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Journalist Pelek gave her statement in the trial filed against her and journalist Dolu on the grounds of having published General Fırtına's statement at the prosecution related to the Ergenekon investigation. The case was postponed to August.

Journalists Semra Pelek and Mustafa Dolu are facing up to eight years in jail. They are sued by ret. General Fırtına, former Air Force Commander, for a news item related to his statement given at the prosecution in the scope of the Ergenekon investigation. The trial was postponed to March 2011.

Former editor Pelek and editorial manager Dolu are each facing prison sentences of up to 8 years on the grounds of a news article in the context of the Ergenekon investigation. Journalist association president Abakay criticizes that this kind of trial is not legal.

An Istanbul court has sentenced responsible editor Dolu of the Tercüman newspaper to an administrative fine for allowing anti-militarist journalists Mağden and Temelkuran to be insulted in the paper.

Following their denouncement of militarism in their respective columns, journalists Mağden and Temelkuran became targets for the Tercüman newspaper. An editor of the paper is now on trial for insulting them.