charged Guven for aiding Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Turkish Islamist cleric, blamed for last year’s coup attempt. The Turkish government designates Gulen’s movement a terrorist organisation.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2017 16:30 UTC