Five journalists standing accused of participating in “terrorist propaganda” were handed jail terms in Istanbul yesterday, bringing the total of jailed journalists in the country to over 150 since July 2016’s failed coup.

Four of the condemned journalists received 18-month sentences for taking part in a solidarity campaign with Kurdish daily Ozgur Gundem.

Ragıp Duran, Ayşe Düzkan, Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hüseyin Bektaş were jailed for engaging in the ‘editor for a day’ campaign from May to August 2016 in support of media pluralism. Ozgur Gundem’s editor-in-chief, Hüseyin Aykol was sentenced to three years and nine months on the grounds of prior convictions.