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Necati Abay, a representative of Solidarity Platform with Jailed Journalists (TGDP) was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months of prison for terrorist organization membership allegations - charges that Abay claimed to be influenced by PM Erdoğan and certain media coverage against him.

Necati Abay, spokesperson of Jailed Journalists Solidarity Platform asked for political asylum from Germany, after a Turkish appeals court ordered him to serve 10-15 years in prison for being a "terrorist organization leader".

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ratified a life-time imprisonment sentence against Atılım newspaper’s editor-in-chief Hatice Duman, just as it overturned a sentence of nearly 19 years in prison for journalist Necati Abay who was also standing trial in the same case.

Law enforcement officials detained journalists İbrahim Çiçek and Ziya Ulusoy, as well as Ali Hıdır Polat, an advisor to the head of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP,) on terrorism related charges Sunday.

The Istanbul 12th High Criminal Court sentenced publisher Abay to almost 19 years imprisonment on charges of managing the MLKP organization. Former Atılım newspaper chief editor Duman was handed down a life sentence. The decision was taken to the Court of Appeals.

Just after Hrant Dink’s murder, high school student Sahin threatened publisher Abay, who had made a statement relating to the murder, with death. He has been given a fine.

Publisher Necati Abay was threatened by student Mert Sahin after making a statement on the murder of Hrant Dink. The student is now on trial.