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HaberinYeri.com website official Büyükçakır received a prison sentence on the grounds of a reader comment posted on the site. The comment referred to the statement that President Gül supposedly descended from an Armenian family. Büyükçakır will file a complaint.

GercekGundem.com website executive Yarkadaş was on trial because he had posted a reader comment allegedly constituting an "insult of the President". The court acquitted Yarkadaş, reasoning that he could not be held responsible for the content of the comment.

Barış Yarkadaş, publication director of the Gerçek Gündem internet site, stands trial for a reader comment which allegedly insulted President Gül. Yarkadaş said that the site does not post comments concerning the president any more. RSF is following the case up.