At the trial in Turkey, the prosecution has motioned for life sentences to three of the seven defendants in the case into the news websites of the Gülen Movement.

Ankara accuses Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, and his Gülen Movement of orchestrating the failed military coup in Turkey, in July 2016.

At the hearing in an Istanbul court, the state prosecutor demanded life imprisonment for journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak, who stand accused of “violating the constitutional order” in the country, according to BirGün (One Day) newspaper of Turkey.

Ahmet and Mehmet Altan brothers, who are under arrest, are active supporters of Armenian Genocide recognition in Turkey, and they have written numerous articles on the need for the country to acknowledge this tragedy.