Can Dündar, who is currently in exile in Germany, has been standing trial over a news report published on daily Cumhuriyet regarding the trucks of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) stopped by gendarmerie officers in Adana and Hatay provinces of southern Turkey.

In the hearing held at the İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court today, Can Dündar, was tried in absentia, was sentenced to imprisonment for 27 years and 3 months.

On November 26,2015, Dündar and Cumhuriyet's Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül were arrested on charges of being members of a terror organization, espionage and revealing confidential documents, facing sentences of up to life imprisonment under the Anti-Terror Law of Turkey.

The investigations had been launched in May, after the newspaper published photos depicting weapons transferred to Syria in trucks of the National Intelligence Organization, subject of the MİT trucks scandal.

After 92 days in prison, Dündar and Gül were released on after the Supreme Court decided that their detention was an "undue deprivation of liberty".

On May 6, 2016, Can Dündar, the editor of the newspaper, was sentenced to imprisonment for five years and 10 months for ″leaking secret information of the state″.

Dündar subsequently fled to Germany to avoid imprisonment. (ILKHA)