Canan Çoşkun Coşkun, Cumhuriyet newspaper reporter was on trial for a news story dated 27 November 2015, titled “Erdoğan buyurdu, gazetecilik tutuklandı” [Erdoğan ordered, journalism got arrested], in which she reported about the arrests of Cumhuriyet’s former Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and Ankara representative Erdem Gül on November 24, 2017.
The 40th Criminal Court of First Instance of İstanbul acquitted Coşkun of the charge of “insulting the President of the Republic”