CHP deputy sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in espionage case

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoglu to 25 years in prison over spying charges.

Berberoglu, the first CHP lawmaker to be handed prison time since the lifting of parliamentary immunities last year, was accused of providing an opposition newspaper with video purporting to show Turkey's intelligence agency trucking weapons into Syria.

Cumhuriyet journalists, including editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul, have previously been accused by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of undermining Turkey's international reputation and vowed Dundar would "pay a heavy price."

Last year, Dundar and Gul were sentenced to at least five years in jail for revealing state secrets in a related case, and the prosecutor is now seeking an additional 10 years in prison for the two over the report on the trucks.