journalists on trial

The top appeals court had previously overturned Güleş's sentence for the same offense.

Sixteen of the suspects have been remanded in custody since June. The prosecutors have charged the suspects with "being a member of an illegal organization."

President Erdoğan's former lawyer had sued Nazan Özcan over an article on bianet. The article did not contain "libel" and "defamation," according to the prosecutor.

Bayram was among the 11 Kurdish journalists who were detained in the October raids.

The journalist said he had been reporting from the quake-hit regions for a month. Spending the night in custody, Bulut was later released.

Ceylan Şahinli was not yet a journalist when the events mentioned in the indictment took place.

The prosecutor has alleged that journalist Fırat Can Arslan covered her funeral of killed journalist Nagihan Akarsel "in line with the organization's purposes and ideology."

Sinan Aygül had tweeted about allegations of child abuse against security, but deleted the tweets a few hours later, apologizing for sharing unconfirmed information.

The Bitlis-based journalist said he wouldn't defend himself at the court "not to legitimize the censorship law."

The journalist was facing charges because of his social media posts and reports from Syria's Kurdish-held northern and eastern parts.

Journalists in Diyarbakır called for justice for their colleagues: "Our friends are taken hostage since June 16 and still there is no indictment prepared. This is because there is no crime and there is no accusation to be made."

While the number of incarcerated journalists are significantly lower compared to the period after the 2016 coup attempt, the government is still using court cases to intimidate journalists, according to a monitoring group.

The journalist was among the 31 people who faced charges over a 2015 sit-in protest, where people were accused of forming a "human shield" for the PKK.

The BirGün journalist was put on trial because of a weekend supplement featuring Erdoğan and Bahçeli's photos with well-known figures of Türkiye's underworld.

Sadiye Eser and Sadık Topaloğlu were sentenced to prison for "being a member of an illegal organization." In its justified ruling, the court said no criminal act of the suspects had been identified but they were members of a group that is "dangerous to society."

Terkoğlu and other journalists were put on trial because of reports about an intelligence officer who was killed in Libya.

The court has accepted the indictment against the BirGün editor.

A criminal case was opened against the journalist because of a video he shared on social media.

In order to make the statements of two anonymous witnesses nicknamed Ezel and Firar "relevant," Şahin was detained during an operation that was not related to her, said the journalist's attorney

"My client took this decision not to pay the judicial fine and not accepting optional sanctions so that he can expose this sentence," his lawyer has said.