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Former Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief in Dündar last October
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A good five years after an attack on the government-critical journalist Can Dündar in Turkey, the shooter has been convicted.
The assassin was sentenced to three years and one month probation and a fine.
This emerges from court documents that are available to the dpa news agency.
The verdict was given for threat with a weapon, willful assault and illegal possession of a weapon.
The convict shot at Dündar in front of a courthouse in Istanbul in May 2016, but missed it.
Yagiz Senkal, another journalist, was injured.
The assassin was released from custody in October 2016.
Dündar scornfully comments on the judgment
Dündar, who lived in exile in Germany, scornfully commented on the verdict on Twitter: “What doesn't exist for good judges, isn't there?
(...) The loving judge also applied a reduction in the sentence for good conduct and suspended the sentence on probation.
The man is free anyway.
A note to all assassins. "
Last year, Dündar was sentenced in absentia to 27 years' imprisonment for reports of the involvement of the Turkish secret service in arms deliveries to Islamists in Syria.
The former editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet left Turkey in 2016 and now lives in Berlin.
Trials are still pending against him in his home country.
fek / dpa