{"id":17729,"date":"2018-04-26T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/?p=17729"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:33:32","slug":"musa-kart-sentenced-to-3-years-and-9-months-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/musa-kart-sentenced-to-3-years-and-9-months-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumhuriyet trial in Turkey: Musa Kart sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After nine long months of a trial considered as the symbol of the erosion of press freedom in Turkey, 14 employees of the newspaper Cumhuriyet were sentenced to prison terms of between 2 and more than 8 years &#8211; including the press cartoonist Musa Kart. In particular, they were accused of aiding the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) and preacher Fethullah G\u00fclen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, after the verdict was announced, the journalists promised not to be intimidated. &#8220;<strong>You will be shamed in front of history<\/strong>,&#8221; Cumhuriyet reported on his website Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sentenced journalists will not be sent to prison pending the appeal process.\u00a0However, they are subject to judicial control and a ban on leaving the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/soutiens\/turkey-cumhuriyets-journalists-on-trial-including-cartoonist-musa-kart\/\">Read more here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine long months of a trial considered as the symbol of the erosion of press freedom in Turkey, 14 employees of the newspaper Cumhuriyet were sentenced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17731,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions\/17731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}