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Journalist Tuğrul Eryılmaz, one of the editors of the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of the now-closed Özgür Gündem has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined 6,000 TL. Court deferred his prison sentence.

Trials of 21 journalists at 13th and 22nd Heavy Penal Courts continued on February 14, 2017. Three journalists were penalized. In other trials, the prosecutor submitted similar opinion as to the accusations.