Prosecutor seeks 15 years’ imprisonment for Can Dündar, Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül

The Republic prosecutor, making his recommendation, sought the imprisonment for up to fifteen years of Can Dündar, CHP Member of Parliament Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül on the count of knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organisation without being a member.
 
 
The severing of the cases has been ordered following objection to the joinder order passed in September. Both cases were joined on the allegation that there were actual and legal connections between them.
 
Following the joinder order, it was decided to hear concurrently the trial over the first photograph concerning the transporting of arms in intelligence agency trucks in Aydınlık newspaper and the one over the publication of video footage with the same content in Cumhuriyet newspaper. At the latest session of the trial being held at Istanbul Serious Crime Court No 14, however, objection was made by Berberoğlu's lawyers to joinder with the trial filed by Chief Prosecutor İrfan Fidan against İlker Yücel and Ceyhun Bozkurt of Aydınlık newspaper into the intelligence agency trucks news. The trial, with which there had been asserted to be an “actual and legal connection in terms of subject matter” was ordered to be heard separately.
 
The Republic prosecutor, making his recommendation, sought the imprisonment for up to fifteen years of Can Dündar, CHP Member of Parliament Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül on the count of knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organisation without being a member.