{"id":25168,"date":"2016-05-07T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reporters-can-dundar-erdem-gul-sentenced-to-five\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T03:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T03:48:06","slug":"reporters-can-dundar-erdem-gul-sentenced-to-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reporters-can-dundar-erdem-gul-sentenced-to-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporters Can Dundar, Erdem Gul sentenced to five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Prominent journalists convicted of revealing state secrets over report about alleged government arms shipments to Syria.}<\/p>\n<p>Two Turkish journalists have been sentenced to at least five years in prison for revealing state secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, was given five years and 10 months in jail and Erdem Gul, the paper&#8217;s Ankara bureau chief, was handed a five-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The two journalists were charged over a report about alleged government arms shipments from Turkey to Syrian rebels.<\/p>\n<p>They were acquitted of a number of charges, including trying to topple the government and espionage.<\/p>\n<p>The court separated charges of links to terrorist organisations to await a verdict in a separate trial and the pair wil not immediately go to prison.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the ruling, saying Dundar and Gul were &#8220;unjustly sentenced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what was really on trial was the Turkish criminal system, which is guilty of gross misconduct,\u201d said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.<\/p>\n<p>The prison terms were announced shortly after Dundar evaded an assassination attempt on him outside the court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant reportedly yelled &#8220;traitor&#8221; before opening fire, hitting another journalist who had been covering the trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That someone shot at Dundar outside the court put Turkey&#8217;s instability into stark relief,&#8221; Simon added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12171 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d47c0111591a4026bc3f72fa6d7af64f_18.jpg\" alt=\"The verdict came shortly after Dundar escaped an assassination attempt\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Prominent journalists convicted of revealing state secrets over report about alleged government arms shipments to Syria.} Two Turkish journalists have been sentenced to at least five years in prison for revealing state secrets. 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