The lawsuit had been filed against journalist Çağdaş Kaplan for “membership in a terrorist organisation” on the grounds of his alleged relation to news channels and internet portals of the terrorist organisation” in 2010 when he was working at now-shuttered DİHA news agency. Kaplan was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment for this charge by the 2nd High Criminal Court of Sakarya on May 2018.