Çetin Kurşun, an employee of the Kurdish-language Azadiya Welat newspaper, which was shut down under a cabinet decree in 2016, was arrested by a court on 21 February and sent to prison, the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reported.
Azadiya Welat was Turkey's only Kurdish-language daily. About a dozen of its employees, including those who sell the newspaper, are currently imprisoned.
Kurşun was first detained on 6 February. He was then taken to prosecutors, which referred him to a Criminal Judgeship of Peace, which in turn ruled to put him under arrest.
He was arrested on charges of "committing a crime for a terrorist organization while not being its member."
A list of the 153 media workers imprisoned in Turkey and their publications can be viewed here.
