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Barış Yarkadaş.
Former People's Party's (CHP) MP

18 February 2019:

Former CHP MPs Facing Prison for Chanting Slogans
An indictment has been filed  against the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) former MPs İlhan Cihaner, Hilmi Yarayıcı and Barış Yarkadaş for chanting slogans at a closed hearing.

A group was not let in the court hall where the closed hearing of the "MIT (National Intelligence Organization) trucks case" took place on April 1, 2016. The group chanted slogans, "We will win by resistance," "Free press cannot be silenced" in the courthouse building during the hearing.

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The Prosecutor's Office has filed an indictment against the former CHP MPs on the ground that they supported the group who chanted slogans.

"Persistent wait has the characteristics of a demonstration"

The indictment said, "Even the visual and print media announced that the hearing will be held as a closed session, the group's persistent waiting, slogans during the hearing and clapping protests have the characteristics of 'gathering and demonstration.'"

"The defendants who are the 26th term members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) committed an offense by joining the group and staging a gathering and demonstration" the indictment claimed.

The MPs will be tried for one to three years in prison. The trial will begin in the coming days. (HA/VK)

8 February 2019:
Barış Yarkadaş given 10-month prison sentence for 2014 news story
Barış Yarkadaş, a journalist and a former CHP MP, was given a 10-month prison sentence on the charge of “invasion of privacy” in a lawsuit launched upon a complaint by former Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar.
 
The accusation stemmed from a news story published on 27 May 2014 on the news portal Gerçek Gündem, which was owned at the time by Yarkadaş.
 
Addressing the Istanbul Anadolu 68th Criminal Court of First Instance during the final hearing on 7 February, Yarkadaş said the news story for which he was indicted was published by the Cumhuriyet daily before Gerçek Gündem posted it online. He said Gerçek Gündem made a reference to the original story and that the Gerçek Gündem editor at the time who posted the news story did stand trial for the story. Yarkadaş said he couldn't be held responsible because the editor was already held responsible for the story. He also said news websites were not subject to the Press Law, although the investigation for the lawsuit was conducted in accordance with the Press Law.
 
Announcing its verdict at the end of the hearing, the court imposed on Yarkadaş a prison term of 1 year for “invasion of privacy” and reduced the sentence to 10 months for “good conduct” and deferred the sentence for five years. Source