Dursun Suna, the Niğde reporter for Akit, an Islamist newspaper strongly aligned with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), was arrested and imprisoned on Jan. 13 after a two-year-and-six-month conviction given to him was upheld by an appeals court.
According to reports in Akit and the Turkish-language version of the Russian news agency Sputnik, the reporter was convicted for publishing photographs of Muammer Balcı, formerly a district governor for Niğde’s Bor district, and a woman with whom he was allegedly having an affair. Suna was tried for “disclosing images and sounds regarding private life” and convicted to two years and six months in prison.
His arrest brings the number of journalists imprisoned in Turkey to 149 according to MLSA figures. For a full list, click here.
