Dundar, who has contributed opinion columns to The Washington Post, left Turkey in 2016 and lives in exile in Germany. On the day of the verdict, Dundar was attacked by a gunman on the courthouse steps but was unharmed. Tora Pekin, an attorney for Dundar, said in an interview that his client would appeal the latest verdict. “To call him a journalist — and his sentence, a blow to free speech — is an insult to real journalists everywhere,” Altun wrote. Demirtas, a former leader of a pro-Kurdish opposition party, has been charged with terrorism-related offenses, which he has denied.

Source: Washington Post December 23, 2020 12:00 UTC