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Vural Nasuhbeyoğlu.
Evrensel’s former responsible managing editor.

20-Sep-2018 20:39

15 September 2018:

Nasuhbeyoğlu and Koşar fined for “insulting the president” 
 
Also on 13 September, Evrensel’s former responsible managing editor Vural Nasuhbeyoğlu and former owner Arif Koşar were convicted of “insulting the president” and sentenced to a fine of TL 7,000 each.
 
Nasuhbeyoğlu and Koşar did not attend the hearing at the 2nd Istanbul Criminal Court of First Instance, where they were represented by their lawyers Devrim Avcı and Mustafa Söğütlü.
 
Following the completion of the defense statements, the court announced its verdict, sentencing Nasuhbeyoğlu and Koşar to 1 year and 2 months each for “insulting the president.” The court then reduced the sentences to 11 months and 20 days “in consideration of the defendants’ good behavior during proceedings,” and then commuted each sentence to TL 7,000 fine.
 
The defense lawyers said they would appeal the verdict.

25 October 2016:

Newspaper editors acquitted of terrorism charges
An Istanbul court today acquitted Fatih Polat and Vural Nasuhbeyoğlu, the editor-in-chief and former responsible news editor of the leftist daily newspaper Evrensel, respectively, at the first hearing of their trial on charges of "spreading propaganda for a [terrorist] organization," and "praising crime and criminals," Evrensel reported.

The charges stemmed from a story briefly published on the newspaper's website that reported that PKK militants had taken a police commissioner hostage. The editors removed the story from the website within a few hours after it was published, after they learned it was not true. The story in question did not appear in the print edition of the newspaper.