Turkey's main opposition party's Istanbul leader, Canan Kaftancioglu, gets nine years and eight months in prison over several crimes, including terror propaganda, and insulting Turkish Republic and its president
Canan Kaftancioglu speaks after the court verdict in Istanbul's Caglayan Court on September 6, 2019.
The Istanbul head of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party was sentenced on Friday to more than nine years for several offences, including spreading terror propaganda, according to judicial sources. The 37th High Criminal Court in Istanbul sentenced Canan Kaftancioglu to two years and eight months for inciting public enmity, two years and four months for insulting the president, and one year and six months for spreading terror propaganda.
Kaftancioglu also got additional prison time for publicly insulting the Turkish Republic and insulting a public servant during the execution of their duty.
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