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Journalist Boğatekin received a 5 years, one month and seven days prison sentence for claiming prosecutor Ovacıklı's being close to religious leader Fethullah Gülen. He was furthermore deprived of his civil rights. Journalist Badur was handed down a TL 3,000 monetary fine.

Journalists Hacı Boğatekin and Cumali Badur together face 18 years in the lawsuit filed against them for writing about possible connections between Prosecutor Sadullah Ovacıklı and Fethullah Gülen, a well-known Islamic community leader in Turkey.