Six staff from Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper returned to jail - lawyers


ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Six staff of Turkey's opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper were sent to jail on Thursday to serve out the remainder of their sentences from a trial on terrorism charges, two of their lawyers said.

Fourteen staff of Cumhuriyet - one of the few remaining voices critical of the government - were sentenced last April to jail terms of up to eight years and one month on charges of terrorism and supporting U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed for organising the 2016 attempted coup.

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