Turkish journalist serving life sentence gets six more years
Nazli Ilicak and five other reporters were given life in prison in 2018 for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup attempt, and all have denied charges
Ankara — A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent journalist serving a life sentence to almost six additional years in prison for leaking information deemed secret by the government, the state-owned Anadolu news agency said. Nazli Ilicak was sentenced to life in prison along with five other journalists in February 2018 for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup attempt. All six of the journalists, including Ilicak, have denied the charges. On Tuesday, the court sentenced Ilicak to five years and 10 months in prison in a separate case where she was charged with “sharing information that needed to remain secret for the security of the state”, Anadolu said. Ilicak, a journalist, columnist and former legislator, had also been sentenced to 14 months in prison in 2018 year for insulting the president, a crime punishable by up to four years in prison in Turkey. Along with Ilicak, two prominent journalist brothers — Ahmet and Mehmet Altan — were sentenced to life in prison in Februar...
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