Turkey Court Jails Gunman After Attack On Opposition Journalist

An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a gunman to 10 months in jail over a 2016 shooting incident targeting an opposition journalist, but acquitted him of threatening with a gun.

Istanbul, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Oct, 2018 ) :An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a gunman to 10 months in jail over a 2016 shooting incident targeting an opposition journalist, but acquitted him of threatening with a gun.

Can Dundar, the opposition journalist targetted in the incident, who now lives in exile in Germany, condemned the penalty as absurdly light and likely to encourage further attacks.

At the time of the May 6, 2016 attack, Dundar was editor of opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper and locked in a legal battle with the authorities over his reporting.

He was waiting outside the Istanbul court during a break in the hearing when Sahin aimed the gun and fired, but was bundled away by police.

Although Dundar was unharmed in the attack, an NTV journalist was hit in the leg.

The court sentenced gunman Murat Sahin to 10 months in jail and ordered him to pay a 4,500 lira fine (750 Dollars), Turkish media reported.